The third song off of Mount Eerie’s fifth LP, Clear Moon.
The droney quality of the album continues her with slow, woozy strings and keys creating a thick soundscape, mixed in with these wavy drones, are some sparse electronic-sounding drum sounds.
To me this song alwasys sounded like a sort of acce...
If I look
Or if I don't look
Clouds are always passing over
The place I live
The place I live
Passing under
My feet while my mind wanders
In a sea of fog
On a ridge
Seeing through a hole in the fog
("A thought out of nowhere comes passing through")
I say to myself
("I say to myself, like a voice on the wind")
"Behold"
But I see nothing
Rocks and water and wood
Not speaking to me
("Left alone to wander above")
Slow and uneasy and alive
("wanderer above the sea of fog")
I mean the place lives
And clouds pass over
("sitting on a ridge and watching clouds pass over")
The landscape
A blanket on stone
("where an ocean of glaciers rolled")
Land waves are rolling
("Through a fog, this is a brief life.")
("Short and cold, momentarily.")
("A life as brief as the morning fog")
Momentarily
I come out from under
The Place I Live was written by Phil Elverum.
The Place I Live was produced by Phil Elverum.
Mount Eerie released The Place I Live on Tue May 22 2012.