Agnes Obel, speaking to each track:
‘Aventine’ was a song that I wrote on piano first and then I worked with some viola samples. It was very joyful and playful but it had an edge of something else to it as well, which was not necessarily as joyful and playful as its other parts. And then it felt li...
[Verse 1]
Will you go ahead to the Aventine
In the holly red in the night?
Dirt under my shoe from the old at heart
Right under you, grinning in the dark
[Chorus]
You carried my heart in the night
To bury the wave in the tide
You carried me onto the fields
[Verse 2]
There is a grove, there is a plot
Deep in the snow, breaking your heart
One step ahead, a thousand miles
A trail ablaze to the Aventine
[Chorus]
You carried my heart in the night
To marry the wave with the tide
You carried me onto the fields
You carried my heart in the night
To bury the wave in the tide
You carried me onto the fields
[Post-Chorus]
Play it down, down, down...
Play it down, down, down...
Aventine was written by Agnes Obel.
Aventine was produced by Agnes Obel.
Agnes Obel released Aventine on Mon Sep 30 2013.