Rome - Kali Yuga Über Alles

First published at 01:22 UTC on August 30th, 2020.

Country: Luxemburg
Band: Rome
Album: The Lone Furrow
Song: Kali Yuga Über Alles
Date: 2020

Roger Scruton: one of the saddest things about the modern world is that people live in a tiny time slice which they carry forward with them. Nothing remains. The…

Country: Luxemburg
Band: Rome
Album: The Lone Furrow
Song: Kali Yuga Über Alles
Date: 2020

Roger Scruton: one of the saddest things about the modern world is that people live in a tiny time slice which they carry forward with them. Nothing remains. The centuries to them are completely dark. Just un-illumined corridors through which they stagger into a single little sliver of light.

Ben McBrady: Every great civilization has a record of a period of a golden age, when there was no war, no dispute, no lying

It's not by shunning darkness that you'll know light
not holy fields of wood alive, of stone alive
And up in the rooms of your barren house
you're reassembling language to keep realities out

I know your credentials, and I know you'll tell
In this game of reeds, in the logic of the spell
my burning attachment to contingencies
For who wills the end, may will the means

When it's only fools and firebrand
(Kali yuga, uber alles)
The books of law in the arsonist's hands
(Kali yuga, uber alles)
Pretend to know me, and I'll pretend to care
(Kali yuga, uber alles)
And nothing lasts, that hesitates out there

Time to collect the stones, and what our guards left behind
stray out of being, and out of time
I know your credentials, I know your tell
Embracing that death you know so well

jätän sinut kaaokseksi
(I leave you as the chaos)
joka ei ole enää esillä
(Which is exposed no more)
sillä olen myrskyn silmässä
(For I am in the eye of the storm)
olen sen elävä keskus
(I am its living nucleus)
olen muinainen järjestys
(I am the ancient order)
ja mikä on kaaosta
(And what is chaos)
on toisarvoista
(Is secondary)
sen maailman riekaleina
(Tatters of that world)
joka ei enää koske minua
(Which no longer applies to me)