The first teaser of the upcoming After Crying album “Ecce Homo” has been released – on Péter Pejtsik’s album “pro multis”. The poem “Fragment” by Miklós Radnóti that is set to music, could have been written at any time during the history of mankind…
Lyrics: Miklós Radnóti Literal translation: Gábor Barabás Music: Péter Pejtsik I lived in an age on this earth when man was so debased, he killed not only from duty but willingly for pleasure, and he believed in delusions, braiding his life with wild obsessions, as he foamed and raved. I lived in an age on this earth when to be a murderer or informant merited pride, and traitors and bandits were heroes, – and those who were retiring and silent were hated, and shunned like the plague. I lived in an age on this earth when those that spoke up had to hide and gnaw on their fists with shame, – and nations reveled in their monstrous fate as they rolled in their filth, drunk on blood. I lived in an age on this earth when a mother was a curse to her child and women were overjoyed to miscarry, and the living envied the worm-eaten dead and toyed with the poison that foamed on their table. . . . . . I lived in an age on this earth when even the poet was silent, waiting to find his voice once more – and then, there were none left to curse the world, – like Isaiah, the master of dreadful words. . . . .