This is the final video in a four music video series. The four songs are standouts on Pains And Pleasures – they’re examples of Ben Lorentzen’s artistic breadth, his uncompromising songwriting and clear, forceful, unadorned singing. Lorentzen and video director Johan Anderson have made a series of...
You are what you love, not what loves you
And everything else is like dust
Sitting on small heaps of ashes
There is nothing here you can trust
Nothing here you can trust
And don’t you succumb to riches
Too be rich with contempt for the broke
From the day you are born you are dying
We will drift away like the smoke
Drift away like the smoke
I will leave behind what once was mine
You can take whatever you need
And the Alabaster Jar will shine
When you close your eyes to sleep
Make each day a line in your swan song
Knowing winter is well under way
And every end’s another beginning
And now I must go, you must stay
I must go, you must stay
Oh void, into the void
Go through the mist and through the coil
Nothing has changed everything must change
If they say it will last then it is to foil
Alabaster Jar was written by .
Alabaster Jar was produced by Ben Lorentzen.
Ben Lorentzen released Alabaster Jar on Wed Feb 15 2017.