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Hajnal comes
I remember watching a demonstration a few years ago in Tblisi, Georgia. The clubs had been closed and young people were out on the streets. Watching the energy of that young generation, I could see a hunger for change in them. You could see that in a sea of conservatism those young people wanted a different future, they were moving to a different rhythm of what surrounded them. That was the first inspiration for this song.The second was something that happened during a concert we were playing. A guy in the audience started dancing in a really free, freaked out way. He was totally letting himself in the music. It was inspiring and we ended up jamming along and out of that the seeds of this song were sewn. When it came to writing the lyrics it was obvious that capturing the idea of freedom and the idea of the ability to change it could not be written in one language. So the song is a collage of languages. Mixing Georgian and Bulgarian and Hungarian and English absolutely made sense to me in the flow of the song. Hajnal is the sunrise in Hungarian. The chant cho cho cho is yes, yes, yes in Georgian.The song asks the question – are you going to be ready? Are you going to be really, really, ready when the time comes for you to be so? Will you stand up and be counted? I think it’s a big question we face. When the sun comes up, when the morning comes, when the moment comes, when the future arrives – are you ready to make the right change? Yes, you live now and you live and dance in the moment but are you ready the big changes? But I also think the message of the song is you DO have power when the sun comes up. You have the biggest power – the power for change. But you need to be ready for it. It questions the idea that people say ‘oh I’m just one in many’ or ‘I’m just one of a few’ because these are things that we use to stop ourselves changing. The thing is you have a choice. You can apologise and you can say things can’t change or you can realise the power within you to change and understand the importance of that change. So the call ‘hey hey hey’ and the response ‘cho cho cho’ – the cho is the ‘yes’. It is the positive response. You know, it’s just a fact we move to different rhythms, which could be culture, country,gender, age, many things. And if your rhythm is not mine, if you throw darkness I will throw light back. We are all so different, that’s easy to see but we have heart and that heart has a beat. We can make a choice. If you talk badly to me, I can be polite back. I can decide to throw hate back, or throw love. If you’re going to stand up, it’s absolutely your personal decision. You will always have that decision. The song asks us to stand up and at least be clear that you can change. With the light. Hajnalka Péter
lyrics
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Shemkhudi (da) the Hajnal comes
( Are you really really ready
when the morning(sunrise) is coming )
It starts Hey, Hey, Hey !
It starts Cho, Cho, Cho!
(Cho = Yes)
Shemkhudi (da) Hajnal comes
(when the morning comes)
Ar mitkhari es I'm one ot mnogo
Ar mitkhari es I'm one ot malkoto
(Do not tell me that I am one of many
Do not tell me that I am one of the few)
It starts Hey, Hey, Hey...
It starts Cho, Cho, Cho...
We say Hey, Hey, Hey !
We say Cho. Cho. Cho!
JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
I say Hey, Hey, Hey...
i say Cho. Cho. cho...
When your rhythm is not mine
You throw darkness we throw light!
credits
from Sabotage and Tradition,
released February 19, 2020
Hajnal Comes by Zura Dzagnidze and Hajnalka Péter
Produced and mixed by Zura Dzagnidze at 5 Stock Studios, Stuttgart 2019 / / / Mastered by Pete Maher / / / Special thanks to Péter Erdei / / /
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