A great song

Otcovy děti: Než přišel On (Before He Came)




Sadly, not the whole of it. And this was the only online version I could find to share with you.

It's based on Genesis 1 - 2, 1-3, i.e. the creation story. And it's amazing. Although I guess you won't really get a chance to appreciate it, with it not being whole and being in Czech...

I listen to it from a tape my cousin lent me. I think I'll have to get this album on CD... it's going on my list of things to buy when I have the opportunity. I actually don't love all of the songs so much, but it seems it's not expensive and, oh dear, I want my own copy of this song!

Here's my attempt at translating it into English. Rhymes only where it worked... Funnily, in the refrain it does - the same way it does in Czech, except that it rhymes even more. Otherwise I preferred a more or less literal translation over any crimes on poetry I'd be able to perpetrate.

Before He came
the earth was void, and in the darkness not a tone
Then He came
and ignited a light, lit it like a lampion

Let there be light and with it His might!
And there was day, and there was night - the first day

Before He came
the air did not move, and suddenly a thunder tore the silence
Water and clouds, wind and rain
He spanned over the sky

Let there be light and with it His might!
And there was day, and there was night - the second day

Before He came
the earth was poor, there were no flowers to grow
The He came and sowed the grass
grew a tree in the garden

Let there be light and with it His might!
And there was day, and there was night - the third day

Before He came
the time did not flow, no bell did chime the hours
Just the sun and the moon, night and day
and a million of stars as well

Let there be light and with it His might!
And there was day, and there was night - the fourth day

Before He came
no heart did beat and there were no living creatures anywhere
So let the birds sing and let the fish swim
let the horses run behind the horizon

Let there be light and with it His might!
And there was day, and there was night - the fifth day

When He came there was the whole world
Let the man stand in the midst
And man built a house, lit a fire and in an oven baked the first bread

Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth
And there was night, and there was day - the sixth day

When He came, everything went silent
On the seventh day all bustle ceased
He finished his work - there is the whole world
And there are we and there is Him...