Ik had beloofd dat ik nog wat zou schrijven over Enigma, maar ik kan mijn informatiebron ff niet vinden. Daarom volsta ik in deze post met de teksten van de meest in het oog springende nummers van het tweede Enigma-album: "The Cross of Changes."
Het nummer 'Return to Innocence' werd een bescheiden hit in 1993/94 en heeft duidelijk New Age-trekjes. Volgens de New Age-gedachte moeten we namelijk god in onszelf zoeken.
Het nummer 'Silent Warrior' is een aanklacht tegen het christendom/de blanken, die de Indiaanse cultuur hebben vernietigd toen ze Amerika koloniseerden.
Verder is een bekend nummer 'The Eyes of Truth'. Dit voornamelijk instrumentale en in het Mongools gezongen stukje muziek is ook te horen in de bekende film 'The Matrix.'
Return to Innocence Love - Devotion
Feeling - Emotion
Don't be afraid to be weak
Don't be too proud to be strong
Just look into your heart my friend
That will be the return to yourself
The return to innocence.
If you want, then start to laugh
If you must, then start to cry
Be yourself don't hide
Just believe in destiny.
Don't care what people say
Just follow your own way
Don't give up and use the chance
To return to innocence.
That's not the beginning of the end
That's the return to yourself
The return to innocence.
I Love You ... I'll Kill YouI see love, I can see passion
I feel danger, I feel obsession
Don't play games with the ones who love you
Cause I hear a voice who says:
I love you ... I'll kill you ...
Loneliness, I feel loneliness in my room ...
Look into the mirror of your soul
Love and hate are one in all
Sacrifice turns to revenge and believe me
You'll see the face who'll say:
I love you ... I'll kill you ...
But I'll love you forever
Loneliness, I feel loneliness in my room ...
Silent WarriorLong ago, for many years
White men came in the name of GOD.
They took their land, they took their lives
A new age has just begun.
They lost their GODS, they lost their smile
They cried for help for the last time.
Liberty was turning into chains
But all the white men said
That's the cross of changes.
In the name of GOD - The fight for gold
These were the changes.
Tell me - is it right - In the name of GOD
These kind of changes?
They tried to fight for liberty
Without a chance in hell, they gave up.
White men won in the name of GOD
With the cross as alibi.
There's no GOD who ever tried
To change the world in this way.
But for the ones who abuse his name
There'll be no chance to escape
On judgment day.
In the name of GOD - The fight for gold
These were the changes.
Tell me - Is it right - In the name of GOD
These kind of changes?
Tell me why, tell me why, tell me why,
The white men said:
That's the cross of changes?
Tell me why, tell me why, tell me why,
In the name of GOD
These kind of changes