[MEDIA=2] Terra Inc. er den første sang jeg forsøgsvist har leget med på min nye digitaloptager (og jeg understreger her ‘forsøgsvist’, som det også vil fremgå såfremt du drister dig til at trykke ‘play’!). Sangens titel spiller på det eventyrlige, dragende udtryk fra middelalderens kort over den ukendte verden: Terra Incognita – og på den amerikanske firma forkortelse ‘Inc.’ for ‘Incorporated’. Sangen er en slags elegi for afmystificeringen af verden, som er sket gennem de store opdagelser og videnskabelige landvindinger generelt. Teksten kan læses herunder… døm selv!

Forresten… Billedet der illustrerer ‘afspilleren’ herover er et litografi udført af den mexicanske kunstner Jos� Guadalupe Posada ca. 1905. Billedets titel er “Calavera Don Quijote y Sancho Panza” og er – efter min mening – en passende illustration til sangen. (Se hele billedet her)

Terra Inc.
Musik & tekst: Rune Clausen

Let me tell you a story
about a knight
and of his friend
a man who drew maps

His maps were filled with
the strangest of lands
monsters and people
wild and untamed

And now the knight’s fate was decided
he had to follow every map
now he travelled through unknown reaches
killing what he saw
discovering a world, destroying a dream
discovering a world, destroying a dream

The people of Pytan
living by smell
across hils of gold
that pismires keep

The shadowfeet
and the dogheaded men
griffins and unicorns
fell to his blade

And now the knight’s fate was decided
he had to follow every map
now he travelled through unknown reaches
killing what he saw
discovering a world, destroying a dream
discovering a world, destroying a dream