for Gift 2: Coffin and Gramophone — National Library of Scotland
Exit Music for a Dead Musician
Ego must die, when the duende comes,
Up from the past through mouths and hearts long dead
Music arises, swelling tide of blood
A cri de cœur of passion, rich and red
Let aeroplanes fly off, let boats arrive
Wherever men can travel, music goes
Let aeroplanes fly off, let boats arrive
Wherever men can travel, music goes
No narrow coffin ever held a song
A coronach’s more powerful than a rose
When the embroidered linen is set out
The shining knife lies by the marriage cake
Then, when the piper leads the couple in
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