A good friend of ours, Roman Vitkovsky, is quite famous … he made a break into Hollywood sometime ago and his music has appeared in big movies. He also gigs with a top Slovak band …
But he is in fact a real, good old fashioned travelling troubadour who is known to make journeys across the Spis region of this castellated and rolling country on the back of his lily-white horse…
Now, like so many across Europe, he is in lockdown … in his isolated ranch-like home 50km from the tiny mountainside city, Poprad, where Andrea and I are in virtual lockdown.
He record this song on the spur of the moment on his phone… it is about coronavirus, it’s about isolation, it is about hope and all the other emotions we are going through. And it is about hope.
Here are the lyrics in both Slovak and English
Look around
look around and see,what we become today
it could be brand new start,it could be all the end
the world we use to know,is falling all a part
everything has changed,every town is down
but i know god will help me
he ll carry my through this days
i know he wont forsake me
so i’m praying for my brothers and sisters all out there
look around and see,where we have gone so wrong
that plague is coming down,like many times before
like many times before,old wind was blowing dust
i’m praying to the lord,this time we ll make it right.
SLOVAK LYRICS
volny preklad textu:
Pozri sa okolo seba
k comu sme dospely
moze to byt novy zaciatok
alebo koniec vsetkeho
svet ktory sme poznali
sa cely rozpada
vsetko sa zmenilo
vsetky mesta su uzavrete
ref:
viem ze boh mi pomoze
prejst cez toto vsetko
viem ze na mna nezabudne
tak sa modlim za vsetkych bratov a sestry tam vonku
pozri sa okolo seba
kde sme spravili chyby
pliaga sa na nas vali
ako vela krat predtym
ako vela krat predtym
uz vietor vanul prach
tak sa modlim k bohu
aby sme to cele napravili
THESE FIGURES ARE FROM 2020 AND OUT OF DATE NOW:
A quick update on the situation in Slovakia … seven more people have been positively diagnosed with the coronavirus bringing the total to 185.
However, 3,304 tests have been negative.
The new confirmed cases:
- a man, Kramáre hospital, Bratislava
- a man, Kramáre hospital, Bratislava
- a woman, Nitra hospital, Zlaté Moravce
- a woman, Nitra hospital, Malé Vozokany
- a woman, Martin hospital
- a woman, Martin hospital
- a man, quarantine in Gabčíkovo, Horné Dobové
#SONG #MUSIC #COVID19 #CORONAVIRUS #PROTEST #IPHONE #HEARTFELTCOVID
