Cemetery of Splendour

Cemetery of Splendour - Jenny Hval

Lyrics by：Jenny Hval

Composed by：Jenny Hval

When you call when you call my name

Breath fills a shut-down space

Mouths were opened here once

There was a band on

Hear the buzzing of the empty halls

Or all rooms that are empty at any point in time sigh

Ah

Once you played in empty bars

Performing for the beer tap and the pool tables

Nobody giving you their card

Because you have potential

Almost nothing interrupting ideas

Jittering in the jiggers

They sound like the way to another

Now you go to the afterlife

You've heard good things about it

But the embers are cooling

And the spirits are just names plus one

And you see tagged-over posters with faces out of frame

Boarded up windows that watch you walk away

All things abandoned are following your steps

Associating from space to emptiness

Trees sticks rocks

Tagged-over posters with faces out of frame

Bamboo leaf bamboo leaf again and the branch the branch the pine cones

Boarded up windows that watch you walk away

And the birds in the distance gum gum gum cigarette butts

All things abandoned are following your steps

Candy wrapper a button a slug shoes came here and here and here

Associating from space to emptiness

Someone once lay down here but the trees the trees

And the pine cones

And the sticks and the rocks and the bamboo leaf

The bamboo leaf again

And then the branch the branch the branch the branch

When you are sleeping time glows

Pine cones and the birds in the distance

Gum gum gum

Cigarette butts

Candy wrapper

A button a slug

Shoes came here and here and here

Someone once lay down here

But the trees

And the pine cones