Long goes the night
Longer the day
Teclo your death
Will send me to my grave
I learned to beg
I learned to pray
Send me his love
Send it to me again
Let me ride
Let me ride
Let me ride on his grace for awhile
Let me ride
Let me ride
Just let me ride on his grace for awhile
Mmm-hmm
Mmm-hmm
Long goes the night
Longer the day
Teclo your death
Will send me to my grave
Let me ride
Let me ride
Just let me ride on his grace for awhile
Let me ride
Let me ride
Just let me ride on your grace for awhile
Just let me ride
Longer the day
Teclo your death
Will send me to my grave
I learned to pray
Send me his love
Send it to me again
Let me ride
Let me ride on his grace for awhile
Let me ride
Let me ride
Just let me ride on his grace for awhile
Mmm-hmm
Mmm-hmm
Longer the day
Teclo your death
Will send me to my grave
Let me ride
Just let me ride on his grace for awhile
Let me ride
Let me ride
Just let me ride on your grace for awhile
Just let me ride
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Teclo (José María Teclo Morelos y Pavón) was the name of a Mexican revolutionary bandit of the late 18th century . No connection to the song I know of, other the the exoticness of the name & maybe his quasi-mystical status.
No one has Commented? This is an amazing song. Gentle and brutal. Lulling and fragile. Please give it a listen.
This song speaks to me of a loss of faith, or feeling as though your "higher power" or god has deserted you. The "narrator" seems to be experiencing some difficulty in their life, and wishes to have the support of some deity-like figure to carry her through.
The King died, and the Queen died of grief.
There is one western movie "Guns for San Sebastian" with of course marvellous music from Ennio Morricone where there is a character named Teclo who dies (hence a composition: "Teclo's Death"), big time in Hollywood style. Knife in back and all that. Not a very American native sensitive movie by any means. Sense came long after that. Or did it?
Great song! But what does the title 'Teclo' means?
@motownjunk I found this on another site, discussing the meaning of this song. It's from an interview with Harvey, and explains a lot about this song's meaning (and the way this whole album came about). This is one of my favourite songs of hers.
@motownjunk I found this on another site, discussing the meaning of this song. It's from an interview with Harvey, and explains a lot about this song's meaning (and the way this whole album came about). This is one of my favourite songs of hers.
“I’d say for this record, for To Bring You My Love. The way I went about writing the songs and the way I went about recording the songs was all based on atmosphere and feeling more than anything. More than anything I’ve ever done before, any songs I’ve ever written before. The starting for quite a...
“I’d say for this record, for To Bring You My Love. The way I went about writing the songs and the way I went about recording the songs was all based on atmosphere and feeling more than anything. More than anything I’ve ever done before, any songs I’ve ever written before. The starting for quite a lot of the songs would be knowing a feeling that I wanted to try and create through music. And that came before anything like the way the song would be structured or the lyrical content it was much more the music and the feeling I would get off from that, and then work from there. And so recording this record was the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life I think let alone the hardest record I’ve ever made. Because it was so much having to delve into getting into the right frame of mind to create that atmosphere that was specific to each song – varied with each song. And it’s just a very difficult thing to do. Very emotionally draining as well.”
“Teclo is somebody’s name. I don’t know who’s. I can tell you the source material for that was from the theme music for the “Guns for San Sebastian”. I’ve got a record at home, Ennio Morricone. And there’s a song on there, “Teclo’s Death”, and I thought ‘Oh, that sounds interesting’ and it’s just percussions, nothing else. There’s no instrument. And I just found it very sort of intriguing as a title. And after I listened to that album it kind of sparked of so many ideas around that song for me – that that’s what kind of went on to writing music for “Teclo”.
I think it could be about sex. I love this song...
i think she is asking teclo to attack her so she can be saved by someone who she will marry and die with