The Universe and Me

Thursday, July 20, 2006

Comforting sounds

In recent wanderings around the web, I stumbled onto a site that had a song embedded, as so many of them do. I found the song extremely lovely and it stuck in my mind so I had to look up who recorded it. Turned out to be “The Zookeeper’s Boy” by a Danish band named Mew. It’s a single from their most recent CD titled Glass Handed Kites. Their own website describes their music as: complex and turbulent soundscapes to universe-quaking crescendo, sprawling, soaring bliss-rock, a sense of glacial fairy tale wonderment, flinging musical ideas, distorted nightmare images and heartbreak choruses, ethereal ballads with an other-worldy glisten. Just my thing! Listen to some of their songs at their My Space site. You can still vote for this band to be the Next Thing at Yahoo. The video to "The Zookeeper's Boy" can be found at You Tube. Here are the song's dream-inspired lyrics:

The Zookeeper's Boy - Mew

Are you my lady, are you?
Are you my lady, are you?

If I don't make it back from the city
Then it is only because I am drawn away
For you see, evidently there's a dark storm coming
And the chain on my swing is squeaking like a mouse

So are you my lady, are you?
So are you my lady, are you?
The rain, the rain, the rain is falling down
The cars remain

You're tall just like a giraffe
You have to climb to find its head
But if there's a glitch
You're an ostrich
You've got your head in the sand

In a submersible I can hardly breathe
As it takes me inside, so the light sings
Answer me truthfully, do the clouds kiss you?
With meringue-coloured hair, I know they cannot

Santa Ana winds bring seasickness
Zookeeper hear me out
How dare you go?
Cold in the rain…

Are you my lady, are you?
Are you my lady, are you?
The rain, the rain, the rain is falling down
The cars remain
I could not be seen with you
Working half the time and looking fine
In cars re-made

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