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Comrades, Revolutionaries, Nominal Members,
on Friday the 13th of June Phase 1 of the Dancefloor Liberation Movement ends. With the Release of our Album "Forward Ever" Straftanz is going to set a landmark. This is not the goal of our efforts and this is not the end of our Action. It is merely a staging area for the great march to come. Since the weekend of Whitsun in Leipzig, we know that our campaign is not to be ignored any more. The know-it-alls are afraid now, because they know, their credibility is lost. They announced to come in order to see "who in the world wants to see THAT". They wanted to place their derisiveness and malice at us, but they did not get to see what they expected. They saw what we all showed them: The fire of the Future in a thousand Eyes! Angry Fists raised toward the ceiling! The Idiots they expected where nowhere to be seen. Now they know that they can not continue as they did, because now it is our turn.
Dance will no longer be vertical expression of horizontal desire. It will be for its own sake and nothing more. "Forward Ever" will bring the Soundtrack to that notion. The March towards the future is not to be done alone. We are not afraid, for giants are among us. Myk Jung of "The Fair Sex", Miland Petrozza of "Kreator" and Carsten Jacek with [:SITD:] allowed us through their support to record an album as unique as our followers.
We see the world at its abyss. Despair has become a good that is easy to be sold, because it not only enables us to flee from our responsibility. It also is unjustified. Together we are better than that. We will once more give the Dancefloors shape and form, we will slash away the old plunder, drive the people of yesterday in their corner and remove the know-it-alls from a culture that is no longer their own.
Praise the Panic. Forward ever. Backward never.
Straftanz ZK
the enchantment
Straftanz Lyrics
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The lyrics of Straftanz's 'The Enchantment' capture the essence of a community coming together through the transformative power of song and dance. Through movement and expressive gesture, the members of this community become something greater than themselves, something almost supernatural. They feel elevated, as if they are now beyond the mundane world that surrounds them. This transformation is depicted as a kind of enchantment - a magical force that elevates them to the status of gods.
The lyrics describe how this enchantment transforms the sounds and movements of the community members, turning them into something more than the sum of their parts. Sound is imbued with a superhuman power, and the earth itself seems to respond to the community's collective energy. They feel as though they have become works of art, no longer simply artists themselves but now elevated to a higher plane of creativity and expression.
Overall, the lyrics of 'The Enchantment' paint a vivid picture of the power of communal expression and the beauty that can be found in transformation and ecstasy.
Line by Line Meaning
Through song and dance, we express ourselves as the members of a higher community.
We use song and dance to communicate and connect as part of a community that is on a higher level than our everyday lives.
We have forgotten how to walk and speak; even more so, we feel exalted as we are transformed into something different.
When we dance, we forget about the mundane actions of walking and speaking, and instead elevate ourselves into a new, transformative state.
Each of our gestures betokens enchantment.
Every movement we make has a sense of mystery and magic to it.
Through us, sound's a supernatural power; the same power which makes the animals speak and the earth render out milk and honey.
Our dance and music have a supernatural ability, like the power that makes animals talk and the earth give us good things.
We feel ourselves to be gods, and we stride with the same elation and ecstasy as the gods we have seen in our dreams.
While dancing, we feel like we have achieved godlike status and move with the same joy and happiness as the gods we see in our dreams.
No longer we are artists, we have become a work of art.
When we dance and create music, we no longer feel like just artists, but instead we become a living and breathing work of art.
Contributed by Nathaniel T. Suggest a correction in the comments below.