Real Death
from A Crow Looked At Me by Mount Eerie
lyrics
REAL DEATH
Death is real.
Someone’s there and then they’re not
and it’s not for singing about.
It’s not for making into art.
When real death enters the house
all poetry is dumb.
When I walk in
to the room where you were
and look into
the emptiness instead
all fails.
My knees fail.
My brain fails.
Words fail.
Crusted with tears, catatonic and raw, I go downstairs and outside and you still get mail.
A week after you died a package with your name on it came and inside was a gift for our daughter you had ordered in secret and collapsed there on the front steps I wailed.
A backpack for when she goes to school a couple years from now. You were thinking ahead to a future you must have known deep down would not include you though you clawed at the cliff you were sliding down, being swallowed into a silence that is bottomless and real.
It’s dumb
and I don’t want to learn anything from this.
I love you.
Death is real.
Someone’s there and then they’re not
and it’s not for singing about.
It’s not for making into art.
When real death enters the house
all poetry is dumb.
When I walk in
to the room where you were
and look into
the emptiness instead
all fails.
My knees fail.
My brain fails.
Words fail.
Crusted with tears, catatonic and raw, I go downstairs and outside and you still get mail.
A week after you died a package with your name on it came and inside was a gift for our daughter you had ordered in secret and collapsed there on the front steps I wailed.
A backpack for when she goes to school a couple years from now. You were thinking ahead to a future you must have known deep down would not include you though you clawed at the cliff you were sliding down, being swallowed into a silence that is bottomless and real.
It’s dumb
and I don’t want to learn anything from this.
I love you.
credits
from A Crow Looked At Me,
released March 24, 2017
license
all rights reserved
tags
about
Mount Eerie Anacortes, Washington
on Lummi, Samish, Klallam, Tulalip and W̱SÁNEĆ land
discography
-
Nov 2024 -
Nov 2024 -
May 2024 -
Jan 2022
contact / help
Mount Eerie recommends:
-
Petserimaa igatsus / Longing for Pechory
by Mari Kalkunvery good, I have the tape
go to album -
incantations in the sun that go on forever, erasing the tie to whatever you were stuck on before
go to album -
Papa's Ear (2022 Remaster)
by TenniscoatsHikoki forever
go to album
If you like Mount Eerie, you may also like:
-
Everywhere at the end of time
by The Caretakersupported by 500 fans who also own “Real Death”
A singular, harrowing experience. If this album doesn't give you a newfound appreciation of life, specifically the ability to remember it, then I don't know what will.
go to album -
supported by 404 fans who also own “Real Death”
Beautiful, witty, haunting, and catchy as hell.
go to album -
The Japanese artist has the grim state of the globe on her mind on her devestating new album, her first in seven years.
go to album
