| Unreleased song by Flake Lorenz from the {{{ReleaseType}}} [[Flake feiert Weihnachten ({{{ReleaseType}}})|Flake feiert Weihnachten]][[Category:Songs from {{{ReleaseType}}} Flake feiert Weihnachten]] | |
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| Lyricist: | Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger |
| Length: | 03:17 |
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Süßer die Glocken nie klingen is a cover song by Flake Lorenz. It is the fifth track on the Flake feiert Weihnachten album.
Süßer die Glocken nie klingen is the fifth song on the album Flake feiert Weihnachten by Flake Lorenz.
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- The song omits the original lyrics and instead uses the vocal melody, while recordings of historical speeches by Erich Honecker, Günter Schabowski and John F. Kennedy are played.
- The song features musician Farin Urlaub.
- There are no lyrics in the song. It consists only of the following quotes:
Walter Ulbricht (from 15 June 1961): Ich verstehe Ihre Frage so, dass es in Westdeutschland Menschen gibt, die wünschen, dass wir die Bauarbeiter der Hauptstadt der DDR dazu mobilisieren, eine Mauer aufzurichten.
Walter Ulbricht (from 15 June 1961): Niemand hat die Absicht, eine Mauer zu errichten.
John F. Kennedy (from 26 June 1963): Ich bin ein Berliner.
Erich Honecker (from 19 January 1989): Die Mauer wird in 50 und auch in 100 Jahren noch bestehen bleiben.
Monday demonstrations in East Germany in 1989/1990: Wir sind das Volk!
Günter Schabowski (9 November 1989): Das tritt nach meiner Kenntnis... ist das sofort, unverzüglich
Erich Mielke (from 13 November 1989): Ich liebe doch alle, alle Menschen ... Ich liebe doch, ich setze mich doch dafür ein.
- Flake says about the song:[1]
Farin came up with the idea of the recordings. I immediately had an image in my mind's eye of a couple who had been separated for decades sitting together again under the Christmas tree and reminiscing about the past years. Christmas existed before and after the GDR was founded. I have always wished for a song like this: a song in which the most recent German history is told as a Christmas story without singing. You can still hear the original lyrics in your head. It's a song that you have to put together in your own brain. Only Farin Urlaub can come up with something so ingenious.
- The song had its world premiere in the podcast "Time For Vinyl" on 18 November 2024.[2]
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