Epicurean Music - Modern / General

Quote from Pacatus

I still cannot listen to this without clapping / dancing / drumming …

Pacatus you just gave me 5 minutes and 20 seconds of great pleasure! Thanks

Quote from Godfrey

Being of a certain age, this immediately reminds me of a similarly titled song by the Animals.

I thought of the same song!

Genre: Sursilvan Romansh Rap
Artist: Liricas Analas
Title: Siemis
Year: 2006
Label: Eisbrand

[Refrain]
We give you wings and take you with us into the air, out of this confusing, barely real world, filled with beautiful colours. There are so many clear paths in this abstruse world made of numerous fables.

[Chorus]
Imagine that you had the gift of creating your own wonderland where everything can be remodelled. It would be like a matrix. You could write your own script and be sure that it would be fantastic. I imagine
what a country it would be. Without pollution, sadness, certainly without a single war. Wealth would be fairly distributed and every time I didn't like something I would make a small change. The moon would appear twice in the sky on request. Once as a half moon and then as a full moon, accompanied by the wind, which announces the new day with song and promises that it will once again be a pleasant day. There are no limits to our imagination, so anyone can join us on this journey. journey with us. We call on each and every one of you: come with us, come with us!

[Refrain Repetition]

[Chorus]
I dance with the angels and rise up with my protector. I hear flowing melodies from a flute. Notes fly all around as big as trees and, walking through the landscape, I encounter different things, elegant figures with extravagant structures, caricatures indicative of the hours of subreal ideas that appear to each of us and spread in our head as a reflection. It is so beautiful to see pictures within pictures, so nice to perceive them. Those that you have painted yourself, full of colour, but without black. Simply what you like and what you consider as your own secrets. For me, dreams are like mental refreshments, so real and yet and yet so unreal as soon as you wake up. They are beautiful moments that you keep. I see myself as a king in a castle, surrounded by splendid wreaths and with a cloak around my shoulders, I say to you now:

[Refrain Repetition]

[Chorus]
I call upon ravens and snakes, reach out to cows and worms, remove little men and women and tear out boundary stones. I lift everything with me into the air, upwards into the warm wind of the dreamed world – you have dreamt in vain if you don't dare! Who doesn't dream of stretching out their arms, rise up and feel the wind in their face. Moving dreams consist of a hallelujah, tiredness and a marvellous mattress. Do not allow the smoke[sic] to decide what you want to dream, such that it ends in a damned riddle. A dream comes and goes. It only depends what the content means to us. Can part of our dream finally be realised? Excuses kill our clear goals faster than we can retreat into our false worlds.

[Refrain Repetition]

My comment:
I interpret it as a song about purely mental pleasures. There are three minor references, which can be considered Christianist; however: I dismiss "halleluja" as being due to lyrical/poetic constraints, and an everyday, secularised exclamation of joy. "Angels" and "protectors" I read as non-religious labels of certain archetypes of imaginary friends / inner helpers. The English language sample ("You know, they say that dreams are real only as long as they last.") is a homage to the 2001 movie Waking Life, which "explores a wide range of philosophical issues, including the nature of reality, dreams and lucid dreams, consciousness, the meaning of life, free will, and existentialism." (WIkipedia)