the last leviathan
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
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THE LAST LEVIATHAN
Coproduction : JIMSIM/SiGGYSTERN (o:
My first two recorded songs I dedicated to peace and harmony in our world,but this song is different I love peace but I see the opposite all around me, this song (witten and composed by ANDY BARNES,copyright FRIENDLY OVERTURES 1986) expresses what I feel about us humans exploiting our world so much and make that one species after the other is endangered and under threat of extinction,but I also sang it because I wanted to express,how I feel about so much anger and hate that so many here on YT have for one another and which makes me sad!...
Having said that these were my motives to why I recorded this particular song, I again dedicate it to my deepest hope that there is more harmony and peace amongst all of us!!!! (I can´t help it (o:)....
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LIST OF THANK´S !!!
First of all to JIMSIM / jimsim3 , who has created this film with a looooot of patience and much gift in creating the film to be as both he and I felt this whale!...
Many thanks from both of us to the following:
dj-chorno, Acclivily, Suonho, Reinsamba, Black-boe, Genghis, ERH,
Digifishmusic, Luftrum, Featoper, juskiddik. davidou, pushtobreak,
plagasul, reinsamba, jimsim......and Freesounds.com great web
page with good sounds, thanks you guys you all are brilliant.
Vielen Dank auch Dir Bertl (o:!!! Ohne Dich würde ich keines meiner Lieder je in´s Netz gestellt haben (o:
plus thank to the good old beeb (BBC) for making just the best programmes ever.
Jimsim and Siggystern
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Lyrics:
My soul has been torn from me and I am bleeding,
my heart it has been rent,and I am crying,
all beauty around me fades,
and I am screaming
I am the last of the great whales,
and I am dying
Last night I heard the cry,
of my last companion,
the roar of the harpon gun
and I was alone
I think of the days gone by
when we were thousands
and I know that I soon shall die,
the last Leviathan.
In the morning the sun arose
crimson in the sky
the sea was the colour of blood,
and I did sigh,
I went up to take a breath
It was my last one.
From the gone came the roar of death
and now I am gone
And now that we are all gone
there is no more hunting
the big fellow is no more
it´s no use lementing
what race will be next in line
all for the slaughter?
the elephant or the seal,
or your sons and daughters
My soul has been torn from me and I am bleeding,
my heart it has been rent,and I am crying,
all beauty around me fades,
and I am screaming
I am the last of the great whales,
and I am dying
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This song is a very special song to me!!! I learnt it when I was on a voluntary work camp (SCI) on a small Scottish Shetland island (Fair isle). I was there together with other volunteers to help the farmers with their work. On the first day the people of the island gave us a welcoming party,and and there was a lot of singing. A woman from the island sang a song to us,which I liked very much. I went to her and asked her what is this song about and she answered instead do you want to learn it.I was startled! I had always loved to sing but had not done so for several years (ever since I was in a commercial collage where art ment nothing) I had forgotten how much I loved singing and was actually afraid to sing in public..but through her I learnt this song, when I came home to the other volunteers they were asking me, what did you learn to singand I told them,they wanted me to sing for them,but I was afraid so to make it more comfortable for me, I put a candle on the floor and kneeled before the candle (it helped that there was no electricity after 10 p.m.) so it was dark all around me,I started to sing this song, and while I sang it, I suddenly realized that I felt a connection I suddenly was the whale, and I could express what I felt about what befell my brethrens.this song made that from being afraid of singing in front of people or even just aloud, I found my voice again and ever since than I have been singing, so this song is connected to my own rediscovering my inner voice and I am very thankful for it.
May there be peace throughout the whole world!
Stunning work beautifully wrought, full of passion, and a real sensitivity to the world of the whale -its dignity, its natural beauty...A haunting message, but thank god we still have our southern humpbacks here in Australia....Thousands of them travel our coastlines each year.... And to see them in the wild is something that cannot fully be expressed in words...Thankyou for this...XX
Absolutely stunning, haunting and heartbreaking, we are so stupid and greedy.
Haunting....beautiful sounds and visuals *****
Thank you for sending on.
How can I purchase a copy of this recording? I would like very much to dance to it in an upcoming show in which I am representing the spirit of the whale. I also would just love to have it as I adore the song - what a beautiful, haunting production.
"Viele Zeitalter der Liebe wären notwendig, um auch nur annähernd auszugleichen, was wir Menschen an unseren älteren Geschwistern, den Tieren, verbrochen haben."
Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz
Very Very beautiful..
my goodness, soul touched.
~ Melania
What a beautiful haunting sad sad lament, we need to take note of this, these mammals are totally amazing 😲
I looove it. It's beautiful. Thank you very much.
I need to come again & again for this piece.
Liebe Siggy!
...........mir fehlen die Worte, ich sehe dieses fantastische Video das erste mal.
Deine Stimme ist verzaubernd, rein und wunderschön, ..ein Engel könnte nicht schöner singen!
Atemberaubende und interessante Produktion, vielen Dank!
Gott schütze diese liebenswerte Wesen!
@NamaSika
Thank you Sis ((Tara)) !!! Wow
Beautiful video and song / awesome message
Thank you also SiggyStern
Peace
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omg!|!!
omg!!
Siggy....again I am in awe of your poignant, beautiful voice...
and what your message is.
I can 'feel' what you sing.
I don't know what else to say....I can't write anymore....I'm crying.
Thank You!
This made me cry. Why must man always destroy such beauty for profit? Jim this was sad and beautiful very emotional for me. Maybe some day man will see the spiritual side of this life and act accordingly. We can only pray it's not too late when they do.You n Siggy have done a wonderful job here. 5 *s + fav as always
Lowkey answered your own question there...
Stunning. Another tear shed....
i still need tea listen to it few mer times. for some strange reason it sends shivers doon me spaine.
Just wanted to let you know I haven't forgotten you - the performance is at the end of this month. This performance and arragnement of this song is just as inspirational and heart-rending now as it was month ago when I first found it. My silks are ready - as soon as I have a copy of the video I will share it with you. Thank you so much for the permission to use it in my performance!
Sometimes when I think there is no more ambitious music here on YT, you put something ^_^
WOW! Thank you for posting.
They are truly magic to see, and they come to see us, dive under us, romp and frolic around our whale watching boats etc... I have written a poem which I have entered in the Peter Porter Poetry Prize 2011 competition here in Australia...Wish me luck. I have tried to share that magic with poem...Not easy, believe me. Cannot share it here, as it has to stay pristine and unpublished for the comp until the judging in April. It is titled WILD...In the meantime, we can enjoy your lovely video...
I love this version of the poignant Andy Barnes song. I can't think of anything really to add to what has already been said about this necessary song, so I just would like to ask Andy or 'Siggy Stern' who is this female singing an exquisite version, very atmospheric and the best version I have heard so far.
Hi Pauline, I never saw your question and it is (only) 8 years ago that you asked it, it is my voice (Siggy), it is a very special song to me and I felt very happy that I could record it. All the best Siggy (short for Sigrid)
beautiful siggy!your voice is beautiful!!!
That is absolutely beautiful :o)
We as humans are monsters
This made me cry...
Trully magnificent!
so cool song
You should try to put this on a CD and have it sold by an orgnization trying to save the whales. It is a good song and would help for a good cause. I'm sad i can not get a copy to put on my ipod :(
Thanks, Siggy..will do...
Re the removal of the comment ..I made a mistake by duplicating my last comment..Sorry about that...
@SiggyStern ta failte romhat
Blue whale sox bob they died out a few million years ago
Erst wenn der letzte Baum gerodet, der letzte Fluss vergiftet, der letzte Fisch gefangen ist, werden die Menschen feststellen, dass man Geld nicht essen kann...