Whispering Sons - Hollow (official video)

HOLLOW
Taken from Whispering Sons’ debut album ‘Image’.
Out on PIAS, Smile Records and Cleopatra Records.

Director: Pieter De Ridder
Editor: Koen Blauwblomme
Executive Producer: Matthias Schellens
Producer: Michiel Knops
1st AD: Robin De Roeck
Director of Photography: Maximiliaan Dierickx
1st Camera Assistant: Alexandre Beyne
2nd Camera Assistant: Charlie Speeckaert
Steadicam: Sven Joukes
Costume: Jutta Smeyers
Make Up Artist: Charlotte Blommaert
Art Director: Laura Eyckmans
Casting: via Pluche (starring Evelyne, Vincent, Fille, Michel, JM O, Aurore, Virginie, Tommy)

Music and words by Whispering Sons
Produced by Micha Volders
Engineered & Co-produced by Bert Vliegen
Mixed by Bert Libeert (Safari Studios) at Jetson Studio
Mastered by Jerboa Mastering

FOLLOW WHISPERING SONS

[stevemertens]

Top Belgian new wave band! Love them from day 1! Proud to be a Belgian ❤️

[dirkvisser]

Life indeed is very long when you're stuck in existence

[eldritch]

It gives me always goosebumps...what a song...what a band...a tribute for Belgium....❤❤❤

[jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

This is my neighbour's new favourite song whether he likes it or not.

[jancor]

the new pride of Belgium, looking forward to the future and new projects 😀 welkom back new wave 💪

[lowblood]

I say that not very often, but I am glad as heck I found this Band. I'm looking forward for new Projects.

[TheVitorluis]

I love this band!! Please, COME TO BRAZIL!!

[oaeeae]

Probably the song that changed my life

[ronnydewaelheyns]

Zalige band en brengt ons weer naar de zwarte 80s 🤘😎🖤

[LEEDIEDZJEE]

Hauntingly beautiful! Love this band❤️❤️❤️

[Abrahamhamham]

I saw them 2 days ago. One of the best concerts i've ever been to.

[zakelijke-portretten]

Ik hoop dat deze op de setlist staat vanavond!! Echt geweldig!!

[ianthomas]

A fantastic band that will achieve cult status. Great for getting worked up and full of energy when on an exercise machine.

[JFVerissimo]

"and life is very long when you're stuck in existence"- A True . Amazing words!

[tracycope]

Just put this on by accident and it simply gets better !

[confectioninfection]

so much love for you guys. i’m always spreading the word about ya! 🖤🖤🖤

[egnarorange]

T.S. Eliot
The Hollow Men
Mistah Kurtz-he dead
A penny for the Old Guy




I


We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us-if at all-not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.



II


Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death's dream kingdom
These do not appear:
There, the eyes are
Sunlight on a broken column
There, is a tree swinging
And voices are
In the wind's singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star.

Let me be no nearer
In death's dream kingdom
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field
Behaving as the wind behaves
No nearer-

Not that final meeting
In the twilight kingdom



III


This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man's hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star.

Is it like this
In death's other kingdom
Waking alone
At the hour when we are
Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.



IV


The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms

In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river

Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death's twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.



V


Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning.

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom

Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long

Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom

For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

[anthonymonteil]

Awesome music! Can't wait to see you in November in Nîmes ;)