Jambo (Swahili-groet!)

3 weken Uganda en Tanzania in beeld :

Mijn soundtrack op deze indrukwekkende reis bestond uit veel Bill Callahan, De Kift, Arcade Fire, Nick Cave, Sage Francis, Fleetwood Mac en vele anderen, maar keer op keer greep ik terug naar het 3-delige openingssalvo van Dusk van The The :

True Happiness this way lies / Love is stronger than Death / Dogs of Lust (later mp3's)

Tekst Love is stronger than death :

Me and my friend were walking

In the cold light of mourning.

Tears may blind the eyes but the soul is not deceived

In this world even winter ain’t what it seems.

Here come the blue skies here comes springtime.

When the rivers run high and the tears run dry.

When everything that dies.

Shall rise.love is stronger than death.

Love is stronger than death.

In our lives we hunger for those we cannot touch.

All the thoughts unuttered and all the feelings unexpressed

Play upon our hearts like the mist upon our breath.

But, awoken by grief, our spirits speak

How could you believe that the life within the seed

That grew arms that reached

And a heart that beat.

And lips that smiled

And eyes that cried.

Could ever die?

Here come the blue skies here comes springtime.

When the rivers run high & the tears run dry.

When everything that dies.

Shall rise.

Love is stronger than death.love is stronger than death.

Shall rise. shall rise.