Owen Pallett – Red Sun No. 5

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  General Comment:The album's about a farmer called lewis, and i think in this song he's realised that he's living a bit of a lie, and that the words he says to his wife are that which he says to his lover, who is a man so they can only be together under 'the cover of night'. maybe...

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    i get the sense that he just thinks his entire being is that of a server to his god. i think "HIS LOVE" is Owen's.

    Flag zoolahon June 17, 2010  

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    I think he's having an epiphany about the worth of his life and that it is meaningless without devotion to Lewis, as you both suggest. So he is kind of saying goodbye to his wife before he begins his clerical life.

    Flag athecondoron July 01, 2010  
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  Lyric Correction:Correct lyrics from the cd booklet:
  
  I'd been living through days
  Carrying no burden
  But the shit of cattle
  And my resignation
  
  Until the sun rose crimson
  Crept across my limbs and
  I saw that they were earthen
  That they decay and worsen
  
  And from my ginger chest, there
  Came the sound of thunder
  I am not a father
  I am not a farmer
  
  I tremble to speak of it.
  Held her in my arms and
  Pressed her to my heart and
  Pressed my hand o'er her lips
  
  I murmured words of his love
  I will be his baron
  With him I have an ending
  With him I have completion
  And the cover of night

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  General Comment:Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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