Out Now: Athena & The Poem of a Clear Conscience, the second double-single from my upcoming album

February 21, 2020

The second double-single, including the songs “Athena” & “The Poem of a Clear Conscience”, from my upcoming album Plotting Revolutions is out now. You can stream the songs on your preferred platform: http://smarturl.it/sarahpathena

A huge thank you to the Week in Pop, Indiepoprock, DepecheMode, and Highclouds for the early support! 💜🔮✨✨

Athena is a beat-driven, disco-inspired song about Sarah’s hometown – her “old/new home”, as she calls it. “Athena is a song I wrote about Athens while I was still living in Berlin and reluctant to resettle in my hometown. Many things have changed since then, but not my complicated relationship with the city I love to call my old/new home. Music-wise, I continue exploring the disco elements and the more organic sound of my Maenads EP, adding a “sturdy” rhythm section and floating synths & vocals that well-represent the paradoxes of my city – the edginess and fragility of Athens and its people.”

LYRICS:
Stories you heard
Money you spent
Voices you speak
Your accent is thick

Family – friends
You sit on a bench
Emotions now leak
You’re not at your peak

Help me go home
Don’t leave me alone

Athena
A goddess to blame
Athena
My city’s first name

Athena
Με κούρασες λίγο
Athena
Και τώρα θα φύγω

Help me go home
Don’t leave me alone

The Poem of a Clear Conscience is carried along by its lyrics and playful synths, keeping up with Sarah’s sarcastic flair for pop music. A poetic take on the times we live in and the incapability of our world leaders to find a common ground for matters that affect us all. “I find it troubling that politicians nowadays still choose to play on and by small party interests, when we’re faced with great challenges that question the longevity of our planet, as well as with big scale social, political, and economical instabilities that undermine the democratic values, worldwide”.

LYRICS:
Bright eyes
Gleaming in the skies
Watching over us
Emotions on the plus
A bee – queen of the hives
she sells all that she buys
Emotions on the plus
The DAX is on the plus

I am observing from right here
I didn’t move and so my conscience is clear
I didn’t move and so my conscience is clear
I am observing the world from right here

Bright eyes
Found refuge in the skies
Watching over us
Laughing at us
How the bee wins, how she thrives
How she sells all that she buys
What she always does
How her wealth she flaunts

I am observing from right here
I didn’t move and so my conscience is clear
I didn’t move and so my conscience is clear
I am observing from right here

I am observing the world from right here
I didn’t move and so my conscience is clear
I didn’t move and so my conscience is clear
I am observing from right here