17. Pustki – I won’t get lost in the crowd

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“Nie zgubię się w tłumie” (I won’t get lost in the crowd) by the Polish band Pustki is like one of those countless weekdays when you get up too early and have to go to work: every day the same way, the same people, and always that crowd through which one has to find his way. To be serious: there are really better things in life than the daily way to work. However, what makes it slightly interesting are the people you recognize after some time, as the kiosk owner on the corner, the newspaper vendor at the station, the conductor on the train and some of the many people taking the same way at the same time – or just the man with the umbrella at the station. These people create kind of daily familiarity (or even more?), but when they disappear, something important is lacking.

The capricious song by Pustki contains such thoughts. The very first 30 seconds are a challenge for the ears – and remind me of my alarm clock in the morning. Is that all poetry now? Or simply the soundtrack of my daily way to work? Decide for yourself!

The band Pustki (The Empties) is a Polish alternative rock band with melodic and sometimes unpredictable music and catchy lyrics. “Nie zgubię się w tłumie” is from their 2008 album “Koniec Kryzysu” (End of crisis), which turned out to be the most successful of the band’s releases and was chosen as the best album of the year by the alternative music magazine Pulp and by Program III of the national Polish Radio. The band was founded in 1999 in Ostrówek/Masovia and is based in Warsaw since 2007. Current members of Pustki are Radek Łukasiewicz (guitar, vocals), Grzegorz Śluz (drums) und Barbara Wrońska (piano, vocals).

 

I won’t get lost in the crowd

Do głowy wcześnie rannej
przykładam tytoniu liść.
Już poniedziałek
muszę stąd wyjść.

Nie wiem, czy znajdę drogę,
pokrzyżował ulice Pan.
Kierunek wiatru inny niż znam.

Ref.:
Nie zgubię się w tłumie
nie będę czekać, aż ktoś
podepcze moje ręce, czoło, policzki i nos
podepcze moje ręce, czoło, policzki i nos

Jadę tam, gdzie zwykle.
Tramwaj, obłocone drzwi.
Wysiądę, żeby sprawdzić czy
stoisz pod parasolem jak co dzień, gdy mijam cię.
Tym razem spojrzysz na mnie, wiem.

Ref.:
Nie zgubię się w tłumie
nie będę czekać, aż ktoś
podepcze moje ręce, czoło, policzki i nos
podepcze moje ręce, czoło, policzki i nos