SANT JOAN NIGHT, THE EARTH BEGS FOR REBIRTH…

THE EARTH BEGS FOR REBIRTH…

In Ibiza, on midsummer’s night we’ll light the ‘foguerón’,
the brightest, most magical and purifying ever,
a “foc” capable of burning war itself,
our own wars, our own miseries…

We’ll burn the useless and the absurd,

the pains and rheumatisms of the soul,
the spiders’ webs, the dust,
the rancid creosote from our drawers,
the smugness and the arrogance,
all that doesn’t belong to the new times,
all that doesn’t make up new life,
we’ll burn it all…
 

…because it’s time to walk bare-foot and
to incinerate the tar that chokes the earth,
to clean with salt and sea-blue turquoise…the horizon…
to purify the air and breathe in peace,
and return to life with real love…
  
Magic and pagan midsummer’s night,
we’ll get our hopes drunk so that they don’t abandon us,
we’ll seduce sadness so that it lets us dance and leap with joy,
we live, awake, like children…on the midsummer’s fire…
 

This night of the 23rd of June 2007
the shortest and brightest of the year we’ll stay awake,
cleansed and cured huddled up to the bonfire,
waiting to see the first sun of summer…in Ibiza…
 

GUIDE TO LOSE YOURSELF IN
THE ARTISTIC LIFE OF IBIZA
PS: Get yourself ready for midsummer’s night in Ibiza,
we’ll provoke a fire-bolt that’ll reach the very stars so that they shoot away and
fulminate everything that can injure our land.