what inspired the great juggler?

[Transient]

i really like the lyrics, i love reading lyrics that stand out from typical metal lyrics

[Transient]

henrik cant you shed some light on this?

[anata]

I sure can't Transient. I guess we have to wait for the poet himself a.k.a. Fredrik Schälin to answer this. It's better that way.
/Henrik

[anata]

i really like the lyrics, i love reading lyrics that stand out from typical metal lyrics

I'm glad to hear that there is at least one person who read my lyrics, thanks! The great juggler is like most of my lyrics about myself. Firstly, I am the great juggler. It's about how I was (dis)regarded by other people in my younger years, aspiring to achieve something musically. "Joined the circus at seventeen" stands for forming Anata. Later on it deals with getting so consumed by my music that I almost alienated from the rest of what is life. You prefer staying inside and doing your thing, while neglecting a lot of other things. And the thing is, that no matter how good you get at doing your thing, in this case playing alternative music, the circus tent will always be very small. You will forever be regarded an outsider and a freak. For most of the time I love it, but sometimes it hurts quite a bit.

Btw I initially wrote this as a short story "(taken from) A letter from The Great Juggler". It's about a person that travels with a circus, now writing a letter to his old friend. Later I wrote some music to fit parts of the story, and that is what you hear in The great juggler.

Feel free to ask about other lyrics! I'll try to check in once in a while.

Fredrik
ANATA

[anata]

Man that's fast Fredrik!

[Transient]

I'm glad to hear that there is at least one person who read my lyrics, thanks! The great juggler is like most of my lyrics about myself. Firstly, I am the great juggler. It's about how I was (dis)regarded by other people in my younger years, aspiring to achieve something musically. "Joined the circus at seventeen" stands for forming Anata. Later on it deals with getting so consumed by my music that I almost alienated from the rest of what is life. You prefer staying inside and doing your thing, while neglecting a lot of other things. And the thing is, that no matter how good you get at doing your thing, in this case playing alternative music, the circus tent will always be very small. You will forever be regarded an outsider and a freak. For most of the time I love it, but sometimes it hurts quite a bit.

Btw I initially wrote this as a short story "(taken from) A letter from The Great Juggler". It's about a person that travels with a circus, now writing a letter to his old friend. Later I wrote some music to fit parts of the story, and that is what you hear in The great juggler.

Feel free to ask about other lyrics! I'll try to check in once in a while.

Fredrik
ANATA


awesome, im impressed. id like to see that short story sometime, too! (unless its in svenska , *shrug*)


my favorite part is when he claims "look, higher than anyone else!"

it seems so sad in an honorable way.

[fireblaster666]

that is an amzing story

[Circastes]

I'm glad to hear that there is at least one person who read my lyrics, thanks!

I didn't think it needed to be said - but I read and definitely enjoy your lyrics! \m/ I imagine I'm not the only one. They're amazing.

[Antæos]

Heheh, damn, I totally misinterpreted "The Great Juggler" then. I was pretty convinced it was a sort of Sartrian litany concerning the meaninglessness of existence and thereby of any action.

"Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal."
Jean-Paul Sartre