We come from a distant past that we’ve forgotten And now we look up and aspire to the stars We are the mystery that even we can’t decipher The mystery of man The story is told in stone and broken arrows In traces of cities unknown lost in sand In colours and castle walls silent and unseen statues The mystery of man The wind stirs in the trees likes voices in dreams And then just when it seems we know what it means Simply its gone The miracle is the mind asking the questions Seeking to find itself if it can Only to see itself endlessly echoed in mirrors The mystery of man
PARABOLA (magazine) celebrated the birthdate of American jazz singer, Sara
Vaughan (March 27, 1924 – April 3, 1990).
This particular track, “The
Mystery of Man” was recorded in 1984 as part of the album The Planet is Alive, Let It Live, a
symphonic piece composed by Tito Fontana and Sante Palumbo on Italian
translations of Polish poems by Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul
II.
Here are the lyrics:
We come from a distant past that we’ve forgotten And now we look up and aspire to the stars We are the mystery that even we can’t decipher The mystery of man
The story is told in stone and broken arrows In traces of cities unknown lost in sand In colours and castle walls silent and unseen statues The mystery of man
The wind stirs in the trees likes voices in dreams And then just when it seems we know what it means Simply its gone
The miracle is the mind asking the questions Seeking to find itself if it can Only to see itself endlessly echoed in mirrors The mystery of man
