Jeder Mensch

Song Cycle by Mohammed Fairouz (b. 1985)

1. The eternal source
 (Sung text)

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Today I know the eternal source of all strength. 
It is in nature, in the earth, in people who don’t 
hesitate to cast away their existence for the sake 
of an idea. They are the ones who can love. I go on 
living with my face lifted high, but with my feet 
on the ground – where they belong.

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2. Today I realized something very strange
 (Sung text)

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Today I realized something very strange. – I am not 
happy – and not unhappy. It came to me suddenly 
that I am living what only appears to be a life. I 
hold so much inside of me, I am not free – I 
suffer – but I don’t know why or what for. My ship 
is in the harbor, but it has sprung a leak.

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3. The celebration of the spirit
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“Gustav Mahler – from the struggles of abstraction, Oskar 
Kokoschka, the genius, Walter Gropius, the improviser of 
cultures and wills – And Joseph Fraenkel, the genial 
improviser … From Walter I want children – from Oskar, 
works – from Fraenkel, the celebration of the spirit that 
he never offered me. I wish that Fraenkel had moved into 
my house to live the rest of his life with me.”

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