Week Eighteen: Synthpop - Wolfsheim - "Once in a Lifetime" - Spectators

Wolfsheim is a band that makes me really, really sad.  It's not actually their music or their lyrics or anything like that which elicits the sadness.  It's the fact that they were so good and hardly anyone, outside of the Synthpop crowd, even knew about them.

I know there are many bands that suffer this same fate, and it's such a travesty that we are surrounded by so much beauty in the form of art, music, and even nature, yet most people choose to sit plastered in front of televisions sets, practically drooling on themselves while in a zombie-like trance.  I get it, though; for many people, that is an escape from reality.

I wish I had more time to seek out new and even established bands and support them with my entire being so that no one else had to fall into oblivion.  Alas, my teaching career and legal courses keep me so busy that I sometimes worry that I won't even have enough time or energy to slap together these little posts.  At least I am not wasting away in front of a TV screen.

Hopefully, as I wrap up these legal courses within the next year and transition into a new career, I will soon find time to explore the music scene again.  The anticipation of all the bands out there waiting for me to discover them is almost overwhelming...

I am including a second Wolfsheim video below the lyrics because I think the singer's voice is so lovely and unique, and I'm hoping it will inspire more people to check them out.  While you're at it, check out more tunes from all the bands I posted during Synthpop week.

It's getting dark too soon
A threatening silence
Surrounding me
A wind comes up from the islands

When distance fades to stormy gray
Washed out from the deep of the ocean
Here I will stand to face your wrath
While all the others are praying

Calm down my heart, don't beat so fast
Don't be afraid just once in a lifetime
Calm down my heart, don't beat so fast
Don't be afraid just once in a lifetime

No rain can wash away my tears
No wind can soothe my pain
You made me doubt, you made me fear
But now I'm not the same

You took my wife, my unborn son
Torn into the deep of the ocean
I don't pretend that I love you
'Cause there is nothing left to lose

And when silence comes back to me
I find myself feeling lonely
Standing here on the shores of destiny
I find myself feeling lonely

I had a life to give, many dreams to live
Don't you know that you're losing so much this time
Beyond the waves, I will be free
While all the others are praying

Calm down my heart, don't beat so fast
Don't be afraid just once in a lifetime
Calm down my heart, don't beat so fast
Don't be afraid just once in a lifetime

No rain can wash away my tears
No wind can soothe my pain
You made me doubt, you made me fear
But now I'm not the same

You took my wife, my unborn son
Torn into the deep of the ocean
I don't pretend that I love you
'Cause there is nothing left to lose

The love in you, it does not burn
There is no lesson you can learn
And there are sounds you cannot hear
And there are feelings you can't feel

Calm down my heart, don't beat so fast
Don't be afraid just once in a lifetime
I don't pretend that I love you
And this time I'm not scared of you