Released at October 20, 2008
Release date:
October 20, 2008
Copyright:
David Sylvian/Opium (Arts) Ltd.
Length:
2:27
Status:
Official
Publisher:
ECM Records GmbH
Lyrics
Morning, you lay sleepingYour small body clinging tightly to mine
With frightening dependency
Life defining, impossible to betray
And with that
The mattress rose
Set adrift on the burgeoning emotional tide
Colliding with the once stationary objects
Of an uninhabited life
What had been concealed
Was exhaled from god knows where
Colour-drained, unsalvageable
Shape shifting
And, with function relinquished
Resigned from service
Two blue sleeping bags
Nudged against one another
Bearing the once warm imprint of our bodies
The sun-baked stone garden
Retracted its promise
It was cold in that place of perpetual summer
If you were afraid you didnt show it
You who were born bearing the face
Of irrepressible grief
So as not to disappoint you
I lay motionless
Rapt by the rise and stall of your breathing
Your fingertips and thighs
Quietly affirming my place at your side.
From Arve Henriksen’s album Cartography
Guitar – Eivind Aarset
Mixed by Erik Honoré , Jan Bang
Music by Arve Henriksen , Audun Kleive , Eivind Aarset , Jan Bang
Percussion – Audun Kleive
Produced by Erik Honoré , Jan Bang
Samples by Jan Bang
Trumpet – Arve Henriksen
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