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The Wind

Record Details

Release
1999
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Record Tracklist

  1. The Wind
    The Wind

    Catherine liked high places –
    high up on the hills –
    a place for making noises,
    noises like the whales.
    Here she built a chapel
    with her image on the wall –
    and a place where she could rest
    and a place where she could wash –
    and listen to the wind blow.

    She dreamt of children’s voices
    and torture on the wheel.
    She was patron-saint of nothing
    just a woman of the hills,
    but she once was a lady
    of pleasure, and high-born –
    a lady of the city –
    but now she sits and moans –
    and listens to the wind blow.

    I see her in her chapel
    high up on the hill.
    She must be so lonely –
    O mother, can’t we give
    a husband to our Catherine?
    A handsome one, a dear?
    A rich one for the lady –
    someone to listen with?

  2. Nina Is Ecstasy
  3. The Faster I Breathe The Further I go