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Take my hand and pray with me
My final days in company
The devil now has come for me
And helicopters circling the scene
And I pray for rest
Could you pray for us?
We know he loves you the best
We know he loves you the best
The light's inside my cave
I'm tired of my cave
Oh, these drugs, they play on me these terrible ways
They don't pay like they used to pay
I used to make it day to day
No one cares for me
I keep no company
I have minimal needs
And now they are through with me
Now they are through with me
My final days in company
The devil now has come for me
And helicopters circling the scene
And I pray for rest
Could you pray for us?
We know he loves you the best
We know he loves you the best
The light's inside my cave
I'm tired of my cave
Oh, these drugs, they play on me these terrible ways
They don't pay like they used to pay
I used to make it day to day
No one cares for me
I keep no company
I have minimal needs
And now they are through with me
Now they are through with me
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The younger brother who committed the horrible crime at the Boston Marathon must have had these words rushing through his head when he was in the boat. Don't get me wrong, his crime was brutal and awful. But as I watched the news, this song went through my head.
deerhunter are so good.
Take my hand and pray with me
My final days in company. The devil now
has come for me, and helicopters
circling the scene.
And i pray for rest.
Could you pray for us?
We know he loves you the best.
We know he loves you the best.
The light's inside my cave.
I'm tired of my cave.
Oh these drugs they play on me these
terrible ways. They don't pay like they
used to pay. I used to make it day to day.
No one cares for me. I keep no
company. I have minimal needs. And
now they are through with me.
Now they are through with me.
He soon began starring in his lover's films as well as working as a nude model. Dima supplemented his income by working as an escort. Soon, a member of the Russian mafia had developed something of a fixation on Dima. One day, Dima left his lover and cut off communication with all his friends, and moved in with the Russian crime leader. Another escort, a friend of Dima, spotted Dima being "forcibly sodomized" by a group of 10-15 men (including the crime leader) in a private sex club. That was the last spotting of Dima.
The escort tried to investigate. He persuaded a prominent gay Russian journalist to write a story, but the journalist was threatened by the organized crime, and stopped.
One day, another crime leader, who was being tried on an unrelated murder charge, confessed that he had seen a young man matching Dima's description be pushed out of a helicopter over a remote forest in Northern Russia. Dima's ex-lover, before dying in 2007, confessed that he had sold Dima as a sex slave in 2005 and believed Dima to have committed suicide in 2006.
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incredibly haunting song when you read the backstory.
My question regarded how "Helicopter" came about, and he told me that he was reading a story about some specific and tragic event that some German had to endure. He told me that the story resonated with him so much that he actually felt what this person was going through, so he wrote this song and the lyrics as a representation of how it would have been if he had experienced it.
He didn't go into details about what that tragic event was though.
"Mojo - 4 out of 5
Fourth album from Atlanta pop-psych quartet.
The measure of Deerhunter's fuzzed-out beauty is how it trancends the the band's damaged subtext, centering upon volatile frontman (and Marfan syndrome suffer) Bradford Cox. Though lacking the immediate sonic kick of 2008's Microcastle, this prolific collective's latest album has greater intrigue, from opener Earthquake's phased beats and reverberant guitar pools onwards. The fizzing jaunt of Revival suggests Grateful Dead warped by Eno, a key touchstone throughout but especially the pellucid scales of Desire Lines, the album's glorious centrepiece, written by guitarist Lockett Pundt. Cox is a fan of the transgressive author Dennis Cooper, whose account of the shocking death of a teenage gay prostitute in Russia inspired Helicopter and its heartbreaking refrain "Now they are through with me". There's no shortage of US outfits seeking new conduits for the blown mind, but with Halcyon Digest Deerhunter are dealing in an altogether different kind of tension.
Keith Cameron."
My question regarded how "Helicopter" came about, and he told me that he was reading a story about some specific and tragic event that some German had to endure. He told me that the story resonated with him so much that he actually felt what this person was going through, so he wrote this song and the lyrics as a representation of how it would have been if he had experienced it.
He didn't go into details about what that tragic event was though.