Darel M There are plenty of people who wish that this world would change, and we'll see that at some point. I can only hope this world would come into unity.
Free Palastine 🇵🇸 While we're at it can we stop killing each other? We shouldn't be fighting each other. We should be fighting for better living. We have an abundance of resources. We don't need oil.
Sylvian & Sakamoto = musical genius + World Citizen makes a genuine and truthful statement. Something echoed by the teachings of Jesus and John Lennon, among many others. Anyone that doesn't like it shouldn't listen with their ears, brain or heart. BUT everyone is entitled their opinion...although we should also remember ...it's a song not a political treatise or call to revolution. The comments have been random and amusing.
I loved silvian since when he was singer in the band japan i think he is a brilliant artist he is outside everything you can hear in mainstream music, he is original and have an incredible feeling to create strange and beautiful melodies and together with sakamoto it 's great, and people that listen to music just to say if it's gay or not it 's so pathetic some people are scared to be identified as gay if they listen to certain songs and obsessed with that, because they are gay in the closet
I'd not heard this before, and I'm amazed at the mainstream lyrics by which I mean they're not the usual obscure poetry one expects from Sylvian (for which I love him). It's a beautiful song and I'm surprised it never got much of a hearing elsewhere. I presume it was never released as a single because had it been, it might have made a notable impact on the charts. Still, there you go. Funny old world.
haters gonna hate. me, i think this song is beautiful. nothing too fancy on the lyrics and i'm not a big fan of it, but the sound's there and.. well, david sylvian's voice makes everything better, so..
@FerranK68 Thanks for posting your view, it is much appreciated! :) I took part in a civil protest in Buffalo, NY, today and hope to participate in many more. I am thinking using some of the lyrics from this song on posters to hold up during future demonstrations. :)
Heard this song for the first time just before the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Makes you think about how much things have changed...and how much they haven't. :(
@MattBauer09 Me too Nine Horses is brilliant, I went on to check out his other solo stuff and I thought I will never be able to understand what he is doing or get into it. I finally discovered songs like Forbidden Colours, Riverman and Blackwater which are absolutely fascinating, however there is a portion of his songs that I know I will never like...
99Nars The other "World Citizen" was subtitled "(I won't be disappointed)". They were collaborative works with the great Ryuichi Sakamoto. Long and short versions of each song were released by Warner Music Japan on an EP of the same title in 2003 and again in 2004, with an added remix by Ryoji Ikeda, on Sylvian's samadhisound label.
@mufflejoy If you pay attention to the lyrics, referring to the 9/11 WTC attacks: "Why do they hate us?" Islamic Jihad? No, it's because we are self-centered capitalists! But I agree, "despot" is not the right term. How about "nutjob?"
@smurfblood Regardless of views, I think the lyrics of the song are very poorly written, they sound very childish I love David Sylvian and what he does but sometimes I just don't understand it! I guess that's part of the attraction maybe
@gormarx Yeah, I'd seriously doubt that Dick Cheney's listening, nor care if he was. I also doubt that he's a follower of a political ideology that went out in the '40s.
+Ocelot Shalashaska Sometimes i see the sky and ask to myself what is wrong whith the humanity? Jay Z, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga?, i have a theory if all the world would listening music like Sylvian you know maybe can be a better world.
This song is truly a lament about how far short humanity has fallen from its ideals. But the song's sound form is a thing of lasting beauty.
Darel M There are plenty of people who wish that this world would change, and we'll see that at some point. I can only hope this world would come into unity.
True, and I often revisit it.
Fallen? It has never risen.
this is music and a real artist we need more david sylvian
Mastery dedicated to Truth. How brave. How beautiful.
Sakamoto + Sylvian = superb!
Free Palastine 🇵🇸
While we're at it can we stop killing each other? We shouldn't be fighting each other. We should be fighting for better living. We have an abundance of resources. We don't need oil.
this song has the feeling of being an ending credits scene for a great movie about saving the world.
(Good ending)
Sylvian & Sakamoto = musical genius + World Citizen makes a genuine and truthful statement. Something echoed by the teachings of Jesus and John Lennon, among many others. Anyone that doesn't like it shouldn't listen with their ears, brain or heart. BUT everyone is entitled their opinion...although we should also remember ...it's a song not a political treatise or call to revolution. The comments have been random and amusing.
well, captain Yonoi ...
I loved silvian since when he was singer in the band japan i think he is a brilliant artist he is outside everything you can hear in mainstream music, he is original and have an incredible feeling to create strange and beautiful melodies and together with sakamoto it 's great, and people that listen to music just to say if it's gay or not it 's so pathetic some people are scared to be identified as gay if they listen to certain songs and obsessed with that, because they are gay in the closet
RIP Ryuichi....
I think Sylvian is brilliant as everyone he works with!
I'd not heard this before, and I'm amazed at the mainstream lyrics by which I mean they're not the usual obscure poetry one expects from Sylvian (for which I love him). It's a beautiful song and I'm surprised it never got much of a hearing elsewhere. I presume it was never released as a single because had it been, it might have made a notable impact on the charts. Still, there you go. Funny old world.
Angel Voice!!!!
Che cantanti sublimi !Possiedo una collezione di vinili con i loro brani e la considero preziosissima
Deep, very deep. Love it.
Questa canzone ha un'atmosfera veramente eccezionale (come d'altronde tutte le canzoni del duo in questione).
LOVE IT!!!
GRAZIE DAVID SYLVIAN...
haters gonna hate. me, i think this song is beautiful. nothing too fancy on the lyrics and i'm not a big fan of it, but the sound's there and.. well, david sylvian's voice makes everything better, so..
Hybrid sent me here, David Sylvia and Ryuichi Sakamoto are a pair of genius?
Thanx for this.. Didnt know this song until know.
Wow! Wonderful and true.... or I should say sad and true....
@FerranK68 Thanks for posting your view, it is much appreciated! :) I took part in a civil protest in Buffalo, NY, today and hope to participate in many more. I am thinking using some of the lyrics from this song on posters to hold up during future demonstrations. :)
Great song, thanks!
Brilliant song
Heard this song for the first time just before the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Makes you think about how much things have changed...and how much they haven't. :(
Fabulous guys.
brilliant
There are songs I like or love to hear but this is a song I need to hear.
If more of us arrive (soon) to Sylvian social counscience, empathy and goodness. our home, this wonderful planet, maybe will have a chance. .
If you like this, check out 'Talk Talk', also from the 80's.
His world is suffering
Her world is suffering
Their world is suffering
World citizen ...
Real real... so real...
Its biutiful music,
As ever class
@MattBauer09 Me too Nine Horses is brilliant, I went on to check out his other solo stuff and I thought I will never be able to understand what he is doing or get into it. I finally discovered songs like Forbidden Colours, Riverman and Blackwater which are absolutely fascinating, however there is a portion of his songs that I know I will never like...
I'm with you bro.
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@gormarx I can hear the PSA now, “Every time you stop at a gas station, you’re filling your tank with fascism.”
that's four - this, hearbeat, forbidden colours, bamboo music.......
@gormarx "not one life is taken in my name".... I'm glad Obama didn't take that line to heart.
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semplicemente favoloso
Davian wrote two songs with the title "world citizen"? huh...
99Nars The other "World Citizen" was subtitled "(I won't be disappointed)". They were collaborative works with the great Ryuichi Sakamoto. Long and short versions of each song were released by Warner Music Japan on an EP of the same title in 2003 and again in 2004, with an added remix by Ryoji Ikeda, on Sylvian's samadhisound label.
@ALanSaidTrujillo "This world is suffering/ our world is suffering." Read Adorno.
magia!
...Part of me thinks that the world hardly deserves one Sakamoto/Silvian duet...but TWO???
@MattBauer09 you should add Sylvian's "Secrets of the Beehive" album. a masterpiece.
@gormarx "Yeah" means I agree. But why do you think Dick Cheney is a "fascist?" I'm curious... kinda
would like to find this version with the same lyrics.help?
@cesitarmc small but efficient
@smurfblood - You'd rather lyrics not say anything or anything you don't disagree with?
@mufflejoy If you pay attention to the lyrics, referring to the 9/11 WTC attacks: "Why do they hate us?" Islamic Jihad? No, it's because we are self-centered capitalists! But I agree, "despot" is not the right term. How about "nutjob?"
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@lochead1 Perfect example of how the homophobes will be bread out of civilization!
@smurfblood Regardless of views, I think the lyrics of the song are very poorly written, they sound very childish
I love David Sylvian and what he does but sometimes I just don't understand it! I guess that's part of the attraction maybe
yeah its not the most poetically abstracted lol and then on top of perfectly abstracted instrumentals it becomes something really quite.. something
@gormarx Yeah, I'd seriously doubt that Dick Cheney's listening, nor care if he was. I also doubt that he's a follower of a political ideology that went out in the '40s.
@smurfblood small mind
Why there is no "nigga, pussy, bitches, money, weed, sex and drugs"
Oh I forgot I'm listening some real unique expensive music.
+Ocelot Shalashaska Sometimes i see the sky and ask to myself what is wrong whith the humanity? Jay Z, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga?, i have a theory if all the world would listening music like Sylvian you know maybe can be a better world.
IGETTHUMBSDOWNALOT1 I know I was just being ironic
Emily Brunhilde my God what an insensitive moron
I can respect these guys as artists, but with such horribly trite lyrics, David's sounding like a left-wing despot.