giovedì 1 agosto 2013

Cocteau Twins: "Seekers who are lovers"



Lyrics of "Seekers who are lovers"
Songwriters:  ELIZABETH FRASER/ ROBIN GUTHRIE  / SIMON RAYMONDE

Brush by gracefully
A love as big as a risk
Fills you up
And you can° look on
The breath of god in my mouth
A love you can taste
God get some paste
He and I, breath to breath
Clothed in saliva
Healing thru your arm
I cant stop hungering for otherness.
I forgot the use
My head fall out the sky
And crashed into my palms
Jesus God valentine
Love
On the tip of it
The old rivers lack of other sweet scents
So sweet
You are a woman just as you are a man
Creeping on the Gas
Is a magic love, like,
Like a Flights, clouded peak
I was choking on the blood
Whose camouflages, lack of soul
Whose misty fire, muses soul
Kneeling by the harm
Which is promising the way
His poor essence, under the truth
love and heart polish itself
I slid my heels but slowly ran
So send Lucifer into hell".

see also this interesting blog:
http://secretsun.blogspot.it/2008/01/siren-part-2-sea-swallow-me.html

Joan as Police Woman alias Joan Wasser

Jeff Buckley & Elizabeth Fraser - All flowers in time









From an article about Elisabeth Frazer, the singer of the group Cocteau Twins:

.....After parting from Guthrie, but still in the same band, Fraser struck up an intense relationship with Jeff Buckley after they became infatuated with each other's voices. Again, emotion produced music. A sublime duet they recorded called All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun is floating around the internet, to her irritation.
"Why do people have to hear everything?" she complains. I tell her it's wonderful. "But it's unfinished, you see. I don't want it to be heard." There's a pause. "Maybe I won't always think that."
Buckley died in 1997, by which time they had lost touch – Fraser had grown frustrated with his constant touring, a reaction that weighs heavily on her. "I just wish I'd been more of a friend," she says, softly. "His career was everything to him, and I wish I had been more understanding – happy with a different kind of relationship. I missed out on something there, and it was my fault."
The news that Buckley had disappeared – he drowned, swimming in the Wolf river in Memphis – came while Fraser was recording Teardrop with Massive Attack. "That was so weird," she says. "I'd got letters out and I was thinking about him. That song's kind of about him – that's how it feels to me anyway." It seems she is haunted by guilt: for not being there for Buckley, for everything. As she puts it: "I need to forgive myself."
 http://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/nov/26/cocteau-twins-elizabeth-fraser-interview

Rebecca Moore