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Re-recorded, re-arranged, re-mixed and re-mastered English language version of 2005 song.
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Brother Wind
(music & lyrics by CHUR, liner notes, and editing by AR)
The soul of a dying one flies with the smoke of his funeral pyre to the skies. Gods and Ancestors meet him there. His relatives collect the ashes of his burnt body into a little urn and bury it in their field. Or build a small hut and put the urn there. Or send ashes down the river to the Underground Realm. But relatives always keep together and help each other. Indeed, some of them live on the earth, others live in the sky, the third ones live in the ground, and the fourth ones live under the ground. People, Gods, spirits... All of them are Kin. It is a song of the person lying on the funeral pyre. He appeals to people, animals, grasses, the wind, and the river. He asks them to help him to finish another circle of life.
Fly, brother Wind, my unstoppable friend!
Fly, brother Wind, so high over the clouds!
Far the horizon, where Vyriy is shining,
Oh, take my dove and bring it there on your wings!
Wings of white
Are dropping our tears
On grasses of light -
The dew is salty
Flow, sister River, so fast and so clean
Into Nava’s World, deep under the ground,
Beyond the horizon, where the Black Sun’s shining,
Oh, take my raven and show it the right way to fly!
Raven wings
Are dropping our blood
On withered grasses
The dew is so red
I will go out to the field
I’ll see the path of the Old
There on the shoulders of Grandma
I will see both of my birds
So mournful eyes I will look into
She won't say a single word
Only the way she will show
Where everyone’s waiting for me
Fly, brother Wind, my unstoppable friend!
Fly, brother Wind, so high over the clouds!
Up to heaven, where the Sun reigns,
The smoke of my fire, oh, carry there!
Flow, sister River, so fast and so clean
Under the ground to the darkness of roots
Beyond the horizon, where the Black Sun’s shining
Ashes of sadness, oh, carry there on your palms!
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from
Revival,
released November 9, 2018
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