“Lawns of Dawns” opens Nico’s second studio album The Marble Index, right after the one-minute “Prelude”, and is said to be one of the first songs Nico wrote herself.
It is inspired by her peyote visions with Jim Morrison.
[Verse 1]
Can you follow me?
Can you follow my distresses
My caresses, fiery guesses?
Swim and sink into
Early morning messes
[Verse 2]
He blesses you, he blesses me
The day the night caresses
Caresses you, caresses me
Can you follow me?
[Verse 3]
Dawn, your guise has filled my nights with fear
At each closing of my eyes
You never see these pictures in my mind
Can you follow me?
[Verse 4]
Aside from leaving overdrawn caresses
Aside from having thrown a joke on you and me
Can you follow me?
[Verse 5]
I cannot understand the way I feel
Until I rest on lawns of dawns
Can you follow me?
Lawns of Dawns was written by Nico.
Lawns of Dawns was produced by Frazier Mohawk.
The light of the dawn was a very deep green and I believed I was upside down and the sky was the desert which had become a garden and then the ocean. I do not swim and I was frightened when it was water and more resolved when it was land. I felt embraced by the sky-garden.
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