Codex Sawubonae - a proposal
This Is Not Commerce (Codex Sawubonae - a proposal)
Lyrics and Music by Carsten Trotzkowski
This is not commerce ('cause this is charity)!
This is not adverse (it is community)!
This is where we rehearse (our integrity)!
Here your greed must disperse (into sincerity)!
How can they be so stupid, blind and cruel,
Trying making hot money out of breaking the rules
It takes only one spoiler in a hundreds of saints
To suppress all donations needed to ease the pain.
Just who told them this world is a self service shop
Where you'll fight with your elbows to get all of the crop
Just who told them on Earth only the strongest survive
That you care for your own's sake but for nobody's life.
It's so easy to tear down what the people erect
Must be fun to play puns till the artist's abject.
Must be brave when you place poisoned baits for a zest
Letting do us all work, run away with the best.
Have you really just missed what our mission shall be?
Does our site look like boot sales where you'll raise your own fee?
Is our artwork mistakable? Is all Africa free?
Is Apartheid a laugh, or is hunger a glee?
Our site shall make music to raise funds for the poor,
All the artists take part out of payroll for sure,
We build collaboration to enhance what we do
While the audience tells us what is right for a cue.
Yet some so called professionals try to make an abuse
Giving nothing from them, but taking all they can use
They place music like ads to sell for their own accounts
Like a wulf in a sheep's flock, fleece donated amounts.
Lyrics and Music by Carsten Trotzkowski
This is not commerce ('cause this is charity)!
This is not adverse (it is community)!
This is where we rehearse (our integrity)!
Here your greed must disperse (into sincerity)!
How can they be so stupid, blind and cruel,
Trying making hot money out of breaking the rules
It takes only one spoiler in a hundreds of saints
To suppress all donations needed to ease the pain.
Just who told them this world is a self service shop
Where you'll fight with your elbows to get all of the crop
Just who told them on Earth only the strongest survive
That you care for your own's sake but for nobody's life.
It's so easy to tear down what the people erect
Must be fun to play puns till the artist's abject.
Must be brave when you place poisoned baits for a zest
Letting do us all work, run away with the best.
Have you really just missed what our mission shall be?
Does our site look like boot sales where you'll raise your own fee?
Is our artwork mistakable? Is all Africa free?
Is Apartheid a laugh, or is hunger a glee?
Our site shall make music to raise funds for the poor,
All the artists take part out of payroll for sure,
We build collaboration to enhance what we do
While the audience tells us what is right for a cue.
Yet some so called professionals try to make an abuse
Giving nothing from them, but taking all they can use
They place music like ads to sell for their own accounts
Like a wulf in a sheep's flock, fleece donated amounts.
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Comment by Carsten Trotzkowski on June 27, 2009 at 12:11am -
Moin, Brian,
thank you, I am very happy the lyrics are not misunderstood - which is a danger when a songs comes from true anger, and's it's not your native language....
:-) Carsten (-:
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Comment by Brian McDonald on June 23, 2009 at 3:55pm -
Thanks for this, Carsten. You have a great ability to uncover the layers of complexity behind the thinking that drives some to only take and use such thin disguises. I'm reminded of a bit of wisdom I read once from a very wise human being (Shantideva) that goes something like this (paraphrase):
"All the joy the world contains, has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains, has come through wanting for oneself."
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Comment by Tim on June 22, 2009 at 4:36pm -
Hello Casten,
thank you for your codex proposal ! I agree !!!
Tim
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Comment by Conny on June 11, 2009 at 12:34am -
Hi Carsten, whow, der Text ist echt genial. Hoffe es hat für mich jetzt geklappt das Video der Uraufführung hochzuladen. Ist vielleicht nen Tick zu groß. Werde wohl nächste Woche mal Manuela anrufen und meinen Computer endlich zum Doc schicken. Gute Nacht Conny.
Auch die Musik ist sehr gut, wenn auch nicht wirklich mein Stil - kommt aber bestimmt gut an, das solltest du mit nem Video unterlegt unbedingt in You tube hochladen.
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Hi Carsten, bin heute seit langem mal wieder auf Sawubona gewesen. Hast du die Geschichte mit den Digital Musicians schon gesehen oder getestet? Wie geht es so, was macht die Musik?
Gruß Conny
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