Music & Lyrics von Mats Visser
Eine Auftragskomposition für die „3. Norderneyer Gospelwoche“
Aufführungsmaterial erhältlich bei matsvisser@outlook.de.
Videomitschnitt der Uraufführung am 11. Oktober 2024 in der Inselkirche Norderney mit Mats Visser als Solist, dem Chor der 3. Norderneyer Gospelwoche und der Starfish Band. Leitung: Inselkantorin Gudrun Fliegner.
Prologue
There was peace and there was light.
Sometimes we can’t see anymore.
Sometimes there’s just the darkness…
How can we light up our days?
Is there a will? Is there a way or
someone we see the light in?
We can’t be silent anymore.
We need answers.
This is 5 Songs of Praise.
Chapter One
Chapter One. Where do we start?
When was the first time you met your God?
As a child, as a teen? At day and night?
When was the first time you needed someone by your side?
Kapitel 1. Wo fangen wir an?
Wann war das erste Mal als du deinen Gott trafst?
Als Kind, als Teenager? Am Tag, in der Nacht?
Wann war das erste Mal, dass du jemanden an deiner Seite brauchtest?
Chapter One. Where do we begin?
Let’s sing a song about forgiving and our sins
but first of all get back to the start.
Back to the first time we met our God yeah.
Kapitel 1. Wo fangen wir an?
Lasst uns einen Song übers Vergeben und unsere Sünden singen.
Aber lasst uns erst zum Anfang zurückkehren.
Das erste Mal als wir unseren Gott trafen.
Back to ourselves. The start of our trip.
Chapter One: Beginning of a partnership.
Zurück zu uns selbst. Der Anfang unserer Reise.
Kapitel 1: Der Beginn einer Partnerschaft.
1 – Beginning Of A Partnership
Last night I woke up and felt that I just miss my friend.
The only one that I can think about.
The only goal for me today is that you can hear me pray.
The only thing that I can think about.
But everytime I get nervous
when I realize you’re not by my side.
So I found a solution:
I’ll just give you my life, I’ll give you my life!
Come to me, be my guide when I’m lonely in the night
Come to me, hear my soul. Be the one that makes me whole.
Everybody wants a helping hand,
Everybody wants to understand.
You can be my friend, my lifetime trip.
The beginning of a partnership!
Last night I woke up and felt my deperate heart again.
The only thing that I can think about.
The only dream I have today is that you enlight my day.
The only thing that I can think about.
Chapter Two – Begegnung
Chapter Two. The story goes on.
Come, join the party! It’s where you belong.
Let’s see the world, the world through His eyes.
He makes me a better person, an angel in disguise.
Kapitel 2. Die Geschichte geht weiter.
Komm mit zur Party! Da gehörst du hin.
Lasst uns die Welt durch Seine Augen sehen.
Er macht mich zu einem besseren Menschen. Ein „Engel in Verkleidung“.
Chapter Two. We can’t get enough.
We always found a way of singing of love.
Like Wade in the water or Oh Happy Day
We’ll always find a way of singing to pray.
Kapitel 2. Wir kriegen nicht genug davon.
Wir haben immer einen Weg gefunden, über Liebe zu singen.
Wie Wade in the Water oder Oh Happy Day.
Wir werden immer einen Weg finden, um zu singen um zu beten.
Chapter Two: Can we find our hearts?
Can we find our hearts in the mercy of a Good God?
Kapitel 2: Können wir unsere Herzen finden?
Können wir unsere Herzen in Gnade eines guten Gottes finden?
2 – Good God – Ursprung
I see the mercy of a Good God,
You see the mercy of a Good God,
We see the mercy of a Good God
and the spirit of your soul burns in our heart!
Lord almighty tell me where have you been
when I felt so alone? (So alone!)
So I went into the preachers house –
my soul has come home.
(And then my soul has come home!)
And I went on, prayed day by day
Oh I felt still alone (Still alone!)
But I’m gonna ight ‚til the day I’m above,
because God got the power and the love!
Get out! Sing what the bible says!
Get out to pray in the river!
Get out for a living God
and the spirit of your soul burns in our heart!
Chapter Three
Chapter Three. Doubt comes in.
Everything was perfect but then you start to think.
Why is there pain? And why is there grief?
A Million people who are helpless stopped to believe.
Kapitel 3. Es kommen Zweifel.
Alles war perfekt, doch dann beginnst du nachzudenken.
Warum ist da Schmerz? Warum ist da Trauer?
Millionen hilflose Menschen, die aufgehört haben zu glauben.
Chapter Three. We didn’t come far.
Why is our God not stopping that war?
What is his plan and why can’t we see?
Is this the definition of theodicy?
Kapitel 3. Wir sind nicht weit gekommen.
Warum beendet unser Gott nicht diesen Krieg?
Was ist sein Plan und warum können wir ihn nicht verstehen?
Ist das die Definition von Theodizee?
Chapter Three. Is this the end?
I just need a talk with my good old friend.
Kapitel 3. Ist das das Ende?
Ich brauche ein Gespräch mit meinem guten alten Freund.
3 – My Old Friend – Einsamkeit
There is something in the world that I’m not gettin‘.
There is something on the earth that makes me think.
I don’t know where all these desperate roads will guide us.
I don’t know if we can save that sinking ship.
You should be the answer to all these questions I have
‚Cause you guided so many before.
And you should be my partner that I can always talk to
But now where are you?
I just wanna talk again (Let’s talk again!)
like old friends we shared all our luck and our pain.
Same place and same time
we know where to ind a hand
Oh my old friend
I promised that I will believe in wonders.
But promises are not made out of stone.
Give me a sign that I can start believing again.
And guide a way to inally take me home.
You should be solution to all the doubts that I have
‚Cause you solved many problems before.
And you should be my light that guides me through the night
But now where are you?
Chapter Four & Chapter Five
Chapter Four. We are still here.
Right now we are alone and can feel the fear.
But we have to go on. What else can we do?
No one will be harmed if we come back to you.
Kapitel 4. Wir sind immer noch hier.
Jetzt gerade fühlen wir uns allein und können die Angst spüren.
Aber wir müssen weitermachen. Was sollen wir sonst tun?
Niemand wird sich gestört fühlen, wenn wir zu Dir zurückkehren.
Chapter Five. There’s one last thing.
Lets go back to the day where it all began.
There was nothing but me and you who’s above.
I will always be your child, so please give me your love.
Kapitel 5. Es gibt noch eine letzte Sache.
Lasst uns zu dem Tag zurückkehren, wo alles begann.
Da gab es nichts als mich und Dich.
Ich werde immer Dein Kind sein, also gib mir bitte Deine Liebe.
Chapter Four and Chapter Five.
You only talk to God when you need someone by your side.
Chapter Four and Chapter Five.
Please, be my God and I will give you my life.
Kapitel 4 und Kapitel 5.
Du sprichst nur zu Gott wenn du ihn brauchst.
Kapitel 4 und Kapitel 5.
Bitte, sei mein Gott und ich gebe Dir mein Leben.
4 – I Will Come Back To You – Rückkehr
You’re one part of my story, you’re part of the whole world
We cannot forget you, some are still not heard.
You created people, so you created breath.
You created people, so you created death.
Sometimes there are hard times and nothing I can do
But no matter what will happen
I will come back to you.
There is peace, there is light.
Can you guide me through, through the night?
When the sun is shining through
I will come back, I will come back
I will come back to you.
Some people stop believin‘ and I can understand.
But we have to ind out where we can ind your hand.
I see your light in children, I see it in the sky
I see it in the ocean and when we say goodbye
Hmm…
5 – Give Love – Liebe
Oh mighty God from heaven above,
tell me why people can not give us their love?
They try to fool us again and again
Why can’t you show me, can’t you show me your plan?
Oh mighty God I’ve seen this before,
tell me why people can not give us much more?
Oh mighty God from heaven above
tell me why these people can not give their heart?
So, give me love! Give strength!
Give freedom! Give thanks!
Oh, give love! Give strength!
Give freedom! Give thanks!
Oh, give love!
There is peace and there is light.
Sometimes we can’t see anymore.
Sometimes there’s just the darkness…
But who am I to sing about hunger , pain and sorrow?
When I know nothing more than appetite?
But I can sing for them, the affected, and they can sing for me.
Then there’s also hope, light and love.
We only talk to God when we need him.
We only talk to God when we need him.
But no one will be harmed if we come back to him.
No one should be harmed.
This is 5 Songs of Praise.
