One of the singles of the upcoming Mount Eerie record, “Night Palace”. Phil Elverum is using the metaphor of a walk through the town as a metaphor for death, and trying to move on from tragedy.
[Verse 1]
Walking away
Shedding slow the generations
The towns dissolve
In my drumming footfall
(Discarded clothing on the ground)
[Verse 2]
But I still carry it all
(The air cool and blue)
The livelihoods, the expectations
The cities of never stopping thoughts
So l just still walk
Dragging through stone
Piled alive with associations
(Dream remembering the snake that crawls through old skin sloughing off)
Since all time trailing behind me
Back into the mist
I walk until it's all fallen away
Coming into a clearing
There's a pause between the breaths
And I look up
[Chorus]
Mist kissed face
Vast grass shuffling
Treeless place
Expanse encircling
The sky on my lips
Fog pulled in slow
[Instrumental Break]
[Outro]
Until I too dissipate
Find me blinking at dawn
I Walk was written by Phil Elverum.
I Walk was produced by Phil Elverum.
Mount-eerie released I Walk on Mon Sep 02 2024.