Jonáš Doleček – lyrics, music, voice, instruments

Ben Faflík – drums 

Jaroslav Froněk – recording and mixing 

The Imprint

In the cold morning

My sight wakes up to darkness

Searching for the last night

Without knowing more than a feeling

The marks on the skin

Will vanish before the chill comes

And a veil from the mundane swirling’s shadow

Will suppress my hunger

Your palm slaps my face

Getting me thrown off the steed

I cannot climb back

A single call might transform

Martyrdom into blossom

Silence the cicadas

And the humming of an ill-wishing talk

I’ve lost all insight

Cannot see a thing under

Only the surface

I’m lacking an impression

Of a far-reaching sight

At the end of which lies more than the cold

I just want to see some warmth from far away 

That feels close only when the blood flows

Directly under the surface

I’m being burned by a sensation’s return from ashes

Into an endless night with no moon

Inside a windowless room

And a stimulus – just a single picture

about the composition

The theme mostly draws from the topics of human – nature, but also human – human relationships and generally offers more of a negative/desperate sort of view. We have discussed many unfortunate events when human actions had a detrimental effect on their surroundings, yet we still happily spray over pesticides not knowing about possible long term effects. We read Dave Goulson’s story in which a great effort led to the banning of a single harmful substance while the others were left legally unattended. We have seen native people of Brazilian rainforests being attacked due to gold mining. Sometimes it seems that the scale of such events and the inability to opt-out can lead to truly bizarre situations, hence the “endless dream” hinted at in the very last verses.

I would like to emphasize that the negativity is not the only thing I took away from this course. Quite the contrary. I had learned about some amazing ideas I had not had the opportunity to study before – such as the Gaia theory and the symbiosis evolution theory. Each session, I think, ended on a hopeful note. The topic I chose for my final submission is not the single or probably the most important summary of my experience of this course. It’s just what inspired me to write music about. While the lyrics convey mostly the feeling of Weltschmerz, I wouldn’t say that the combination with music is utterly desperate.

I am not one to analyze my compositions, but if I had to say… I think the hope is best represented by the bassline and the guitar intro/outro part.