Macidol Mac music community

Song Information:

This is a demo version whereof I shall definitely junk all the (rather quickly recorded) guitars and voices. I should as lief have a gospel choir sing this, but I'm not pinning my hopes on finding one prepared to record it.

I wrote this back in 1997 and even played it live a few times. This demo was recorded on 8 March, 2007.

The words are based on "the four-fold cure" of Epicurus: ἀφοβον ὁ θεος, ἀναισθητον ὁ θανατος, και τἀγαθον μεν εὐκτητον, το δε δεινον εὐεκκαρτερητον.

Song Lyrics:

Whether or not there be any god, enjoy what life is here:
god’s attention is man’s invention, that is perfectly clear.
Epicurus provides the chorus: “gods are nothing to fear,”
do what you will—for good or for ill—, but no god will appear.

You can be free from the fears that bring you misery,
and you can be sure in the four-fold cure.

(Gods are nothing to you;
death can’t harm, it is true;
evils pass away too;
good is easy to do.)

Take if you want a baptismal font as some protective seal,
or misconstrue the Indian view that life’s an endless wheel.
Epicurus provides our chorus, “death is nothing to feel;”
none can deny that all men must die, accept brief life as real.

True peace of mind is something that is easy to find
for you can be sure in the four-fold cure.

(Ills are easy to bear;
good is easy to deal;
gods are nothing to fear;
death is nothing to feel.)

Epicurus said to all of us, good is easy to do,
and, furthermore, you can learn to endure earthly evils too.
Epicurus provides the chorus, gods are nothing to you,
and when life has passed pain cannot last: the four-fold cure is true.

We can be free from the fears that bring us misery,
and we can be sure in the four-fold cure.

(Gods are nothing to you;
death can’t harm, it is true;
evils pass away too;
good is easy to do.)