'you swan, go on' by Mount Eerie + Julie Doiron +Fred Squire {mp3} [BUY]

I've been kinda obsessed with this song for awhile, and today I keep going back to it more than ever. So short, yet so perfect... This comes off the 'Lost Wisdom' album collaboration between Phil Elverum , the man behind 'Mount Eerie/Microphones' , and Julie Doiron (ex- eric's trip) Buy this album. It maybe my favorite release of the year.

As good as I could possibly imagine my life getting, it did
After I met you
The way you reached inside my chest and pulled out things and sent them off in breaths blew
And as good as it got with all the layers peeling off, and though I writhed
I could not upset you
With your hand down my throat you held on to my heart and pumped blood through

And then “it’s time to go” you said, “it’s time to go out
You little gray goose
Get out from under my wing” you said “go on you swan you turn loose”

Oh so “it’s over”
Oh so “we died
Oh so “your hand on my heart pumping blood went limp” and oh, I fly
Oh swan inside.

Posted by nicholas at 2:19 PM