
Date of issue: 10.09.2018
Song language: English
Said the King to the River |
«Up, M’Lady--Pack your things, this place is not your home. |
Nor was it ever, sever every tie, tonight we ride. |
Tonight we ride.» |
«And how we’ve trembled at the way that time’s |
Assembled little fires of desire in the tundra of our skin. |
So, do yourself a little favor, savor every time you waver |
For that shaking in my voice was only slyly feigned chagrin. |
Tonight we ride.» |
«Oh, Lover, uncover. |
I know it’s warm beneath your sheets |
And there is ice along the streets but listen—Lover, we will recover. |
But we’ve no time to waste with meddling in affairs |
We’ve locked so tightly in our dreams. |
We are not clean, we are not pure, we can not rest until we’re sure. |
So, rob your pretty little eyes of sleep’s disguise. |
I’m at your bedside with a bucket full of lies. |
So, clear your ears and listen--- |
Up, M’Lady--Pack your things, this place is not your home. |
But I know what is." |
And to the glorious past: |
You’ve opened my window but broken the glass. |
And I beseech thee, 'shed thy beauty.' |
For as a child leaves the womb and learns the cold, |
You have taught us perils in the present, |
And you will bring us peril in our surely-soon-to-be. |
Unless… |
The river’s not flooded this time. |
Oh, Precious Distance, |
Oh, Precious Pain, |
You’ve given me a name. |
And |
Etched it in the stones of the river bank. |
Oh, Precious Distance, |
Oh, Precious Pain, |
You’ve given us a name. |
You’ve |
Given us a name. |
«Rise!"Said the King to the River, |
«Never let up! |
No, bring us a flood and bring it hard!» |
«Freeze!"Said the Wind to the Water, |
«Never give in! |
No, build us a bridge! |
And build it strong and angry. |
Let it stills the King’s decree. |
Oh, you must contemplate the current, |
Boy, and command that coward cease. |
The boy breathes for his love says, 'I wait.' |
His love says, 'I wait.' |
She’s shouting out, «I will come back. |
Yes, I will come back! |
I will come—I have lived my life so uncomfortably. |
Darling, come for me. |
Come for me.» |
«Rise!"Said the Boy to his Lover, |
«Darling, get up. |
I’ve brought you my love, and brought it far!» |
«Leave!"Said the Girl to her lover, |
«I've given in. If love is a bridge, we built it wrong!» |
Curb your anger. |
Still your fists. |
She will never come back, she’ll never come back, she’ll never come— |
She will never come back, she’ll never come back, she’ll never come— |
Name | Year |
---|---|
Such Small Hands | 2018 |
Andria | 2018 |
The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit | 2011 |
King Park | 2011 |
New Storms for Older Lovers | 2018 |
Fall Down, Never Get Back Up Again | 2018 |
Damaged Goods | 2018 |
Bury Your Flame | 2018 |
How I Feel | 2010 |
Safer in the Forest/Love Song for Poor Michigan | 2011 |
Nobody, Not Even the Rain | 2018 |
Woman (reading) | 2014 |
Thirteen | 2016 |
Nine | 2015 |
Last Blues for Bloody Knuckles | 2018 |
Sad Prayers for Guilty Bodies | 2018 |
The Castle Builders | 2018 |
Woman (in mirror) | 2014 |
Future Wars | 2006 |
Why It Scares Me | 2010 |