August 3, 2008

• Death of an icon

   

  This from today’s news:

  Alexander Solzhenitsyn dead at 89

  The following song, one of my all time favorites, was inspired by the story of his life. 

  If you have never heard it, go download it right now and give it a listen –
  it features one of the most beautiful female voices ever, and a truly awesome piano part as well:

   

  Pays the price, works the seasons through
  Frozen days, he thinks of you
  Cold as ice but he burns for you
  Mother Russia, can’t you hear him too?
  
  Mother’s son, freedom’s overdue
  Lonely man, he thinks of you
  He isn’t done, only lives for you
  Mother Russia, can’t you hear him too?
  
  Punished for his written thoughts
  Starving for his fame
  Working blindly, building blocks
  Number for a name, his blood flows frozen to the snow
  
  Red blood, white snow
  He knows frozen rivers won’t flow
  So cold, so true
  Mother Russia-he cries for you
  
  Ooh ooh …
  Bah dah dah dah …
  
  Punished for his written thoughts
  Starving for his fame
  Working blindly, building blocks
  Number for a name, his blood flows frozen to the snow
  
  Red blood, white snow
  He knows frozen rivers won’t flow
  So cold, so true
  Mother Russia-he cries for you

  – Renaissance: “Mother Russia”

  

   

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