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Spanish Samouraï
01:39
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I measure every grief I meet
With narrow, probing, eyes
I wonder if It weighs like mine
Or has an easier size.
I wonder if they bore it long
Or did it just begin
I could not tell the Date of Mine
It feels so old a pain
I wonder if it hurts to live
And if they have to try
And whether could they choose between
It would not be to die
I note that some gone patient long
At length, renew their smile
An imitation of a light
That has so little oil
I wonder if when years have piled
Some thousands on the harm
That hurt them early such a lapse
Could give them any balm
Or would they go on aching still
Through centuries of nerve
Enlightened to a larger pain
In contrast with the love
The grieved are many I am told
There is the various cause
Death is but one and comes but once
And only nails the eyes
There's grief of want and grief of cold
A sort they call "Despair"
There's banishment from native eyes
In sight of native air
And though I may not guess the kind
Correctly yet to me
A piercing comfort it affords
In passing calvary
To note the fashions of the cross
And how they're mostly worn
Still fascinated to presume
That some are like my own
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Killing yourself softly
03:38
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What is a gift to you is just life going through
- your eyes can not see, for your grief all bluries...
You are so tired that rest is like fire,
burnin' what is left of your dried desire :
in your empty breast lies your lovely sire;
in your overweighted breast, you made him a prisoner.
Gisèle, don't be sorry, please,
be sure he's safe, ma belle, in the holy burly.
Paralysed actions...
your will burns, vibrates and calls your turn !
You will be quiet delivered from your guilt.
Now fishes in your net are free to help and built.
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(I cut parts of the poem of W. Blake)
How sweet i'd roam from field to field
tasting all the summer's pride
'till i, the prince of love beheld
who in the sunny beams did glide
He chewed lillies for my hair
blushing roses for my brows
he let me through his gardens fair
where all his golden pleasures grow
How sweet i'd roam from field to field
tasting all the summer's pride
'till i, the prince of love beheld
who in the sunny beams did glide
With sweet may dues my wings were wet
Phoebus fired my vocal rage
he caught me in his silken net
shut me in his golden cage
He loves to sit and hear me sing
then's laughing and plays with me
then streches out my golden wings
and mocks my loss of liberty
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Steam
01:25
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Egregore
01:52
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Childhood is gone, so are fairy tales,
even if you've got drones and an oblivion spell :
my heart is not for sale, nor are my bones;
i am seeking out no one but the company of stones...
Those images and fantasies to drive minds blury
and this evilish scenery to impress bullies...
are they mendatory ?!
We want some, though, until our time has come.
Each and one of us who fights will be condamned,
formated and respawned...
Take a firm hold !
The last crunchy little thing is normal, banal
- obviously jumpin' fences is lethal and gossips unstoppable.
Never let silence rule.
Farts smell like honey
Heart says with money
All i hear is me, me, me...
You opress, you opress, you opress !!
You wanna keep control :
for struggle i call !
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Must intend truth
02:24
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(This song contains quotes of a text on religions and individual responsability written by William Blake. His point was about being aware of the poetic genius hidden to the soul by religious dogmas.)
All religions are one
as a true method of knowledge
so all religions... in outward form...
Infinite variety
by the ancients was called
an angel, a spirit, a demon
All men are alike in outward form
but must intend truth
a young lad shall speak from his heart
but he must intend truth
as there are no other known lands...
as all men are alike
so're religions
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The sunny sadness
04:20
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Atmospheres never seen before
coming from nowhere like a sore
we are tired and bored
waiting to be slaugtered
Hundreds of eyes pretend to hear whispers
as in a rotten legend full of monsters
Old recipies...
I am, you are, we are... a strange disease...
Pre-chewed ideas like sad vehicules at rush hour,
parading in traffic circles.
All thoughts are anticipated,
a global reflex drives all complicated
Each sentence is learned, assimilated;
feets glued, sexes toyed, minds twisted.
Feeding, rewarding, punishing :
enjoy living the dream...
Divided up comfort, rightfull uglyness,
with a sphinter instead of nose on the face;
Twitches coming from nowhere,
contagious, indelebile,
so predictable...
Few parasites can condamn the whole organism :
loosers hang around !
bang ! bang !
It will be called sedition
but it is survival
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Sweet Mary the first time she ever was there
came to the bal room among the fair
The young men and maidens around her throngue
and these are the words upon every tongue :
"An angel is here from the heavenly climes
or again does return the golden times !"
Her eyes outshined every brilliant ray,
she opens her lips, 'tis the month of may...
Mary moves in soft beauty and conscious delight
(to augment with) sweet smiles all the joys of the night :
nor one blushes to own to the rest of the fair,
that sweet love and beauty are worthy our care.
In the morning, the villagers, arose with delight
and repeated with pleasure all the joys of the night
and mary arose among friends to be free...
Some said she was proud, some called her a whore,
some, when she passed by, shut the door...
A damped cold came over her,
her blushes all fled, her lillies,
her roses are blighted and shed !
Why was i born with a different face ?
Why was i not born like this envious race ?
Why did heaven adorn me with bountyfull hands
and then set me dawn in an envious land ?
...to be weak as lamb, smooth as a dove
and not to raise envy is called christian love...
I will humble my beauty, i will not dress fine,
i will keep from the bal and my eyes shall not shine,
and if any girl's lover forsakes her for me :
i will refuse him my hand and from envy be free...
She went out in the morning, attired plain and neat;
"Poor mary's gone mad" said the child in the street.
She trembled and she wept, sitting on the bed side
she forgot it was night, she trembled and she cried.
She forgot it was night, she forgot it was morn
- soft memory imprinted with faces of scorn.
With faces of scorn and with eyes of disdain,
like fool friends inhabiting mary's mild brain !
She remembers no face from the human divine :
all faces have envy sweet mary but thine.
And thine is a face of sweet love and despair,
and thine a face of mild sorrow and care,
and thine is a face of white terror and fear,
that shall never be quiet 'till laid on its bier !!
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Will I just nod ?
02:03
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Again and again,
will i just nod my head again ?
I had to feel my deadfull will if i wanted to kill it and stand still
I won't cry 'cos i was already dead.
No lullabies, nothing else to be said.
Again,
I had to pay my dues to be shure i was reborn again...
Born... again.
Will i ?
will i just nod ?!?
will I ?
will i just nod ?!?
will i just nod my head again ?
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Whenever I enter
more than mortal fire
burns in my soul
and does my song inspire
Fresh from the duewy hill, the merry year
smiles on my head, mounts its flaming car
Around my young brows, the laurel rises a shade
and rising glories beam around my head
My feet are winged while over the duewy loan
and i meet my maiden risen like the morn
Oh bless those holy feet
like angel's feet,
Oh bless those limbs
beaming with heavenly light !
Like an angel glittering in the sky,
in times of innocence and holy joy :
the joyfull sheperd stops his gratefull song
to hear the music of an angel's tongue !
So when she speaks, the voice of heaven i hear...
So when we walk, nothing impure comes near :
each field seems eden, each calm retreat,
each village seems the haunt of holy feet...
But that sweet village where my black eyed maid
closes her eyes in sleep beneath night's shade.
Fresh from the duewy hill, the merry year
smiles on my head, mounts its flaming car
Around my young brows, the laurel rises a shade
and rising glories beam around my head
My feet are winged while over the duewy loan
and i meet my maiden risen like the morn.
Whenever I enter
more than mortal fire
burns in my soul
and does my song inspire
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When early morn walks forth in sober grey,
then to my black eyed maid i haste away
When evening sits beneath her dusky bower
and gently sights away the silent hour...
The village bell alarms,
away i go
and the vail darkens at my pensive woe.
To that sweet village where my black eyed maid
does drop a tear beneath the silent shade
I turn my eyes and pensive as i go
curse my black stars and bless my pleasing woe.
Oft when the summer sleeps among the trees,
whispering faint murmurs to the scanty breeze,
I walk the village around
if at her side a youth doth walks in stolen joy and pride !
I curse my stars in bitter grief and woe
that made my love so high and me so low
Oh
Shall she ever prove false,
his limbs I'd tear
and throw all the pity in the burning air !
I'd curse bright fortune for my mixed lot
then I'd die in peace and be forgot...
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