The Weakerthans
The Weakerthans
The Weakerthans
The Weakerthans
The Weakerthans
The Weakerthans
The Weakerthans
The Weakerthans
The Weakerthans
The Weakerthans
The Weakerthans
The Weakerthans
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...
[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 was written by John K. Samson & Stephen Carroll & John P. Sutton & Jason Tait.
Elegy for Elsabet was produced by Ian Blurton & The Weakerthans.
The Weakerthans released Elegy for Elsabet on Tue Jul 25 2000.