Behind The Music With Neal Barnard, MD:
Nemesis
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Listen to this illuminating conversation between Kathryn Hayward, MD and award-winning composer and musician Neal Barnard, MD. Neal wrote the lyrics to his song Nemesis after first writing it as purely an instrumental piece. Later, he began hearing hoofbeats within the musical lines, which influenced him to develop the piece around the theme of the cruelty of horseracing.
People think of horseracing as a wonderful sport with mint juleps, fancy clothes and people making money. All you have to do is look behind the scenes, as in so many cases where people interact with animals, and you see that the animal is not a volunteer.
-Neal Barnard, MD
Christine Heron sings in Italian, whispering her lines like Nemesis, the Greek goddess of retribution. Nemesis inflicted a punishing and fatal lesson upon Narcissus, an arrogant youth who had cruelly rejected love. Nemesis caused Narcissus to fall obsessively in love with himself when he saw his reflection in a pool.. From that moment on, he was doomed to waste away at the edge of the water.
Neal regards the narcissism of humans as influencing us to view the rest of creation as our servants, which affects everyone’s quality of life. Nemesis is on the album Vanishing Act, named as such because Neal describes the aspects of life that are vulnerable and fragile as a vanishing act.
Given that life is indeed short, we can use our time to make the world better for those who need help along the way and those coming behind us, to the extent that we can. And that, to me, is very meaningful.
-Neal Barnard, MD
Lyrics
Nemesis
Smell the champagne
Hear the crowd
I remember now
Step into the sun, try to look proud
Con spada e bilancia
Pazienza e proporzione
Vendicatore dell’orgoglio
E del crimine
With sword and scale
Patience and proportion
Vindicator of pride
And crime
Out of the gate
Money’s the thing
And again, and again, and again, and again
They just want to be friends
Mantengono i loro segreti
Queste nuvole nel vino
Nessuna emozione, nessuna tregua
They keep their secrets
These clouds in the wine
No emotion, no reprieve
That pathetic little tyrant
And his girlfriend, too
I know a dance that they could do
Annusa lo champagne
Ascolta la folla
Cerca di sembrare orgoglioso
Smell the champagne
Hear the crowd
Try to look proud
When it all comes down
Last thing they’ll see
Is hungry and waiting
In the tulip trees
Un lago silenzioso
Un giovane sciocco
Una goccia di sudore
D’amore impossibile
È tutto ciò che serve
Per spezzare l’incantesimo
A silent pool
A giddy young fool
A drop of sweat,
Of impossible love,
Is all it takes
To break the spell
Behind The Music With Neal Barnard, MD:
Nemesis