We keep on burying our dead
We keep on planting their bones in the ground
But they won't grow
The sun doesn't help
The rain doesn't help

If my garden would have a fence
Then the rabbits couldn't just come in
And sit on the grass
And eat all the flowers
And shit

Hi, I'm Icarus, I'm falling
Down, man for judgment must prepare me
Spare, oh god, in mercy spare me

Man, I have a terrible feeling
That something's gone awful, very wrong with the world
Is it something we made?
Is it something we ate?
Is it something we drank?

Hi, I'm Icarus, I'm falling
From the dust of earth returning
Man for judgment must prepare me
Spare, oh god, in mercy spare me

Lacrimosa

We keep on burying our dead
We keep on planting their bones in the ground
But they won't grow
The sun doesn't help
And all we've got
Is a giant crop
Of names and dates

Hi, I'm Icarus, I'm falling
Down on this day of tears and mourning
From the dust of earth returning
Man for judgment must prepare me
Spare, oh god, in mercy spare me

Lacrimosa


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    i think the lines "we keep on burying our dead. we keep on planting their bones in the ground, but they won't grow..." is a reference to t.s. eliot's poem "The Wasteland." this would be very fitting since 1) regina is a very literary songwriter (you've heard her song about Ezra Pound i am sure and if she has read Pound, i am 100% certain she has read Eliot) and 2) The Wasteland has similar themes to this song--futility, fall of humanity and the question of whether culture can redeem it, etc.

    eliot (in section 1: The Burial of the Dead) writes:

    "That corpse you planted last year in your garden, Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year? Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed? O keep the Dog far hence, that's friend to men, Or with his nails he'll dig it up again!"

    great poem, great song. check it out here: bartleby.com/201/1.html

    arielmelissaon October 16, 2009   Link

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