The lyrics are pretty self-explanatory to me, but they might be hard to understand for someone who has never lived in a country marked by communist regime.
I was born in 1989 in Slovakia, in the year when so called "Velvet Revolution" took part in our country and that was the year when the communist era ended, so it's true that I don't remember anything about those dayse, nevertheless I can still feel some kind of "ghosts" of socialism everywhere - in schools, office buildings, on the streets. There is still something in the minds of people, red flags might have gone, but "the sorrow, humiliation" and all the feelings remained.
To, me, this is the "death of the nation" - that line is so true - and it will take few generations for all the "dead" nations to live again... but we've got to move on... no one can take back what has happened, but we can still learn from it. Actually, the whole world should learn from it. This song reminds me of how even the best ideals can easily turn into a reign of tyranny.
The lyrics are pretty self-explanatory to me, but they might be hard to understand for someone who has never lived in a country marked by communist regime.
I was born in 1989 in Slovakia, in the year when so called "Velvet Revolution" took part in our country and that was the year when the communist era ended, so it's true that I don't remember anything about those dayse, nevertheless I can still feel some kind of "ghosts" of socialism everywhere - in schools, office buildings, on the streets. There is still something in the minds of people, red flags might have gone, but "the sorrow, humiliation" and all the feelings remained.
To, me, this is the "death of the nation" - that line is so true - and it will take few generations for all the "dead" nations to live again... but we've got to move on... no one can take back what has happened, but we can still learn from it. Actually, the whole world should learn from it. This song reminds me of how even the best ideals can easily turn into a reign of tyranny.