CROSSROADS stammt von einem amerikanischen Songwriter, den ich sehr schätze. In seinen oft autobiographischen Songtexten über ein kurvenreich gelebtes Leben begegnet man etwas, was vielleicht als „Lebensweisheit“ bezeichnet werden kann. Hier ist nichts pathetisch, banal oder oberflächlich, vielmehr drücken diese Zeilen etwas aus, das man selbst so oder in anderem Zusammenhang erlebt, jedoch nicht in Worte gefasst, aber auf ähnliche Weise empfunden hat. Entscheidungen im Leben, jene “Crossroads” also, sehen von vorne immer richtig aus, auch die falschen.
Songtext:
I’m standing at the crossroads
There are many roads to take
But I stand here so silently
For fear of a mistake
One road leads to paradise
One road leads to pain
One road leads to freedom
But they all look the same
I’ve traveled many roads
And not all of them were good
The foolish ones taught more to me
Than the wise ones ever could
One road leads to sacrifice
One road leads to shame
One road leads to freedom
But they all look the same
There were roads I never travelled
There were turns I did not take
There were mysteries that I left unravelled
But leaving you was my only mistake
So I’m standing at the crossroads
Imprisoned by this doubt
As if by doing nothing
I might find my way out
One road leads to paradise
One road leads to pain
One road leads to freedom
But they all look the same
[CALVIN RUSSELL – Crossroads]
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