Saturday, August 14, 2010

Jesca Hoop: The Kingdom

This is quite the most gorgeous video I have seen in years.



In fact the video is so mesmerizing it's hard at first to hear how beautifully the poetry is constructed:

In the morning you are called, she said
you must go to the battlefield
and follow the cries of the men rampaging
and gather the ones who won't heal...

But In the high desert, you are dying
for your God, and his ghost, and the son.
Do not hold to the earth on which you are lying
for the Kingdom can never be won


I've been listening to this obsessively for two days. The album was $7.99, but the inspiration is priceless.

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