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Salomo's Psalm

from THE WORDS by Schönfeld

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"The Physicists" is a tragicomedy by Swiss author Friedrich Duerrenmatt about three physicists in a mental institution probing aspects of scientific ethics and humanity. Weaved into the drama are two poems, one about space explorers lost in a hostile universe and the final 'Psalm', in which the wise King Salomo wanders a devastated earth.
The musical prologue to this space/earth Odyssey was my first, if rather unintentional attempt to compose an orchestral piece.

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Strayed into the universe
to the deserts of the moon
sank silently in its dust
some croaked far too soon

Stewed by Mercury’s lead haze
eaten by the sun on Mars
drowned in oil pools of Venus
kissed radio-active stars

Jupiter spun arrow-fast
reeked of thick methane puss
we threw up on Ganymede
hanging mightily above us

Cursing Saturn, trite nothingness
Uranus, Neptune, grey-green cold
beyond Pluto more or less
we made our last dirty joke

Mistaking Canopus for Sirius
and Sirius for Alpha Centauri
float adrift up to the depth
to the stars we’d never reach

Now we are mummies in our ship
entombed in crust of our own dirt
in our grimace no memory
of breathing mother earth

(Epilogue)
I am the old King Salomo
I once was wealthy, godly, wise
my wisdom conquered my fear of god
and my wealth was build on lies
my kingdom now forsaken
through gleaming wastelands my people go
a dying world circumvents a lonely sun
and with it poor old Salomo

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from THE WORDS, released January 20, 2021
Music by Thomas Schoenfeld and Edwin Magombe
Words based on the poems from “Die Physiker” by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Thomas Schoenfeld (vocals, guitars, bass, orchestral arrangement, drum programming)
Edwin Magombe (piano on "Epilogue")

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