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Only six tracks. Fragile like snowflakes. They settle in the heart, and disappear. They could have been something else, perhaps. A snowman, probably. But no, they are just six snowflakes that gently settle on your face. And as they melt, they streak your face like a tear. A timeless, senseless pain. Six fragile, wintry, dark and trembling tracks. The voice is unmistakably that of Will Oldham. The sounds are the trembling, suffocating, and dark sounds of the early Palace. Everything else is just precariousness. From Leonard Cohen's "Winter Lady" (Travelling lady stay a while/Until the night is over/I'm just a station on your way/I know I'm not your lover), to the specter of boredom and time that doesn't pass in "Christmastime In The Mountains". Where the ghosts of repressed and unspent anger (We need an enemy/I'm saving all my rage for you) are eerily reflected in a darkly fairytale landscape of dreams trampled like snow.
Six bittersweet indie-folk candies, from the dazzling opening of "Agnes, Queen Of Sorrow" - which shamelessly begs for a boundless need for love - to the twisted and thorny lyrics of "All Gone, All Gone". Where introspection and hermeticism grip you in a breathless clutch of cold and ice. To culminate in "Werner's Last Blues To Blokbuster", whose lyrics would certainly not be out of place among the masterpieces of contemporary poetry. And just that She said: I washed my hands of him/But he thought I was washing my hair, to wonder: but then why is this album called "Hope"? Maybe because hope belongs to those who are alone, who have no one. While trust belongs to those who have someone by their side. Because it's always wrong to tell someone who is hurting: Hope, maybe tomorrow you won't feel this way anymore. Instead, we need to say: Trust. Because I'm here. Now.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Agnes, Queen of Sorrow (04:18)
If you wait another day
I will wait a day
If you wait another day
I will wait a day
Okay
Okay
If you wait another day
I will wait a day
If you wait another day
I will wait a day
Every time I think you say
It's time for us to go our way
I say wait another day
If you wait another day
I will wait a day
If you wait another day
I will wait a day
Got a letter that did say
That the kid had passed away
And everything it didn't say
If you wait another day
I will wait a day
If you wait another day
I will wait a day
The time has got me in its sway
Though I'd like to ride away
I will wait another day
If you wait another day
I will wait a day
If you wait another day
I will wait a day
If you wait another day
I will wait a day
If you wait another day
I will wait a day
03 Winter Lady (02:51)
Travelling lady stay a while
Until the night is over
I'm just a station on your way
I know I'm not your lover
I lived with a child of snow
When I was a soldier
And I fought every man for her
Until the nights grew colder
She used to wear her hair like you
Except when she was sleeping
And then she'd weave it on a loom
Of smoke and gold and breathing
And why are you so quiet now
Standing there in the doorway?
You chose your journey long before
You came upon this highway
Travelling lady stay a while
Until the night is over
I'm just a station on your way
I know I'm not your lover
from: Leonard Cohen's __Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs
04 Christmastime in the Mountains (01:38)
should I play ball with the dogs
or walk away
should I play ball with the dogs
or walk away
should I take your hand
walk across the sand
time is the enemy
time is the guy
enemy behind enemy lines
we need an enemy
I'm saving all my rage for you
we need an enemy
I'm saving all my rage
it's christmastime in the mountains
everything is white
tonight
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