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Ekh Lyuli Lyuli a.k.a. Neocantonist Song has several versions, all based on a traditional song that we learned from Michael Alpert. The first one, with references to Slavoj Zizek’s texts on Lenin and Lacan, is on the album “The First Unternational” (Psoy, Kahn and Oy Division, 2008); the second one, retelling Alain Badiou’s “Ethics”, is on “Dicunt” (Psoy and Oy Division, 2013); the third one, with reflections on Facebook and Internet, has yet to be released. The original song, set to a Russian folk tune by cantonist recruits under Nicholas I, describes day-to-day religious obligations of a Jew (which in new contexts metaphorizes what Paul Tillich calls “the ultimate concern” and “the deep”). Each remake features a different Russian rap insert addressing philosophical questions of nowadays. The current rap is mostly similar to the “Badiou version”, but contains significant discrepancies and additions. This version was presented once only in March 2011 in Israel and was to a large extent a live improvisation.
lyrics
The Jewish religion is this and this and that:
very early to get up ekh lyuli lyuli da lyuli very early to get up
to pour some water on you finger tips
And don’t forget to say the morning prayer with your lips
And to the synagogue to run
Tales and tfiln to put on
And dedicate your soul to the Unknown and Single One
Единому Неведомому душу предавать
И никогда глаза не закрывать
И всё что происходит до конца осознавать.
Ничего не признавать конечной истиной в единственном числе
ведь истин бесконечно много есть у Бога даже если нету Бога на земле есть очень много
конкретных частных истин производных от событий ситуаций не похожих ни на что другое кроме самих себя
а мы похожи я на тебя ты на меня
похожи друг на друга
различий между нами бесконечное число нам повезло событие имеет место быть и может быть оно тебе дано
как место истины твоей и ты тогда живи по ней
не забывай не предавай
глаза не закрывай смотри на истину твою и я с тобою тоже буду вместе
Смотреть на эту истину твою
И петь эту песню
Продолжай идти продолжай идти продолжай идти
хотя другие есть пути но ты
продолжай идти продолжай идти продолжай идти туда куда ты захотел идти тогда когда все стало по-другому
принимай за аксиому эту истину твою такую частную конкретную кому-то не понятную кому-то не заметную но для тебя любимую заветную бессмертную
продолжай идти продолжай идти
продолжай идти не поддавайся ни обману никакому ни дурману ни подобиям ни копиям той истины которую ты любишь ни попыткам обратить её в закон для всей земли ведь эти люли да люли они как сладкие пилюли для уставших жить и двигаться вперед для тех кто знает что умрёт а мы не будем умирать мы будем продолжать идти туда куда мы шли и мы тогда увидим что вдали что впереди ты только никуда не уходи продолжай идти продолжай идти продолжай идти политика победы это знали архимеды и ромео и джульетты и революционеры те которые боролись с богачами и великие поэты древней Греции Овидии Лукреции Вергилии Горации которые имели за плечами не одни лишь только травмы и фрустрации но также и реальные события любовные соития научные открытия могучие стихи и песни мы не стоим на месте добро важнее зла любовь сильнее смерти она уже пришла мы не умрём границу перейдём и будем песни распевать и рюмку водки наливать!. . . // ekh lyuli lyuli da lyuli рюмку водки наливать // ekh lyuli lyuli da lyuli – лехаим-лехаим выпивать
To dedicate your soul to the Unknown and Single One
To never close your eyes
To be fully conscious of everything that happens
To not recognize anything as the ultimate truth in the singular number
For God has infinitely many truths even if there is no God on earth
There are so many specific private truths derived from events and situations
Which are not similar to anything other than themselves
And we are alike, I am like you, you are like me
We look like each other
The differences between us are endless
We are lucky the event has a place to be
And maybe it was given to you
As a place of your truth and you then live on it
Don't forget, don't betray
Do not close your eyes, look at your truth and I will be with you too
Looking at this truth of yours
And sing this song
Keep going keep going keep going
Although there are other paths, but you
Keep going keep going keep going
Where you wanted to go back then when everything became different
Take, as an axiom, that truth of yours, which is so private, so specific
Which is unclear to someone, not noticeable to someone
But to you, it’s your beloved one your cherished one, the immortal
Keep going keep going
Keep going don't succumb to any deception or dope
Or likenesses or copies of the truth that you love,
Neither to attempts to turn it into a law for the whole earth
Because these lyuli and lyuli are like sweet pills
For those who are tired of living and of moving forward
For those who know that they will die
And we, we will not die, we will continue to go where we were going
And then we’ll see what’s far ahead
You just don’t go anywhere
Keep going keep going keep going
The politics of victory
It was known by Archimedes and by Romeos and Juliets
And by the revolutionaries who fought with the rich
And by the great poets of Ancient Greece -
Ovid, Lucretius, Virgil, Horace,
Who had had not only traumas and frustrations,
But also real events, love intercourses, scientific discoveries, mighty poems and songs
We do not stand still
Good is more important than evil
Love is stronger than death
It has already come
We will not die
We will cross the border
And we will sing songs and pour a glass of vodka
Ekh lyuli lyuli da lyuli
A glass of vodka we will pour
Ekh lyuli lyuli da lyuli
L’chaim l’chaim will we drink
credits
from The Unternationale: The Fourth Unternational,
released September 11, 2020
(Music and original Russo-Yiddish verses: traditional, English version: Psoy, Kahn. Russian rap-style reading: Psoy)
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