SOMETHING THAT MATTER

You woke up early this morning
And you dress so fine
You fool your self
With everything they said
About making this life
So completely comfort
Oh, but is this something that matter?

You finally fine something to do
Oh, but they said
You must earn some money
To make a living
To make something that matter
Oh, but is this something that matter?

People going to factory
People going to college
People going to asylum
People going to disco
People going to pup
People going to party
People going to bath
Oh, but is this something that matter?

This something that matter
Is this something that matter?
That something that matter
Something that matter to me
Something that matter to you
To live like you want to be
To live like I want to be
That something that matter !

(2006)

MANADO CITY BLUES*

I was came here
For a vacancy
At the beginnings of the last decade
Of twenty century
J heard KIZZ
Cursed by my cousins
As the satanic server

I was came again
At the mid of nineties
As the new student
of the faculty of letters
University of Sam Ratulangi
I learned that the New Order
Was already infiltrated campus
As a machinery hands
They treated me to drop out
When I participated in a demonstration
That protested some pungli**

I was came here to finished my degree
At the last year of twenty century
The internet is already revolutionizing
The people and the city
And I am actually shocked
By this new media
I was a man
That grown up with the typewriter

I was came here from the sea
At the mid of the first decade
Of the twenty one century
I saw my city
The city of Manado was walled
By the hyper market
And my fellow citizen:
The Minahasan people
deported back
To the highlands



*Written in English,
Read for the first time with rock n blues
In Malendong Rock Concert,
Faculty of letters university of Sam Ratulangi Manado,2002

** A type of corruption in the New Order’s era

THUS SPOKEN THE MESSIAH * V

For over the years
This land is the witness

Close up of the death bodies
Victims of war
Hidding between its though soil

For over the years
This land is the witness

Over its broaden sea
Man of war voyage through
Carry away those who fights against the tyran
Over the cruel banishment

For over the years
This land is the witness

The killing of the demonstrators
By the government of this country

For over the years
This land is the witness

I shout out loud
And wrote this to you
Those who suppressed in slavery
To fight against the tyran
Tyrany will fall down
Let’s unite and destroy its power !





*Translated by Angga L. Setiono

THUS SPOKEN THE MESSIAH *

III

Rise against the crush
Those bornservants under the yoke
Listen to the voices of the earth
Lifted up your heel against the tyran


Behold,
I urge thee to fight
Accepting deliverance
Before darkness cover the light


Most assuredly I say to thee
Any of those to obtain a better resurrection
Redemption is thee
Not the tyran !





* Translated by Angga L. Setiono

YOUR EYES NOT US*

There,
In your sight
We are not more than
A splnter leaves
Dashed against the wall
Vanished in the great storm


There,
In your sight
We are not more than
A poor miser branch
Collided against a strong wall


But
There on our sight
You are not more than
An old enfeebled wall
A little while longer to ruin
Even by a tiny little stalk




* Translated by Angga L. Setiono

BALLAD FOR ANNIE MARTHEN ESTER

When I was just a young student
At one of the university of this country

There were some people here
That taught me a lesson :
To live with the ruled of this institution

But how can I live with this ruled
If it enchained me like an animal

Oh, I need a freedom to be a man !

TOMOHON CITY BLUES

I was born in here
It was thirty years ago
You know the world
Was burned in the cold war

J was born in here
In the fourth of march
You know the students
Marching with the silence opposition

I was born in here
You know in the highland
The Touna’ass and the Walians
Was hunted by the church

I was born in here
And now I come again
I see the city light
Well, this is the city without the wall

I was born in here
And now the new generation was born
This is for you,baby, I sing
Tomohon city blues

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on stage
stone free
in blues