Ich weiß nicht warum, aber ich habe einen privaten Patti-Smith-Tag. Warum auch nicht. People have the power. It’s decreed the people rule. Das Volk hat die Macht. Endlich.
People Have the Power
I was dreaming in my dreaming
of an aspect bright and fair
and my sleeping it was broken
but my dream it lingered near
in the form of shining valleys
where the pure air recognized
and my senses newly opened
I awakened to the cry
that the people / have the power
to redeem / the work of fools
upon the meek / the graces shower
it’s decreed / the people rule
The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power
Vengeful aspects became suspect
and bending low as if to hear
and the armies ceased advancing
because the people had their ear
and the shepherds and the soldiers
lay beneath the stars
exchanging visions
and laying arms
to waste / in the dust
in the form of / shining valleys
where the pure air / recognized
and my senses / newly opened
I awakened / to the cry
Refrain
Where there were deserts
I saw fountains
like cream the waters rise
and we strolled there together
with none to laugh or criticize
and the leopard
and the lamb
lay together truly bound
I was hoping in my hoping
to recall what I had found
I was dreaming in my dreaming
god knows / a purer view
as I surrender to my sleeping
I commit my dream to you
Refrain
The power to dream / to rule
to wrestle the world from fools
it’s decreed the people rule
it’s decreed the people rule
LISTEN
I believe everything we dream
can come to pass through our union
we can turn the world around
we can turn the earth’s revolution
we have the power
People have the power …
s jüdischen Arztes Kurt Wohl, der Neunzehnhundertvierzig vor den Nationalsozialisten aus Wermelskirchen fliehen musste, und seiner damaligen Verlobten und späteren Frau Cläre. Sie lebten bis in die späten 50er Jahre in Indonesien im Exil und kehrten dann nach Wermelskirchen zurück, wo sie eine Wohnung in der Dürholt’schen Villa an der Dabringhauser Straße bezogen. Schon die Premiere von Boelongan im Kölner Rautenstrauch Joest Museum am siebten November war ein voller Erfolg. Alle Kartenanfragen mußten in der letzten Woche abgewiesen werden. Der Eintritt ist frei. Es wird um Spenden gebeten.
