Elegy for Elsabet by The Weakerthans
Elegy for Elsabet by The Weakerthans

Elegy for Elsabet

The Weakerthans * Track #8 On Left and Leaving

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Elegy for Elsabet by The Weakerthans

Release Date
Tue Jul 25 2000
Performed by
The Weakerthans
Produced by
Ian Blurton & The Weakerthans
Writed by
John K. Samson & Stephen Carroll & John P. Sutton & Jason Tait
About

This song is about a young girl who is hearing-impaired and frustrated with her affliction: she was not born deaf, as it is mentioned that she has a “memory of human voices”, but has lost her hearing in a manner never specified in the song.

We hear Elsabet’s story through a narrator who is intensel...

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Elegy for Elsabet Lyrics

[Verse 1]
So the fields are stubble, the garden's done
Where the scary scarecrow stands
Sees her holding up horizons with her hands

She's so tired of reading daddy's lips
That essay on a frown
Watch her memories of human voices drown

[Chorus]
Let horsey bray break between the thunder boom
Make grasses' swish meet the crickets' ring
Let every sound consecrate our whispering
The words that Betta never heard

[Verse 2]
So the back lanes tie the city down
A mess of dirty string
Winter dies the same way every spring

As the sky tries on its uniform
Of turned off TV gray
And the ways we watched her watch us walk away

[Chorus]
Let every rain clatter down at groaning streets
Make footsteps tick, talk to echoed walls
Let every sound consecrate our whispering
The words that Betta never heard

Let every wind howl and creak the creaking doors
To rooms that too much has happened in
Let every sound consecrate our whispering
The words that Betta never heard

Elegy for Elsabet Q&A

Who wrote Elegy for Elsabet's ?

Elegy for Elsabet was written by John K. Samson & Stephen Carroll & John P. Sutton & Jason Tait.

Who produced Elegy for Elsabet's ?

Elegy for Elsabet was produced by Ian Blurton & The Weakerthans.

When did The Weakerthans release Elegy for Elsabet?

The Weakerthans released Elegy for Elsabet on Tue Jul 25 2000.

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