[00:18.410]Listen![00:19.750]Don't you hear[00:21.590]These mad symphonies of grievance and fear?[00:27.290]Melancholy and despair[00:30.370]Can be sensed when we draw near.[00:33.530]Some hear a violin sound[00:34.900]Others hear a man moaning in tears.[00:52.070]These fields are haunted by nature's most sombre melodies.[00:58.910]Suicidal white noise absorbing the essence[01:02.300]From light, mirth and vitality.[01:07.660]These grounds haunted by[01:09.940] Reflections from World War II…[01:20.110]Arise![01:21.240]In 1941,'42 The identity of warfare on the East Front is lugubrious.[01:29.000]There's one soldier incapable of committing sin.[01:33.890]Kept alive by his comrades thanks to his heavenly gift,[01:38.030]With a violin[01:56.080]His brilliant music[02:00.600]So beautiful and pure...[02:04.290]Shining warmth upon every soldier.[02:08.100]It helps them to endure.[02:30.600]Breath-taking melodies[02:32.870]Consuming all hate sorrow and fear.[02:37.030]These magnificent tunes are like silk for their ears.[02:42.560]And for a moment their pain disappears.[03:16.800]But this moment will not last[03:18.670]When they are baffled by another blast.[03:20.580]The enemy is near.[03:21.970]Rain of bullets[03:23.040]Killing soldiers there and here.[03:24.970]And so the instrument of peace is being silenced by the one of war.[04:00.170]It plays the music of the dead music made of lead.[04:38.280]I've had enough of this sickening war and it's murderous puppets!“[04:45.960]They don't understand[04:48.130]The language of music cannot be spoken in death.[04:53.520]I never took a life![04:55.710]Maybe now is the time to take mine.[04:58.660]In the name of music[05:00.650]Shall I cut my wrists or hang myself high by a violin string?[05:06.400]A symphonic suicide is what I shall bring!"[05:16.010]The enemy lies on the other side of the field.[05:21.340]He decides to walk straight into the fire fight,[05:24.740]Playing this dreamlike masterpiece.[05:26.960]Every soldier stops,[05:29.290]Holds his breath.[05:30.830]Not a single shot is being heard[05:32.890]During an intro for his own death.[05:39.100]For his own death[06:07.110]And when the violin bow is being lowered at the end[06:11.140]Both sides simultaneously open fire.[06:17.590]There's the corpse of the violinist lying in mud and barbed wire.[06:35.190]These fields are haunted by the funerary dirge of a violinist.[06:46.540]The funerary dirge of a violinist[06:54.360]Can't you hear his call of death?[06:57.650]Listen![06:59.220]Don't you hear[07:01.740]These mad symphonies[07:04.330]Of grievance and fear?[07:07.370]Melancholy and despair[07:10.250]Can be sensed when we draw near.[07:12.990]Some hear a violin sound...[07:15.010]Other shear a man moaning in tears.