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Those Who Throw a Stone

by grandios sensibel

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"Those Who Throw a Stone" is a piano based ballade with dreamy synths, pulsing beat and dramatic cello melodies and a collaboration with Swiss-Hungarian cellist Victor Plumettaz.
The idea for the lyrics came from an article I read, about citizens who attacked refugees at the European borders. I invented a story from the perspective of a young refugee women, arriving with her child per boat in Europe.
For this song I also created this music video for wich I painted 26 gouache & ink drawings with motives of newspaper photographies showing refugees from 2015 to 2022. This music video also has its premiere the 28th April, at a group art exhibition in Cologne, Germany

lyrics

She responds with pride directly into their eyes
It is difficult but she doesn’t want to fall
They stand right in front of her, with their clean clothes
They won’t listen to her story,
’cause they belief they know it before it is told
I’m sure you know those people
they exist everywhere,
in every country
they turn their vague fear into targeted hate
they heard the name of her country too often in the last months
but still it is just letter after letter
no picture of a landscape
nor of the houses
nor of the bombings
nor of the blood
just her face under a million of others a million of others
and she is the one to realise
those who throw a stone
those who throw a stone
believe they own it

She’s gonna reach the boarder and finds her way
She crawls through the fence
She won’t let them take her rights
She dreamed of safety
and education for her child
but now she sits and waits and waits and waits
’cause there are so many of her


Her language is louder and faster than theirs
her skin is darker
she came over the ocean
water was her greatest hope
and her greatest fear
there was some sort of trouble and they say it was one of her kind
and if one of them is mad, they must be all some sort of threat
They do not think a lot
they rather react
But they are not the people like they used to claim
they are afraid to lose a little bit
afraid to lose some comfort and afraid of any change
How dare you
how dare you
My grandmother was a war child
How dare you forget your own history
and to claim to close the borders
and she is the one to realise
those who throw a stone
those who throw a stone
believe they own it

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released April 28, 2023
composition, lyrics, piano, production: Melissa Klingelhöfer
cello: Victor Plumettaz

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grandios sensibel Wiesbaden, Germany

Grandios Sensibel, this is Melissa Klingelhöfer, singer-songwriter, pianist, composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist based in Germany.

She writes songs with an emphasis on pianosound, honest lyrics, string accompaniment and moony synths and beats. ... more

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