Sundancing

For the past few weeks I have been listening a lot to Kent, a Swedish band that sounds like a combination of Coldplay and Radiohead in a slightly different language, seasoned with Scandinavic nostalgy. The melody that inspired me the most (besides "Mannen i den vita hatten", of course, a song about being afraid of death, extremely well orchestrated and even able to claim originality - if only one were not reminded of "Clocks" or "Daylight") was "Sundance Kid". The name probably comes from the eponymous 1969 western "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" starring Robert Redford, basicly the story of the friendship of two outlaws who eventually die together. The song is sung about a lost friend, a complaint about the pain of the loss and the hope that the friendship can somehow be re-created in music. The last line of the lyrics in Sundance Kid reads All we did, all we felt became a song for you.

The essence of sundancing should thus be the one moment of the day when you let go of what has been, a moment when you resume your path after breathing in the magic of a few words or people. The one moment when you suspend your working condition to reconnect to being human.

I'm only putting up the choir of Sundance Kid, by Kent. The rest is in Swedish, so you probably won't understand it anyway :)

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