Apologia Laibach
Since when, sons of truth, are you the brothers of night?
What colours your hands with the redness of blood?
The explosion in the night is the flower of woe,
nothing can be jusified by it.
The altar cannot be destroyed,
the altar of lies, that multiplies shapes.
The spotless picture, the painless lights,
the only harbours of the terrible night.
We are the children of the spirit and the brothers of strength,
whose promises are not fulfilled.
We are the black ghosts of this world,
we sing the mad image of woe.
The explanation is the whip and you bleed:
Break the mirror of the world for the hundredth time,-
all your efforts are in vain. We have overcome the night:
our debt has been paid
and the light is ours.
Apologija Laibach
Od kdaj, sinovi resnice, ste bratje noci
Kaj roke vase s krvjo rdeci?
Eksplozija v noci je roza gorja,
Opraviciti z njo se nicesar ne da.
Razbiti mogoce oltarja ni,
Oltarja lazi, ki oblike mnozi.
Brezmadezna slika, brezbolne luci,
edina zavetja srhljivih noci.
Otroci duha smo in bratje moci,
katere obljuba se ne izvrsi.
Smo crni duhovi od tega sveta,
opevamo noro podobo gorja.
Razlaga je bic, in ti krvavis:
Po stotic razbije zrcalo sveta
vas trud je zaman. Presegli smo noc;
nas dolg je poplacan
in nasa je luc.
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Tomaz Hostnik
Born in 1961 in Medvode
Original singer of Laibach and one of the co-founders, he was also the leader of the group.
Apologija Laibach - Written in 1982 by Tomaz Hostnik shortly before his death, led some to read it as a suicide note.
The song features in the NSK production Krst Pod Triglavom-Baptism, also features in the compilation Slovenska Akropola.
The cut on Tomaz Hostnik's chin at Krizanke resulted from a bottle thrown from the crowd.
The last concert with Tomaz took place in Zagreb at Mosa Pijade Hall, December 11. Zagreb police and army officers investigate Laibach's "apparent use of military expedients in a show."
On December 21st 1982 Tomaz hanged himself from a kozolec - a type of hayrack distinctive to Slovenia.
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