Antirationalistischer Block: September 2021

Sonntag, 12. September 2021

Today's Best Song Ever: The Visitors

I hear the doorbell ring and suddenly the panic takes me

The sound so ominously tearing through the silence

I cannot move, I'm standing

Numb and frozen

Among the things I love so dearly

The books, the paintings and the furniture

Help me

The signal's sounding once again and someone tries the door-knob

None of my friends would be so stupidly impatient

And they don't dare to come here

Anymore now

But how I loved our secret meetings

We talked and talked in quiet voices

Smiling

Now I hear them moving

Muffled noises coming through the door I feel I'm

Crackin' up

Voices growing louder, irritation building

And I'm close to fainting

Crackin' up

They must know by now I'm in here trembling

In a terror evergrowing

Crackin' up

My whole world is falling, going crazy

There is no escaping now, I'm

Crackin' up

These walls have witnessed all the anguish of humiliation

And seen the hope of freedom glow in shining faces

And now they've come to take me

Come to break me

And yet it isn't unexpected

I have been waiting for these visitors

Help me

Jemand hat zu "The Visitors" auf YT geschrieben: "We had a radio station here that played this record for weeks without telling its listeners who the band was. They were getting dozens of calls a day raving about the song and requests that it be played again. Once the station finally announced that it was ABBA, the calls stopped. People are such idiots."