Intermezzo: Revolutionær lyrik pt.II

I det tilbagevendende tema om revolutionær lyrik er vi denne gang nået til de amerikanske folk-punkere i Against Me! (udråbstegnet er en del af navnet). Følgende tekst er fra titelnummeret til deres suveræne plade ”Reinventing Axl Rose”.

Nærværende skribent har haft en ganske særlig oplevelse med netop dette nummer. I dagene efter rydningen af Jagtvej 69 var mange af os der havde blødt, svedt og grædt i huset igennem en del år, i en tilstand hvor begivenhederne omkring rydningen virkede surrealistiske.

Følgende nummer fandt vej til mine høretelefoner en dag kort efter rydningen, da jeg var på vej til møde med min studiegruppe, og til tonerne af dette nummer, der for mig altid har rummet selve humlen af diy-mentaliteten, gik det op for mig at vores elskede hus var endegyldigt væk. Det gjorde ondt dengang, og det gør stadig ondt i dag, men disse ord er afgørende for, at jeg stadig mener, at det er værd at booke et obskurt band til en koncert i en cykelkælder, også selvom det kun er bookeren selv og en håndfuld andre, der får glæde af det.

Under alle omstændigheder, kære læser, så byder jeg dig et intermezzo fra snak om Lene Espersen og røveriet i bankpakke 2, folkemordet i Gaza og finanskrisen i almindelighed.

“We want a band that plays loud and hard every night.
That doesn't care how many people are counted at the door
That would travel one million miles and ask for nothing more than a plate of food and a place to rest.
They'd strike chords that cut like a knife.
It would mean so much more than t-shirts or a ticket stub
They'd stop at nothing short of a massacre.
Everyone would leave with the memory that there was no place else in the world
And this was where they always belonged. 
We would dance like no one was watching
With one fist in the air.
Our arena just basements and bookstores across an underground America
With this fire we could light.
Just gimme a scene where the music is free
And the beer is not the life of the party.
There's no need to shit talk or impress
'Cause honesty and emotion are not looked down upon.
And every promise that's made and bragged
is meant if not kept.
We'd do it all because we have to, not because we know why 
Beyond a gender, race, and class, we could find what really holds us back.
Let's make everybody sing
That they are the beginning and ending of everything
That we all are stronger than everything they taught us that we should fear.”

Against Me! – Reinventing Axl Rose

Hele nummeret kan høre her:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmyVFrvcrBg