Fairy Paradise

I bought the CD today and I checked out the lyrics. This is what they are:

He draws near the periphery in disbelief on delivery came child from the deep inferno crusty head of dead volcano heartless crow with brittle beak wooden leg too shocked to speak lilac dust of a woman's hair a wooden cross a paper prayer a stone where her body lay a stack of feathers a pile of hay a mushroom for an eyeball a mustache from the snowfall worms weave a ring where fairies square dance queens and kings, fairies weave wigs with eyelash trance music makes the fairies dance from the caves of snail shells echoes the mutter medieval spells mystery flows her wicked river of thorn and blade and silver sliver bending round the clover fields their sapling stems don't break but yield her pain inflicts no arguments must learn to sway and un arrange as earth she makes her final passage after humans long have ravaged vanished with all maps for motion upward angels last devotion one by one escort us home to leave the elementals free to roam to bathe in the last of ocean's foam to beach comb the nuclear debris our plastic toys and our metal trees on the perfect day you'll find the breeze once blew the pollen the feet of bees now cry the stars when upon the earth their gaze might rest a nostalgic burst a lament be heard through all the cosmos of the dying planet with fallen foes

Lyric correction:

As earth she makes her final passage After humans long have ravaged

Pretty certain that's right.

this is such a beautiful song. the whole album is amazingggg. i think it's about like the end of the world/the end of humanity, that's what i get from it anyway.

check out this live version it's perfect <3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZnGr6xCX9I&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQc1NpMgQ5k&feature=related

im excited to see the recorded version of the song :D

Heartless coward, bird of beak When life's too short to speak

Sounds like:

Heartless cold, brittle beak. When life's too shocked to speak

That's what I'm hearing.

Lilac dust of womens hair

I love Cocorosie so much, i saw these wonderful ladies a few years back, and can't wait to see them next month in Portland Oregon. My dreams are always filled with their words.

This is what I hear:

He draws near the periphery In disbelief and delivery Came child from the deep inferno Crusty head of dead volcano Heartless coward, brittle beak When life's too short to speak Lilac dust of a woman's hair Wind cross the paper prayer A strong will her body lay A stack of feathers, a pile of hay A mushroom for an eyeball A mustache from the snowfall Worms weave a ring where fairies square dance Queens and kings fairies weave works with eyelash Trance music make the fairies dance From the cage of snail shells Of course their mother made evil spells Mystery flows through a wicked river Of thorn and blade and silver sliver Bending around the clover fields Their sapling stems don't break but heal Her pain inflicts no arguments must Learn to sway and unarrange As earth, she makes her final passage After humans long have ravaged

Vanished with all maps for motion Upward angels last devotion One by one escort us home To leave the elementals free to roam To bathe in the last of oceans foam To beach comb The nuclear debris of plastic toys And a meadow trees on the perfect day You'll find the breeze once Blew the pollen to feed the bees Now cried the stars when upon the earth Their gaze might rush, their nostalgia burst Elements be heard through all the cosmos For the dying planet with fallen foes

I'm sure that this isn't 100% accurate. As with most CocoRosie songs, the lyrics are both abstract and hard to decipher.

does anyone know the lyrics that Sierra is singing ?

I'm pretty sure Sierra sings either "don't hurt me" or "don't hate me", probably the former.

I'm really not sure how it took me this long to figure out what the last verse meant, but here's what I've got thus far....

Vanished with all maps for motion Upward angels last devotion One by one escort us home

(The first three lines of the last verse were put there to symbolize the human race in its entirety being killed off).

To leave the elementals free to roam To bathe in the last of ocean's foam (After a nuclear explosive has done its damage, it continues to do more damage as it creates an uninhabitable area due to radiation and such (hint: elementals free to roam). Although I may be extremely off on the second line, I feel as if it may be describing a tidal wave that was brought on by the nuclear blast?)

To beach comb the nuclear debris Our plastic toys and our metal trees

(These two lines give off a strong sense of symbolism. Plastic toys and metal trees were once used back during the age of Nuclear testing in the test sites themselves to make the housing locations look more "realistic." Beach combing the nuclear debris is pretty straight forward).

On the perfect day you'll find the breeze Once blew the pollen the feet of bees

(I feel like they may have been describing the way it feels to die with the first line. Right before we pass on, our bodies release a chemical called DMT which actually gives off a calming sensation (this is where the "white light" that people describe when dying comes from)).

Now cry the stars when upon the earth Their gaze might rest a nostalgic burst A lament be heard through all the cosmos Of the dying planet with fallen foes

(The last four lines are also pretty self-explanatory as they describe the sorrow and mourn felt from the rest of the Universe to see that Earth has fallen (lament being heard through all the cosmos)).

It's VERY possible that I'm as far from the actual meaning as can be, but for some reason I really feel like Ailuridae hit the nail on the head with his/her thoughts on the song being about the end of humanity.