Tijdens de vorige uitzending hebben we in Poëzie in Muziek het licht gericht op Gravenhurst, het pseudoniem voor John Nicolas Talbot (1977 – 2014). Hij was een Britse singer-songwriter, platenproducer, multi-instrumentalist en journalist.

We stonden onder andere stil bij zijn muzikale invloeden, de thema’s in zijn werk en de poëtische lyrics van zijn hand. Ter illustratie lieten we de songs The Diver, The Foundry en In Miniature hieronder. Hieronder diezelfde nummers (en de besproken teksten), maar dan in een andere uitvoering. Tot slot vind je ook nog bonusmoois, wat niet in de uitzending langskwam. (Om de hele special over Gravenhurst te luisteren klik je hier).

The Diver

It’s getting darker
And I’m still swimming
It hits me again
I’m getting deeper
And I’m still swimming
It hits me again

And I am never frightened
No, I am never ashamed
And you will never understand
The lengths I go to light your way

See, left behind on my own
I have the ghosts of autumn murders walk me home
See the girl on the shore
It’s my ideal, nothing more

It’s getting darker
And I’m still swimming
It hits me again
The sun is sinking
Pale blue salt-water breathing
It hits me again

And I am never frightened
No, I am never afraid
And you will never understand
The depths I sink to light your way

 

The Foundry

Two black wolves chase a
whitetail through the snow
Into a ring fence, there’s
nowhere left to go
For purity and industry
For the gathering dust on
aspen leaves
I’m watching wolves chase a
whitetail through the snow

And you won’t know when evil comes
Evil looks just like anyone
And I blame
I blame
I blame anyone but me

If you let them burn books
you’ll let them burn bodies
The man with the match could
be anybody
A uniform changes something
inside
Holding a gun makes you feel
so alive
And everyone else is doing it too
-it’s alright

And you won’t know when
evil comes
Evil looks just like anyone
I blame
I blame
I blame anyone but me

 

In miniature

They tried to capture the face
of a killer
in the eyes of a girl
The last image still on the retina
on the retina

They tried to capture and frame
every colour
Each eyelid a shutter
Each portrait a life time in
minature
in minature

Railway embankments in floodlight
they search for the truth
Marble skies, train cries
underground
Whalebone clues
Unearthed in pairs
Stained with the prayers
From ships that sink like the
hearts of the lonely
when nobody cares

 

I Turn my Face tot the Forest Floor

 

The Prize (FD Acoustic Session)

 

 

Diane van Gravenhurst is een cover. Het origineel is van Hüsker Dü, maar de song is vooral bekend geworden in de uitvoering door Therapy? (die eronder staat).

 

 

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