This is good version of the song, but the video is mediocre, so you might want to listen with eyes closed or simply look away. The translation of the lyrics is my own, you can easily find much better ones elsewhere on the Internet. Enjoy!
Song about the clairvoyant Cassandra
For many years and even though she was besieged
Troy had remained impregnable to the assailants,
And if the Trojans had believed Cassandra
Troy would be still standing today
Ceaselessly the crazed maiden shouted:
“I clearly see Troy laying in ruins and destroyed!”
But clairvoyants, just like eyewitnesses,
Have always been put to death by burning at the stake!
And the day when death, coming out from the horse’s bowels,
Descended upon Troy,
Somebody cried over the terrified crowd:
“It is the witch which is to blame for it all!!“
Ceaselessly the crazed maiden shouted:
“I clearly see Troy laying in ruins and destroyed!”
But clairvoyants, just like eyewitnesses,
Have always been put to death by burning at the stake!
That night, amidst the massacre, unrest and devastation
when her predictions had finally come true,
Exactly as predicted,
the crowd might have seized the perfect opportunity to inflict it’s usual reprisals
Ceaselessly the crazed maiden shouted:
“I clearly see Troy laying in ruins and destroyed!”
But clairvoyants, just like eyewitnesses,
Have always been put to death by burning at the stake!
The end was rather disappointing, though uncommon:
a certain Greek had found the maiden’s abode
and used her, not just as Cassandra,
but as a typical insatiable conqueror would
Ceaselessly the crazed maiden shouted:
“I clearly see Troy laying in ruins and destroyed!”
But clairvoyants, just like eyewitnesses,
Have always been put to death by burning at the stake!
VV
RIP
Brought many a tear to my eye.
Saker – you are okay with Clairvoyant Cassandra but not Rudolf Steiner ?
Oy {{{odessa))) style..)
Vysotskii was at the time commenting on the state of the Soviet Union
No, he was not “commenting on the state of the Soviet Union.” What an idea!
Great thinking, excellent parsing – I’ve never met an american who has heard of Georg Wilhelm H
Is it your European life that enhances your view of AMERIKA?
Very well done. the explanations very clear and understandable.
Mr. Roberts has chosen a path few venture to take it’s very commendable you have recognized this in your writings.
Thank you ! Great job!
I don’t get it! LOL, but I do enjoy the Saker. Thanks