Fire - Kasabain
Camping #32
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Processing by Amelie Andrezel
Camping #31
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Processing by Amelie Andrezel
I can’t figure out what’s on the table between us… it looks strangely like a brain?
Camping #2
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Processing by Amelie Andrezel
Camping #3
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Camping #1
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Processing by Amelie Andrezel
Camping #11
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Processing by Amelie Andrezel
Carthage - Amelie Andrezel
I have been thinking about writing this song for a while now and I was too tired today to do anything else. It’s inspired by a lot of things—including the sack of Alexandria and the burning of the Great Library—but also three T. S. Eliot poems: The Waste Land, The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock, and Ash Wednesday.
The following lines are from The Waste Land:
To Carthage then I came
Burning burning burning burning
O Lord Thou pluckest me out
O Lord Thou pluckest
burning.
This is in reference to an excerpt from St. Augustine’s Confessions:
To Carthage then I came, where a cauldron of unholy loves sang all about mine ears.
Anyway, do enjoy.
Carthage
Music and Lyrics by Amelie Andrezel
I went to the librarian
He called me down to the sea
We watched the warships fan the fire
They thought would set them free
I don’t remember it as holy
I don’t remember it as bright
I think he said, “It’s only thunder”
I remember praying he was right…
Burning
Oh lord thou pluckest me out
Burning
I woke up on the hardwood
Got to sleep at 5 am
Dragged my body to the river
Just to dredge it up again
I swam upstream against the pilgrims
Shoulder to shoulder wading by
But blessed are angels, traveling salesmen
All creatures of the dark, sacred night
Burning
Oh lord thou pluckest me out
Burning
Princes and sailors
Mathematicians and knaves
A little blood spilled on the pages
Alleluia! We are saved
Burning
Oh lord thou pluckest me out
Burning
Oh my lady of the desert
If he sits beneath your tree
Spread your ashes across his forehead
Leave us singing, each to each…
Burning
Oh lord thou pluckest me out
Burning
