in this song the clear influence of many good jazz guitarists is to be mentioned
Story behind the song
An autobiographical sketch
through my life:
it is a history of my life
but it can be actually the history of the life
of anybody of my generation who lived
similar life: Childhood 1955-1968,
21. August 1968: Invasion of the Warsaw Packt states
under the leadership of Sowjetunion and Brezhnev doctrine
then 10/1969 emigration to Vienna, Munich and Frankfurt am Main, Germany
then November 1989: Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and Fall of the Iron Curtain, parallel the Unification of GDR and Germany
Lyrics
I've been loved
(Music and Lyrics Peter Kosta copyright)
Prologue
Refr.:
I've been loved
by everybody
except of you
(4x)
1. We were like
children playing
on the playground
of life
building castles in the sand
holding future
in our hands.
2. But then, all in a sudden,
some foreign strangers
invades the land (called Czechoslovakia)
and we got separated
for a long time (20 years), do you understand me.
Refr.: I've been loved
by everybody
except of you (2x)
3. Then after 20 years
the Velvet Revolution
gave us freedom and happiness and democracy
and greed any hypocrisy reigned
in the new homeland
and envy and hate
were the modern capitalistic invaders
in our new homeland
4. So if you don't pay attention
of what you are saying and praying
and what you do
you might hurt the wrong person,
first with words, and later with weapons and arms
Refr.: I've been loved by nobody anymore
except of you, oh, baby
I have been loved by nobody no more
except of you
who carried my heart away
Twenty years ago
Refr.: I've been loved by everybody again
including you, baby
who carried my heart away.
And what about you, baby, what about you
And so I returned to my old new
homeland Germany
Epilogue:
