Name: The Greenless Wreath
Duration: P00H07M06S
Description: Though inevitably seen as a death song, this was begun as a love song, a message sent through the greenless transparency of nature-in-winter—the common root of the present and absent, the living and the dead. The “bone-cage” is an Anglo-Saxon kenning for the body, found in Beowulf. Dedicated to the living Dawn the Faun McCarthy. —nf

The Greenless Wreath

from In Glorious Times by Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

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Though inevitably seen as a death song, this was begun as a love song, a message sent through the greenless transparency of nature-in-winter—the common root of the present and absent, the living and the dead. The “bone-cage” is an Anglo-Saxon kenning for the body, found in Beowulf. Dedicated to the living Dawn the Faun McCarthy. —nf

lyrics

At last in the trembling leaves
This bone-cage slips away
Lost in the shivering trees
Your absent voice is clay
Last breath of green
First breath of stone
Sweep this cage of bone
Hungry for your desperate dreams
I hold exhaustion close
The shining world is all that it seems
I fall in love with ghosts
Whispering to you
Through reconstructed teeth
A cage of bone in the greenless wreath
Last breath of green
First breath of stone

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from In Glorious Times, released May 29, 2007
song: Nils
music: SGM

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Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Oakland, California

Perhaps we can call them Avant-Prog Metal, or Grindcore Funk Theater, or in the words of one
particularly rapt concertgoer “Satanic Anarchic Viking Shit."

Regardless, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum indoctrinates their audiences with circuitous melodies, unnamable harmonies and gleefully dark, evocative sounds emanating from an array of voices and instruments, many of them homemade. ... more

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