Asa-true, Troth, Treue, Truth…
– Sagt av ”Hedningen”, 1978.
NU – en Asa-Trogen sång, en smula fritt efter John R. Cash
(från albumet ”Live at Österåker” 1973)
Some honest men spend a life time to devise
A map, some charts so others can then analyze
Those wretched desert lands where nothing can arise
except Mohammeds, Christs or faiths that we don’t need
while others get much higher pay, if only out of greed.
They pay a single man to draw their maps,
just so that they might then declare
What secret signs are in those lines
– But do they really care ?
And one line is short and one is long and another isn’t really there
For maps are abstract documents, which cannot have a soul.
They cannot tell why one man fell, while another reached his goal.
Nor can they tell why some men rebel and lose all self-control
I think ten thousand years from now,
as it was in heathen times not long ago
A better road of faith will then exist,
but which way will all of mankind go ?
Will we rise towards outer space,
or reach some new plateau ?
Will we devise a Brave New World,
a fate for us, still unknown ?
Far from this grey prison stone
the road is there for all to walk upon
but for those who falter,
still within the twilight zone…
Come, my brethren, let us guard those roads
that men just shouldn’t walk or tread
towards that final journey for the unhonored dead
Then those who sit in power
and those who hold the might
will guide the hordes of men
so that they will see the light.
And then, the single man who draws their maps
Will at last say he did his job allright.
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