No Rest unseen video
Today we listened to a track called Dry the River by a band called No Rest. I hadn't heard this song before but we listened to it, so from listening to it the first time I already knew it was an emotion evoking song, with slow parts and then fast emotive parts. The video was a mix of narrative and performance, and some of it was quite shocking with different animal corpses etc. The video doesn't really link into the song lyrics, but it is effective and memorable nethertheless.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iUHfAChgBA
Lyrics-
I used to be a king alone
Like Solomon or Rehoboam
And in the eaves, the Corvidae
Did jealous keep my picture frames
And everything did oxidate in place.
But then you came, a single cell
With astrolabe and carousel
And algebra and symmetry
And none of this was lost on me
And I could see how still I'd been before
If I don't eat, I don't sleep at all
Like limbs in procession,
Like so many birds
Stampeding like oxen,
Our hearts are a herd
I loved you in the bed
I loved you in the best way possible
I loved you in the bed
Did you see the light in my heart?
Did you see the sweat on my brow?
Did you see the fear in my heart?
Did you see me bleeding out?
I loved you in the bed
I loved you in the best way possible
I loved you in the best way possible
I loved you in the best way possible
I loved you in the best…