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about
Envy is a dangerous emotion that occurs when a person lacks another's quality, skill, achievement, or possession and either desire it or wishes that the other lacked it. That can lead people to commit terrible acts in order to take what others have at all costs, be it using religious beliefs with spells, pulling the rug out at work, blackmailing, etc.
This song starts with a Muslim prayer that protects against the evil eye but it’s sharply cut by someone who believes his creed is much more powerful and could potentially harm the other by casting a spell using a Quimbanda invocation.
In the first half of the second part of the song (2:25~3:30), we can clearly hear an epic fight between the orchestra and the guitar as a great metaphor for "my neighbor’s garden is greener than mine / I’m better than him" - Creating a competitive envious vicious circle.
So why is Schadenfreude the title track which is a pleasurable feeling while envy is terrible and painful? - They are often closely linked as envy creates the conditions under which Schadenfreude should occur - if a misfortune befalls the envied person.
lyrics
Innaa a’taina kal kauthar
Fa salli li rabbika wanhar
Inna shani-aka huwal abtar
No prayers, no gods, no beliefs can fight against my Exu
No talisman will hold you for long
In quimbanda I erase your name, tear your soul, shatter and crumble your pathway
Saravá magia negra, saravá a magia
Saravá! Saravá dia e noite
Saravá! Saravá dia e noite
Saravá noite e dia
Mais saravá magia negra, saravá a magia
Saravá dia e noite, saravá noite e dia
On Friday night I offer seven bottles of marafo to drown you
Seven cigars to choke you
Seven red and black candles to burn you down
How wonderful and noble you are is something that irritates me
An unfair competition that has always disgusted me since the earliest times
An insidious pathway that whenever you succeed a little something in me dies
There won't be peace, there won't be rest, there won't be silence - Si vis pacem, para bellum!
Whenever you have... I don't possess
I triumph in your misery
Whenever I possess... you become
I woe in your prosperity
Whenever you have... I don't possess
I revel in your misfortune
Whenever I possess... you become
I sorrow in your ascension
Many by your side will fall, your family will distrust and loathe you, only the gossips they'll recall
Falsified rumors to get you dismissed, I sabotaged your decisions and pranked you to feel superior
I am stronger than your belief, I am stronger than your God, I am my own God!
Wouldn't it be a shame if you'd start failing at everything?
Schadenfreude!
credits
from The Absence,
track released May 26, 2023
itSELF is:
Ricardo Falcon - Guitars
Estevan Furlan - Drums
Lyrics by Ricardo Falcon
Produced by Ricardo Falcon and Wieslawski Brothers
Recorded, mixed, and mastered at Hertz Studio*
*Except vocals - Recorded at Crawlspace Productions
Artwork by Bjorn Goosses
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