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jack_babalonI've had Death In June's Brown Book on the headphones all day. It goes perfect with the cold air & the flame colored leaves plucked off the trees outside. Autumns a good time for Occult-Folk music I guess and this is as good as that genre gets. I've had this album for years actually. Right before I went to the Gulf War my friend Skinhead Dave burnt me a copy along with some other good stuff. I was in my Baudelaire period I guess, prone to reading Rilke in my rack & daydreaming about the vampire women in the B&W photospreads of Propaganda magazine. I would wonder around these fields in Sicily that were right next to NAS 1, where I was stationed until I could get a flight to my ship. There the brambles and bushes would glow gold with an October Mediterranean sun and I would make my way to an abandoned house that sat there with all the lonliness of an Edward Hopper painting. I would sit there on the front porch listening to the wind blow through my headphones while Douglas P & his gang of evil Tiny Tim's provided the soundtrack. It was one of those moments where solitude is a blessing rather than a curse. Today I was listening and relistening to one of my favorite tracks on Brown Book, a track called "Red dog/Black Dog" which seems to be a story being narrated but as soon as the story gets a few lines in the story starts over again and continues at the same time creating an audio effect which, for me at least, renders the lyrics uninteligible. The song finally synchs back up at the end for one line:His sister speaks "You must be careful! There is a Red Dog. And, there is a Black Dog." Meanwhile theres this whole delightfully creepy chorus singing in the background. At the time Skinhead Dave postulated that the song was about the "Moon Card" thinking that that was what the two dogs must have been referencing. Though Skinhead Dave was quite the 'master of the temple' and one of the few men I've met to have actually read Joyce's Uylsses not just quoted it from second hand R.A.W. I still had my doubts, which is natural because no matter how often I listened to the track I just couldn't make out the jist of the story/song. Today I googled the lyrics on a lark and found a pretty good DIJ reference page. So if anyone else had the same problem or are just curious what it is i've been rambling about for the last few paragraphs here it is:
A young man. He has returned to his place of birth and stands staring at the house wrapped in the dark of night. A voice shouts his name! His mother has seen him loitering in the darkness.
She stares down from an upstairs window. Quickly, the figure of a woman leaves the home. She
possesses no features. It is understood that she is a friend of his mother.
The woman walks up the street towards the bus stop and he and his mother decide to accompany her.
The man asks her what time it is and she reveals her watch-showing it is midnight. He notices that the sky at the top of the road is already showing the grey of dawn. It is already getting light.
The man and his mother return to the house where he finds his younger sister waiting. The women have been devining-foretelling the future. He sees that for their devination they have used a square wooden block, marked out with nails or pegs. He cannot quite see but he thinks they are three down and three across. A piece of red cotton is tied between the nails. The position determines the outcome.
He asks the women if they could also do it for him. They are very hesitant.
But, give in to just one question-one that isn't asked! This is done and vehemently they will continue no further.
He stares at the board and the string runs diagonally from left to right. He looks again-the red string runs diagonally from right to left.
His sister speaks; “You must be careful! There is a Red Dog. And, there is a Black Dog.”
~Death In June
Red Dog-Black Dog
Brown Book
A young man. He has returned to his place of birth and stands staring at the house wrapped in the dark of night. A voice shouts his name! His mother has seen him loitering in the darkness.
She stares down from an upstairs window. Quickly, the figure of a woman leaves the home. She
possesses no features. It is understood that she is a friend of his mother.
The woman walks up the street towards the bus stop and he and his mother decide to accompany her.
The man asks her what time it is and she reveals her watch-showing it is midnight. He notices that the sky at the top of the road is already showing the grey of dawn. It is already getting light.
The man and his mother return to the house where he finds his younger sister waiting. The women have been devining-foretelling the future. He sees that for their devination they have used a square wooden block, marked out with nails or pegs. He cannot quite see but he thinks they are three down and three across. A piece of red cotton is tied between the nails. The position determines the outcome.
He asks the women if they could also do it for him. They are very hesitant.
But, give in to just one question-one that isn't asked! This is done and vehemently they will continue no further.
He stares at the board and the string runs diagonally from left to right. He looks again-the red string runs diagonally from right to left.
His sister speaks; “You must be careful! There is a Red Dog. And, there is a Black Dog.”
~Death In June
Red Dog-Black Dog
Brown Book
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on 2005-11-17 10:20 pm (UTC)The lyric site i've been using though is
www.lyricsbox.com/death-in-june-wp47r.html worth checking out.
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