Text:
"Snot-Nose"

Lyrics:

Are you slumped on the ground?
Does the bottle call your name?
While the sick world all around spins and spins?

Are you indulging in this show
Of your valiant suffering?
Did you crawl yourself home on hand and knee?

Poor little child of mine
Shall I hold your whip?
While fashioned out your crucible
You pour your molten punishment?

Are you vicious as a dog?
Unloving and unloved?
Prowling through the alleys and the slums?

Will you solemn walk the plank?
Will you dive into the sea
With a canon strapped upon
Your bended knee?

Poor little orphan boy
Shall I loose that tourniquet?
While in distress you quick inject
Your bitter little medicine?

But surrounded all in carnage
And its wet nurse, bravery
Isn’t there a rose in no man’s land that’s wonderful to see?

Are you shivering in the cold
With a darkness in your eye?
Are you dirty in your habits,
Pure of mind?

And if something now should happen
Will murder be your crown?
Will you wear the title?
Bear it true and proud?

Poor martyred saint!
Are you enjoying your despair?
Strapped below your crucifix
Atop the flinted stair?

And surrounded all in carnage
And its wet nurse, bravery
Isn’t there a rose in no man’s land that’s wonderful to see?

Komposition – Stephanie Nilles
Klavier, Orgel, Gesang, Perkussion, Melodica, Geige und Gesang und Gesang – Stephanie Nilles
Klarinette, Kornett, Alt- und Tenorsaxofon, Tuba, Kontrabass, Gitarre, Penny Whistle, Gesang – Thomas Deakin
Bratsche – Allan Nilles

Aus der Hörspiel-Serie "Jenseits von Eden" nach dem Roman von John Steinbeck
Produktion: NDR 2021
Alle Mitwirkenden und mehr Information unter:
https://www.ndr.de/jenseitsvoneden