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Mara

from Revival by CHUR

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Re-recorded, re-arranged, re-mixed and re-mastered English language version of 2009 song.

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Mara
(music & lyrics by CHUR, liner notes, and editing by AR)

It is a conversation of a dead man with Mara, the Goddess of Death. He asks her: “Did I live in the right way? Did I live defending the interests of my Kin indeed?” Mara replies, that he spent too much time and power fighting against enemies, and as a result, he managed to learn enemy customs and culture thoroughly, and at the same time he gave nothing to the culture of his own nation, and he created nothing for his progeny to be proud of.

Why are you, guelder rose, bent so low?
Why are you, mother, so sad, may I know?
Why is the Sun above me shines by black?
Why I walk barefoot and leave no tracks?

Mara, Eternal Grandmother,
Covered with a black shawl, can you talk to me?
Tell me, oh, The Grey, tell me, oh, The Wise,
How good I was fighting, how fair I lived?

CHORUS:
With no hope and no gold
With no sword and no light
For the Truth or Fraud
How well did I fight?
Did I pay my price?
Did I try to the end?
Can I look into the eyes
Of the Gods of my land?

Mara, you know everything,
So, say what is stronger - the Truth or the Lie?
The gold in our hands or the light in our hearts?
Should I obey or fight and die?

CHORUS

"Long time ago a glorious warrior fought
Against the snake with one hundred heads.
When the knight cut off one of them
Another two grew instead.

Why did you give your soul to your enemies?
Why did you sing about them?
Where’s your temple? I see only ruins
What’s left for your children?"

Mara, let me go back!
To the bright Sun, to our land!
I’ll start to build, I’ll stop to hate!
From my first day and till the end!

CHORUS

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from Revival, released November 9, 2018

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CHUR is a Ukrainian Folk Metal band with many folk instruments and mostly clean vocals.

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