Death Singing
Patti Smith * Track #8 On Peace and Noise
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Death Singing by Patti Smith
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Patti wrote this song for Benjamin Smoke, a poet and singer-songwriter (front-man of the bands Smoke and the Opal Foxx Quartet). He opened for Patti at a concert in 1997 (the same year Peace and Noise came out). He died in 1999 of liver failure due to Hepatitis C at age 39. (Source: Collected Lyrics...
Death Singing Lyrics
In the straw-colored light
In light rapidly changing
On a life rapidly fading
Have you seen death singing
Have you seen death singing
With a throat smooth as a lamb
Yet dry as a branch not snapping
He throws back his head
And he does not sing a thing mournful
Have you seen death singing
Have you seen death singing
Have you seen death singing
In the straw-colored light
He sings a black embrace
And white opals swimming
In a child's leather purse
Have you seen death swimming
Have you seen death swimming
With a throat smooth as a lamb
Yet dry as a branch not snapping
He throws back his head
And does not sing a thing mournful
Have you seen death singing
Have you seen death singing
Have you seen death singing
In the straw-colored light
He sings of youth enraged
And the burning of Atlanta
And these viral times
And May ribbons streaming
And straw-colored curls a'turning
A mother's vain delight
And woe to the sun
And woe to the dawn
And woe to the young
Another hearse is drawn
Have you seen death singing
In the straw-colored light
Death Singing Q&A
Who wrote Death Singing's ?
Death Singing was written by Patti Smith.
Who produced Death Singing's ?
Death Singing was produced by Patti Smith.
When did Patti Smith release Death Singing?
Patti Smith released Death Singing on Tue Sep 30 1997.