“Sestra, Sestra” a song about the moment a child realizes that all he thought the world to be is untrue. It’s the discovery that the world is a tiny place where nothing is as it seems. A place where children are taught about the evils of vanity and selfishness only to discover it is the wheel that causes the world to turn. It is about the realization that no one is actually listening to anyone instead they are waiting for their turn to speak. The child then tries to escape the world back to the one he knew and understood. “Sestra, Sestra” is just one more untruth in the world.
Did you believe them when they said go to bed?
Don’t listen to the demons because it’s all in your head
Mother knows what’s best, Cigarettes in her chest
So eat your dinner or you’ll never get your rest
Sister, Sister – Take me away
Sister, Sister – Don’t change today
Sister, Sister – Like a butterfly
You flew away with the dreams I made
Soaring over rooftops just staring at their heads
Just waiting for them all to realize that their dead
No thoughts of their own the perfect American home
Programmed responses “Good day, I’m all alone”