Lyrics - Laibach-apologie by Laibach

Seit wann,
Soehne der
Wahrheit, seid ihr
Brueder der
Nacht?
Was hat eure
Haende blutrot gemacht?
Der
Ausbruch in der
Nacht ist die
Bluete des
Leids, mit ihr kann nichts entschuldigt sein.
Nicht zerschlagen laesst sich der
Luegenaltar, der
Altar der die
Form vervielfacht immerdar.
Unbeflecktes
Bildnis,
Lichter ohne
Pein,schauriger
Naechte
Schutz allein
Des
Geistes
Kinder sind wir und
Brueder der
Nacht, deren
Versprechen nicht zustande gebracht.
Wir sind schwarze
Geister von dieser
Welt, besingen des
Kummers verrueckte
Gestalt
Die
Erlaeuterung ist die
Peitsche, und du tropfest
Blut:
Zum hundertsten
Male zersplittert der
Spiegel der
Welt, eure
Mueh' ist vergeblich; wir haben die
Nacht ueberwunden.
Unsre
Schuld ist beglichen und unser das
Licht(
Laibach
Apology
Since when, sons of
Truth, are you brothers of the
Night?
What has made your hands blood red?
The outbreak in the night is the flower of pain [?], nothing can be excused by that.
The altar of lies will not be broken, the altar that multiplies the form forever.
Immaculate portrait, bringer of light [?] without pain,only protection for horrible nights
We are children of the ghost [spirit] and brothers of the
Night, that does not keep its promises. [?]
We are black spirits of this world, we extol the mad shape of sorrow
The explanation is the whip, and you drip of blood:
Break the mirror of the world for the hundredth time, your hardship is in vain; we have defeated the
Night.
Our debt is paid and ours is the light)("
Laibach-
Apologie" (or "
Apologija
Laibach" as the
Slovenian originalversion is called) was written in 1982 by then frontman of the band,
Tomaz
Hostnik, who committed suicide in
December that year.
I believe it was hissuicide note.
It doesn't appear as a song on this album, only as a poem(translated into
German) in the
CD booklet, but it appears on at leastthree other
Laibach albums.
A live version is found on "
Baptism -
Krst
Pod
Triglavom" (their score for a theatre production).
A studio version isfound on "
Trans
Slovenia
Express", a 1994 collection of
Slovenian bandscovering
Kraftwerk songs, and on the 1987 album "
Slovenska
Akropola",released in former
Yugoslavia only.)(
There is a much better
English translation in the book "
Neue
Slowenische
Kunst", but
I don't have it.)

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