🇩🇪 2024 hatte ich das Glück, Adele in München live zu sehen. Der Rahmen war beeindruckend: ein Festivalgelände, eine riesige Arena mit beeindruckend großer Bühne und Leinwand, um mich herum 80.000 Menschen, ein warmer Sommerabend mit wunderschönem Sonnenuntergang. Und vor mir auf der Bühne: Adele. Eine einzelne Person, auf die alle Aufmerksamkeit gerichtet war, glamourös gestylt aber durch ihre Art zu reden unglaublich nahbar. Und ich habe mich gefragt, wie sich das wohl anfühlt. Wie sie uns, das Publikum wahrnimmt, wie sie es schafft, diese Person auf der Bühne zu sein, sich selbst aber nicht darin zu verlieren.
🇬🇧 In 2024, I was lucky enough to see Adele live in Munich. The setting was impressive: a festival ground, a massive arena with a huge stage and screens, 80,000 people around me, a warm summer evening with a beautiful sunset. And there she was on stage: Adele. One person, the center of everyone’s attention, glamorous yet incredibly down-to-earth in the way she spoke. And I wondered: What does it feel like? How does she see us, the audience? How does she manage to be that person on stage without losing herself in it?
Text, Musik & Arrangement: Theresa
Harfe & Gesang: Theresa
© 2024 Theresa. All rights reserved.
We’re here tonight, looking up to you.
But do we really know who we are looking up to?
Oh do we really know who we are looking up to?
What is fiction, what is real?
Is it just a mask you wear?
To hide behind when you’re up there,
While your true self is waiting backstage for the show to end.
What do you see looking in the crowd?
What do you hear when we scream out loud?
Do you feel embraced or all alone,
Surrounded by many but exposed by the spotlight.
We’re here tonight, looking up to you.
But do we really know who we are looking up to?
Oh do we really know who we are looking up to?
You are shining light and bright.
Which also makes us shine tonight.
It’s everything we’re longing for,
To grasp a spark of you to enlighten our ordinary lives.
But when the sparks begin to fade,
The crowd is gone, the evening late,
How do you not burn yourself?
Keep alive what is underneath that overwhelming flame.
We’re here tonight, looking up to you.
But do we really know who we are looking up to?
Do we really wanna know who we are looking up to?
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