Music: D.Gildenlow/D.Magdic/F.Hermansson
'30 years ago, society believed that no price was to high, we thought that industry could come at any cost. We cannot afford to pay that price any more.'
So finally my journey ends And through this wound my soul can mend Guilt is my blood I'm being drained This is my home, I will stay... ...inside! There's always someone inside Fighting to get outside The "knowing-right-from-wrong side" Our home is inside!
I've travelled the world around In search for some Grail of mine How could I be so blind? It was always here:inside I have only some weeks to give But at last... I live [D. Gildenlow]
Life's just a line of situations A matter of occasions And mystic correlations The work of a Machine! [D.Gildenlow/Hallgren] [Hallgren]
Here in a world split to nations We fail to see the relations Between the Wheel and the Machine And of the scars we're leaving...
...inside! I swear there's someone inside Fighting to get outside Just give it all an hour By the Concrete Lake! [D.Gildenlow/Hallgren]
'I dread the day my children will ask me why. I dread the day when I will have to explain to them that people thought it was acceptable to destroy the environment so that we could have jobs. I dread the day I will have to explain to my bright-eyed Joshua, who talks to dogs and listens to the grass screaming, that we were all to busy driving fast cars, rushing our children off to day-care, and finding seniors' homes to our grandparents and listening to the ringing of cash registers.
We were all too busy to hear the grass screaming.'
Concept idea and all lyrics by D.Gildenlow 97-98
Excerpts, quotes and poems:
Spirit of the Land: At the World Uranium Hearing, David Sweeney presented this poem with these words: 'I learned that a friend and a comrade has just died of cancer. ...he was passionate against the nuclear industry and he was passionate for indigenous rights. His name was John Renshaw and he was quite an honourable man. He wrote a poem not long before he passed on...'
Inside: a quote by Mohandas K. Gandhi.
The Big Machine and Water contains excerpts from D. Gildenlow's essay 'Waterwar'.
New Year's Eve: a quote by Elmer Diktonius.
Handful of Nothing: first quote by Boake Carter and second by Alan Paton.
All quotes in Home and Black Hills are excerpts from James Garrett's speech held at the World Uranium Hearing.
Pilgrim: 'In Fire' - poem by D. Gildenlow.
Shore Serenity: World Watch Magazine.
Both quotes in Inside Out are excerpts from Lorraine Rekman's speech held at the World Uranium Hearing
Sources:
Daniel Gildenlow's studies at the University of Gothenburg (Peacework and Radiation Physichs) "Waterwar" (essay by D.Gildenlow) Several books about water written by the following writers and scientists: Malin Falkenmark, Tore Wizelius, Reinhold Castensson, Anna Wieslander, E. Correll/A. Swain, Hjart-Lungfonden and SIDA. Books about environment and war by Gudrun Utas, J.Eder/A-K.Olsen, Ken Keyes Jr., Greenpeace, P.Wallensteen, Adler/Lundstrom/Angstrom and report 3698 from Naturvardsverket.
We have used excerpts from speeches by Lorraine Rekman, James Garrett and David Sweeney (originally held at the World Uranium Hearing Conference in Salzburg 1992) with kind permission from the Poison Fire, Sacred Earth organisation which is warmly recommend as a source for further information.
I (Daniel G.) have also found much help and inspiration in Carl Sagan's 'The Dragons of Eden - speculations of the evolution of human intelligence' and the works of Douglas Adams
Recorded during spring 1998 at Roasting House Studios. Produced by Anders Theo Theander and Pain of Salvation. Mastered by Rockfile Mastering and Pain of Salvation. Artwork by Patrik Larsson/Peel Productions.
Line-up: Fredrik Hermansson-keyboards Johan Hallgren-quitars Daniel Gildenlow-vocals/quitars Kristoffer Gildenlow-bass Johan Langell-drums
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