Cicha & Company / 'Mourning the Fading Youth' an autobiographical lament from 'TANY' album

lyrics and music K. Cicha / language: Polish
Karolina Cicha - vocal, accordion, bass / Patrycja Betley - percussion / Mateusz Szemraj - saz / Karolina Matuszkiewicz - knee fiddle from Plock
The recording was made during the festival "Frazy" in Poznań (Poland) 26.11.2019
Andrzej Kijanowski - sound & miks
film production - Eye One Studio https://eyeonestudio.pl​

BOOKING: [email protected]
karolinacicha.eu

  / karolina-cic.  .
The album TANY: https://kayaxmusic.lnk.to/TANYFB






Mourning the Fading Youth

My world and I are nearing that tell-tale day,
The so-called “mid-life,” the time of wisdom.
Yet one thing adds a melancholy tinge to this lay,
That is: wisdom may grow, but youth fades and flies away.

My cheeks are not as firm as they were,
The eyes are not that bright anymore.
I spot a white hair here and there, and the body
Seems somewhat less shapely than before.

My own tricks against age have I found,
And my epoch comes up with more remedies:
Beauticians, hyaluronan, plastic surgeries: all these
Appeal to youth, but youth is not all around.

And even if I kept all my diets conscientiously,
Practiced fitness, forced the will to exercise regularly,
Even if, from today, all bad habits I dropped,
Relentless time will not be stopped.

The only comfort against this tribulation
Is that the same affects the whole generation,
Tired, fading, contemporaries in misery,
We fight together, yet separately.

Once the game is over, the body defeated, the race
Completed, then the soul may start the DANCE!


translated by Eliza Borkowska