'Wild World' - SHRIEKBACK

[TheGazelle]

They make the Manhunter Soundtrack brilliant

[Babyshriek]

Thanks for keeping your hand on your heart all these years, you have brought so much to my journey.

[gerrypocha]

OMG! Barry Andrews rises to the top of the artistic class..

[shriekback]

LYRICS: WILD WORLD
Well the days are slipping past now:
days of calibrated sorrow.
This is our little piece of history
(maybe we get some tomorrow?).
There's still the trouble with the off-switch
and still the struggle with the satyr
but there's nothing much to see here now;
not a lot that really matters.

And the Wild World listens as you sing
and the Wild World wants you for a sunbeam

..although the light is fading
there's still enough to read by
and the world will hold a candle for you
as the hallucinations speed by
and you'd better make your peace with
all the things you know are true now
and all the things you didn't do
..that you're never gonna do now

For the Wild World shines in the rain
and the Wild World slips through your fingers

You can try and sum it up
- to tell somebody how you found it
well the best of luck with that
You won't get your arms around it
because the falling of the sparrows
because the rising of the larks
because the little boats a' sailing (on the Wine Dark Sea)
because the drinkers in the parks...
and the making of the mountains
the stones you kept as souvenirs:
the fragments you have gathered up
through the distortion of the years

And the Wild World spins you into space
and the Wild World wishes you the best now

because it loves you very much
it made a place for you to live in
complicated to the touch:
and neither vengeful nor forgiving
embrace your torments now:
your many lacerations,
your lamentations,
your thirst for adoration ...
and at the bottom of it all
there may be nothing there at all

..and Oh! to this accomodation
and to this grand delusion -
I can be true
and everything is humming;
World, I cannot hold you close enough
this I leave with you
.... I leave with you

[Voidmonster]

Feels like a bookend to Evaporation. It's been wrecking me every time I listen to it since I got the album. Bravo!

[hopenesmith]

World, I cannot hold you close enough!

[ianbirch]

Fantastic conclusion to a brilliant album....probably my fave.

[MaxCampanella]

The way you modulate rise and fall of tempo and how that matches the rise and fall of scope, going from vast and sweeping down to the very personal, the way that you frame each verse with the "and the wild world..." parts is amazing. Like how "The Wild World shines in the rain" feels like it completes the fading light and missed opportunities and then the Slips Through your fingers introduces the next segment, where we start our next journey from conceptual and external to deeply personal and internal...
I am agog at the poetry in this song

[GardnerGoldsmith]

This is phenomenal, in so many regards! Well done! I love not only what the song expresses through lyric and sound, but how it seems to trigger images and new realms of thought in one's mind. This is like a musical, contemporary-dystopian, version of something Lord Dunsany might have composed, creating curtains of electronic-data-linked mist one can part to recall what awaits, behind the constructs and constraints. Thank you, gentlemen! Best to you, from near Boston, where "Hammerheads" still echoes after your visit. :)

[bubsy]

Fantastic video and music. Loving this!

[nevenko]

great as ever!!! Barry is absolutely brilliant!! And lyrics !

[mitchellbaker]

When you are in the age group that first discovered this band in the 80s, you'll get to know just how true are the words, "And you'd better make peace with all the things you know are true now, and all the things you didn't do that you're never gonna do now". That's an every day struggle for myself, that I then to come to terms, AKA "make peace" with, until tomorrow, when it starts again. Only 4k views for this. We are lucky to be in this cult of higher consciousness.

[Tony-xnsd]

Mr Andrews, I love you with every beat of my heart but I want another 'My spine', I wanna go back to 1983, I want to relive my youth :/ xxxx

[saxmidiman]

Barry, two questions...What is the bass on We All Lie Down(Jupiter, or Taurus), and which river has whales?😁😎

[john-r-edge]

This is a great Album. But any album taking its title from Andre Tarkovsky's book 'Sculpting in Time' would have to be good.

[gerrypocha]

Man that background sea looks a lot like the movie 'Solaris'