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Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow (advanced promo) - inlay
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Publisher: published by opium (arts) ltd. / copyright control

Length: 7:08

Date: October 17, 2005

Copyright: Samadhi Sound


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produced and arranged by david sylvian, steve jansen

steve jansen: sample programming, percussion, keyboards
ryuichi sakamoto: piano
arve henriksen: trumpet
tommy blaize, derek green, beverlei brown, andrea grant: backing vocals
david sylvian: keyboards, vocals

Lyrics

Her skin was darker than ashes
And she had something to say
Bout being naked to the elements
At the end of yet another day
And the rain on her back that continued to fall
From the bruise of her lips
Swollen, fragile, and small

And the bills that you paid with were worth nothing at all
A lost foreign currency
Multi-coloured, barely reputable
Like the grasses that blew in the warm summer breeze
Well she offered you this to do as you pleased

And where is the poetry?
Didn’t she promise us poetry?

The redwoods, the deserts, the tropical ease
The swamps and the prairie dogs, the Joshua trees
The long straight highways from dirt road to tar
Hitching your wheels to truck, bus, or car

And the lives that you hold in the palm of your hand
You toss them aside small and damn near unbreakable
You drank all the water and you pissed yourself dry
Then you fell to your knees and proceeded to cry

And who could feel sorry for a drunkard like this
In a democracy of dunces with a parasites kiss?

And where are the stars?
Didn’t she promise us stars?

Nothing will ever be as it was
The price has been paid with a thousand loose shoes
Pictures are pasted on shop windows and walls
Like a poor mans Boltanski
Lost one and all.

Sell, sell
Bid your farewell
Come, come
Save yourself
Give yourself over
Pushing your consciousness
Deep into every atom and cell,
Sell,
Bid your farewell
Come, come
Save yourself
Give yourself over
Pushing your consciousness
Deep into every atom and cell,
Sell,
Bid your farewell
Come, come
Save yourself
Give yourself over
Pushing your consciousness
Deep into every atom and cell

Artists related to this track

Photo: Hiroshi Nomura
Sakamoto, Ryuichi (performer)
Steve Jansen - copyright Dirk Tholenaar for davidsylvian.net
Steve Jansen (music)
David Sylvian
David Sylvian (music)
David Sylvian
David Sylvian (lyrics)
Picture by Kevin Westenberg
Nine Horses (performer)
picture by Rune Mæhre/Rikskonsertene
Arve Henriksen (performer)

This track can be found on:

Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow (advanced promo) - inlay
Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow (advanced promo)

This is the advanced promo of Samadhi Sound with a printed CDR and CD inlay.

Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow [front]
Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow

Stunning group project featuring David Sylvian, Steve Jansen and Burnt Friedma....

disc in box
Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow (Belgium advanced promo)

Exclusive distibuted to small record shops and journalists in Belgium initiate....

Video

More information: http://www.ninehorses.com
 

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