Radiant With Terror
John Vanderslice * Track #7 On Pixel Revolt
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Radiant With Terror by John Vanderslice
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John VandersliceAbout
These lyrics are based on Robert Lowell’s poem “Fall 1961.” In a 2011 interview, Vanderslice explained:
I love [Robert] Lowell, his language is very surprising and terse, and yet he’s always emotionally open and generous. I have always wanted to make an entire record of Lowell poems.
Radiant With Terror Lyrics
Radiant with terror lyrics adapted from
Robert lowell's "fall 1961"
Adapted from robert lowell's brilliant "fall 1961."
"back and forth and back and forth
Goes the tock of the orange, bland, ambassadorial
Face of the moon on the grandfather clock
All autumn long, the chafe and jar of dirty bomb
We have talked ourselves to death
I swim like a minnow
Behind my studio window
Our end drifts nearer
The moon lifts
Radiant with terror
The state
Is a diver under a glass bell. ..."
A father's no shield
For his child
We are like a lot of wild
Spiders crying together
But without tears."