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No Helen

from Incarnadine by Silver Sircus

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NO HELEN

I.
The seed of love begat yearning
The yearning begat planting
Planting begat the long wait
The long wait begat fervour
Then cutting
Then building
And then comes the sailing
For beauty feeds that fervour
That must needs build the argo
And the horse
What Argonaut can steel himself
Against the heart’s longing for flesh?
No golden love without surrender
No war, no Helen

II.
My unrequited love
You sit and smoke your funny cigarettes
And I am lost in my loss of you
My most unsteady love
How come you came to feel
You weren’t as beautiful as I?
I laugh at your jokes about Helenic Wars
But I would build a Trojan horse of matchsticks for you
Too much, too much you say
But I will build it anyway
What less can I do?
Unconsummated love
I am consumed
Only seven hundred thousand more matches to go

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from Incarnadine, released December 18, 2016
Lucinda Shaw - vocals
James Lees - piano
Mark Angel - guitars
Wayne Jennings - cello

Music by Shaw/Lees/Angel/Jennings
Lyrics by Shaw

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Silver Sircus Brisbane, Australia

Silver SIrcus are led by vocalist/performer Lucinda Shaw and drummer/composer/producer James Lees. They are based in Brisbane, Australia and have been making music since 2008.

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