No matter how many blog posts I write, I will always have more to say about my ever deepening appreciation for electronic music…
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Just recently, I found myself listening to a classic track, Humate’s remix of the track “Ruhe,” originally by Schiller. I first heard this track nearly a decade ago — damn, where has the time gone! — on Danny Tenaglia’s Global Underground London CD. This track has always touched me. (If you haven’t heard it, press play below, close your eyes, and enjoy.)
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The lyrics are in German, so I never knew what they meant. But I always had the sense they were expressing something meaningful, and I recently received a translation (thanks to my man Ingo Vogelmann)…
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So what are the lyrics, and what do they mean? Well, the lyrics are as follows:
“Ruhe, das höchste Glück auf Erden…
Kommt oft nur durch Einsamkeit in das Herz.”
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The English translation for the lyrics is,
“Peace, the greatest joy on Earth…
Very often comes into heart through loneliness”
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What’s also quite interesting is that Ingo told me these lyrics are an excerpt from a beautiful poem, the words of which are as follows (with the English translation in bold):
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Die Liebe kennt nichts,
Love doesn’t know anything,
sie kennt weder Tür noch Riegel,
no door, no latch plate,
und dringt durch alles sich.
and imbues everything.
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Sie ist von Anbeginn,
It (love) is from the beginning,
schlug ewig ihre Flügel,
always flapped its wings,
und wird sie schlagen – ewiglich.
and will flap them – eternally.
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I absolutely love the fact that electronic music is addressing meaningful topics like this, rather than the trite “baby, baby I love you” messages. The words are cool, and they’re perfectly complemented by the music…at the 4:38 mark in the track the music swells, and the vocals crest…simply beautiful.
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EB

Tags: Danny Tenaglia, Global Underground London, Humate, Ruhe, Ruhe (Humate Remix) - Schiller, Schiller