The Savage Rose to M nebarn in 92 is exemplary. In the West you call yourselves democrats, advocates of human rights. In the East you decorate yourselves with the stolen name of socialism. We do not send any appeals. We find our own place in the huge crowds of the Earth s struggling proletariat, who, united by mutual experiences, will put an end to your Era of tyranny.
Nothing is deducted, nothing is added.
And the newspaper critics are not the only ones who have been waiting and waiting in vain. The Roses have long since moved past that kind of small-mindedness. But the Palestinians still haven t gotten their land back, Palestinian children are still being slaughtered, they are still rising in the Intifada. The contra revolution made it into a gambling den with prostitution and drugs and a base for aggression towards others. So intensely have the Roses lived in their time, that even their more dated songs become universal valid.