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Rating: know...
on an elementary, obsessive, and hypnotic blues chord, comes the scream of pink moon (a scream in this so gentle album?)...
then, again, a sparse telegram of the soul...and it seems a point of no return...and you almost imagine the arrival of the word end, the breaking of the instrument's strings...
here, the tension is at its peak...and nick really is no longer the melancholic harmony engraver...and he no longer dresses the sad girls in floral clothes...
how many great poets have hidden their despair with the ambiguous sweetness of a lullaby, to make it even clearer...in a way, a good part of pink moon is just that...a good part...not all...and certainly not here...
I've listened to this song a lot in the car, at very high volume...yes, because the volume should be turned up..."you know I love you, you know it doesn’t matter, you know I see you, you know I'm not here" the lyrics are all here, apart from the scream...and there's really no need for many words...
...and the total abandonment of harmony, so rare in him, makes this song almost an involuntary swing of the truth machine...the small mirror that clearly reveals what was only intuited before...
the vampire is an expert in these mirrors...in fact, to put it better, he is one of these mirrors, that even if he doesn’t see himself reflected, he reflects others...
here’s the essential, he says about this song...the point on the road from which you cannot avoid passing… only after will you be granted a restful bar, a kind waitress...a small two-penny paradise for your two-penny life...
my god what a phrase, a small two-penny paradise for your two-penny life!!!...ah, the hands of the antiretoricum are going crazy...buzzing, clinking, screaming, rampaging...wouldn't it be better to play darts? or be in the arms of a sugar loaf?...
oh to read Aunt Emily, that solitary lady who, some time ago, had lost a world...
"did she then find that world?" oh yes... "it is recognized by the diadem of stars that frames its forehead"...
the vampire doesn’t know English...and when he reads emily he certainly doesn’t bother with the side-by-side translation...like he didn’t bother with nick's verses before knowing me...but for a while, I started translating them for him...and he began to find strange, mysterious resonances between the knight with a guitar and the bride of terror...
in chime, for example, after those games that make people say you’re alone and strange, nick talks about the pearls (the diadem) around his face ...and the pearls (the diadem) assure him that everything will be okay...
oh these diadem pearls have literally driven the vampire insane...
and that lost world of emily is nothing... "it might go unnoticed to the eyes of a rich man" but not to his "thrifty eyes"...
oh yes it's nothing, just like that pebble nick talks about...and that "is a jewel for the city man"...
like, "chime" is another song...oh yes, excuse me...I've gone off-topic as usual...
even though chime is convenient...think about its complex lyrics...
those were still the days when nick didn’t write telegrams...
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Pink Moon (02:06)
I saw it written and I saw it say
Pink moon is on its way
And none of you stand so tall
Pink moon gonna get you all
It's a pink moon
It's a pink, pink, pink, pink, pink moon...
02 Place to Be (02:43)
When I was young, younger than before
I never saw the truth hanging from the door
And now I'm older see it face to face
And now I'm older gotta get up clean the place
And I was green, greener than the hill
Where flowers grew and the sun shone still
Now I'm darker than the deepest sea
Just hand me down, give me a place to be
And I was strong, strong inside
I thought I'd see when day was done
Now I'm weaker than the palest blue
Oh, so weak in this need for you
03 Road (02:02)
You can say the sun is shining if you really want to
I can see the moon and it seems so clear
You can take the road that takes you to the stars now
I can take a road that'll see me through
I can take a road that'll see me through.
You can take a road that takes you to the stars now
I can take a road that'll see me through
I can take a road that'll see me through
I can take a road that'll see me through.
06 Things Behind the Sun (03:57)
Please beware of them that stare
They'll only smile to see you while
Your time away
And once you've seen what they have been
To win the earth just won't seem worth
Your night or your day
Who'll hear what I say.
Look around you find the ground
Is not so far from where you are
But not too wise
For down below they never grow
They're always tired and charms are hired
From out of their eyes
Never surprise.
Take your time and you'll be fine
And say a prayer for people there
Who live on the floor
And if you see what's meant to be
Don't name the day or try to say
It happened before.
Don't be shy you learn to fly
And see the sun when day is done
If only you see
Just what you are beneath a star
That came to stay one rainy day
In autumn for free
Yes, be what you'll be.
Please beware of them that stare
They'll only smile to see you while
Your time away
And once you've seen what they have been
To win the earth just won't seem worth
Your night or your day
Who'll hear what I say.
Open up the broken cup
Let goodly sin and sunshine in
Yes that's today.
And open wide the hymns you hide
You find reknown while people frown
At things that you say
But say what you'll say
About the farmers and the fun
And the things behind the sun
And the people round your head
Who say everything's been said
And the movement in your brain
Sends you out into the rain.
08 Parasite (03:36)
When lifting the mask from a local clown
feeling down like him.
Seeing the light in a station bar and travelling far in sin.
Sailing downstairs to the Northern line
watching the shine of the shoes.
Hearing the trials of the people there
who's to care if they lose.
Take a look you might see me on the ground,
for I am the parasite of this town.
Dancing a jig in a church with chimes
a sign of the times today.
Hearing no bell from a steeple tall
people all in dismay.
Falling so far on a silver spoon
making the moon for fun.
Changing a robe for a size to small
people all get hung.
Take a look you might see me coming through,
for I am the parasite who travels two by two.
Lifting the mask from a local clown
feeling down again.
Seeing the light in a station bar
and travelling far in sin.
Sailing downstairs to the Northern line
watching the shine of the shoes.
Hearing the trials of the people there
who's to care if they lose.
Take a look you might see me on the ground,
for I am the parasite of this town.
Take a look you might see me in the dirt,
for I am the parasite who hangs from your skirt.
10 Harvest Breed (01:37)
Falling fast and falling free you look to find a friend
Falling fast and falling free this could just be the end
Falling fast you stoop to touch and kiss the flowers that bend
And you're ready now
For the harvest breed
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