BORDERS

by the bottomline

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About BORDERS:

We erect borders to secure systems and prosperity, to guarantee protection for "our own" against "the outside". These borders define belonging and exclusion, they create identity. We decide to whom and to what we open them, to whom access is granted, and to whom that access is denied. This decision is moral. It determines who we are.

lyrics

the bottomline - BORDERS:

They're wounded men.
Yes, I guess they are wounded men.
They can't feel themselves anymore,
then they have to be wounded men.
Oh, they took a torturous way
to be rejected by folded arms now…

The European Union…, what do we want to be?
A place of human rights, a place of moral entity.
But our comfort is based on robbery…
They're wounded men,
while we are addicted to control again! Why…?
No, we don't do what we can…, no…, why…?

Nationalism is no answer at all!
We should arise from old thinking,
we're not more worth than them!
Yes, we are brothers and sisters!
We need to be there for them!

Who placed all the cruel orders
to build up deadly borders?

These borders show us our failure,
a deadlock in human behavior.
We are not the only ones, with the right to dignity!

credits

released August 19, 2022
BORDERS is written, arranged, and performed by the bottomline
Composition: Franzis Lating & Johannes Elia Nuß
Recording & Mixing Moritz Gröger at Hertzkammer Studio
Mastering: Michael Thumm at Bauer Studios Ludwigsburg

Supported by Initiative Musik gGmbh with Project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media

© & ℗ 2022 Neuklang / Bauer Studios Verlag

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the bottomline Köln, Germany

the bottomline is a multi-genre music project from Cologne admired for their captivating “melancholic-sweet-cathartic” sound. Franzis Lating and Johannes Elia Nuß draw on alleged contrary musical traditions and combine them with great keenness to experiment to a “highly individual, novel experience", that morphs somewhere between Jazz, Classical and electronic music. ... more