As sung
Brandsma! Titus! Anno Sjoerd! Jij!
Hoe verslaan we jouw verhaal?
Wat voor tekst, in welke taal?
Welke boodschap of moraal
doet recht aan wie je was en bent?
Hymne of wetenschap? Beeldend of kaal?
Bij alle meningen hier in de zaal,
alle veelstemmigheid, al het gedwaal,
blijf jij ons onbekend:
Wat is waar, wat apocrief?
Und wer war es der dich rief
in dyn ûngelok, in your grief?
Dat is voor ons een open vraag.
Was je een heilige? Wiesto nayf?
Warst du ein Opfer, of koos je actief?
Hoe je gehandeld hebt, and your belief,
Was sagt uns das ...
Wat seit dat ús ...
What does that mean ...
Wat zegt dat ons...
vandaag?
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Literal translation
Brandsma! Titus! Anno Sjoerd! You!
How do we report your story?
What kind of text, in which language?
What message or moral
does justice to who you were and are?
Hymn or science? Visually expressive or bare?
With all the opinions here in this hall,
all the polyphony, all the wandering,
you remain unknown to us:
What is true, what apocryphal?
And who was it that called you
in your sorrow, in your grief?
That is an open question to us.
Were you a saint? Were you naive?
Were you a victim, or did you actively choose?
How you have acted, and your belief,
what does that say to us…
what does that say to us…
what does that mean…
what does that say to us...
today?
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