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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

For example...
Language: Multiple Languages 
For example, it never occured to me before how many faces there are.
There are multitudes of people, but there are many more faces,
because each person has several of them

Menschen

Oh, there are people who wear the same face for years; 
naturally it wears out, gets dirty,  splits at the seams, ...
stretches... like... gloves 

es bricht in die Falten

gloves worn during a long journey... 
They are thrifty ...uncomplicated people
they never change it
never even have it changed
Oh... it's good enough they say
... and who can convince them of the countrary?
Of course, since they have several faces,
you might wonder what they do with the others
Why, they keep them in storage?
Their children will wear them.
But sometimes it also happens that their dogs go out wearing them

ihre Hunde damit ausgehen

And why not?

Note: the English text is spoken; includes phrases from Rilke


Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Joseph Butch Rovan , "For example..." [ voice ], from Vis-à-vis, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2023-08-16
Line count: 21
Word count: 141

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