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The New Spring

by The New Spring

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1.
Little Poem 02:41
Through the field of poppies I will run In a cloud of dust I will cry And fall asleep where carnations Yield to unfold in heaps of purple On the place where she carved the words Into her own skin “Great Sterile Transparent Jellies Die Forever” Below the night is a soft monument A stuttering chump beneath a porch light She won’t sit at the table She wants to be taken to the dance To the dance And not by anyone But him For whom she cares Whom she loves And I will cry in a cloud of dust I will run through fields of poppies
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The house is like a coffin Now that everyone’s asleep On the porch you’re overlooking The garden and the trees And I don’t mind the saying That “you are my light” Oh, will you burn through this night? Walk now without your coat on Let the insects have their way Lie down among the flowers Let the dew kiss your face Think of Jesper and what he said Let it grow inside your head Then think of the little ones in their beds And the wind, when it blows, at the top of Mt. Everest The vessels surrounding your heart that will never rest Until it stops It’s only partially decided The role that you will play The path that you have taken The road that you have laid Is paved with good intentions Is crystallized and true And now it seems hopeless to you But the wind when it blows is not only for Everest Sooner than never It’s always for everest I don’t mind the saying That “you are my garden” And the lake is just a mirror It’s as clear now as it was then You wanted her at the spring fair You wanted her in the grass You wanted her on that first day You wanted her since the first day
3.
By Your Side 03:15
You duck and you swallow the rest Little crow, I know the schoolyard’s a mess Bumblebees and skeletons all fighting for a place By your side In bed all brimming with fright On the porch with just one little light For the gentle things that died when all the fences came apart By your side In class I am thinking of you What was love and beauty to you? When all I recall of it Were glass fibers, tiny broken millions And who would proudly try to hold his breath beneath the surface of the water? And let the bubbles float upstream to reach the river’s mouth By your side Let me see the colts that will run next year
4.
Once I fell asleep in the night I woke up singing in the morning And the room was split by threads of light The curtains were drawn and her door was open June the 3rd was a waste of time June the 17th was a waste of life Waiting for a look in his eyes For lips to part and apologize When the snow fell the streets and the yards were lit up When your heart was slumbering, when your heart was slumbering And the sky torn apart in the morning was like Blazing fires burning on far coasts The cathedral threw itself unto the street When your heart was slumbering, when your heart was slumbering In your dream you saw it melt and then splinter away Grace is fire and the garden is tundra In the parking lot they throw themselves down in the dirt Hands are tied by golden strings, they come with precious offerings Despite the terrors they fell in love And only fire could ever be good enough
5.
There’s nothing new about my face It’s not young and it’s not old The shores are rocky and a path Is parting where the hills descend From the woods into the plains You walk in search of a clear place to rest To sleep with your hands on your chest There’s nothing new about my lips They’re like the tips of my fingers In the water I felt yours Clenching where the rivers end Where the ocean hits the shore From the water we will rise up And then gracefully walking in mud There’s nothing new about my hands The palms are sunny meadows And you told them to be still But they won’t be still They have crawled beneath the icy ground Where the hard bones of the old world are spread out In fine layers of dust
6.
The Glow 03:38
My heart lies in your hand Uneasy now from weeks in the sand The coast when driving away Was beautiful and blue on that day A sound in the night, I’m awake An itch on my neck You’re on the front seat Glowing Your hands, your lips and your eyes All answer to a bold and strange force But to me the light from last night Was born from nothing, came from no source Alone in the car when it hits So full of fear I’m on the front seat Glowing I bite my nails I wait and wait From the parlors and the pavilions We will run, we will run I hope for the sky to clear someday To look to my side And you’re on the front seat Glowing
7.
Ceremony 03:34
They have felt it all with you They have willfully shed Hundreds of tears Walked you to your door And said it once more: “Pulverize the body, Part it into atoms But don’t tell them that it’s all been done before” So awful, it was a fever that raged I felt warm by your side But so cold when we died We heard the choir sing And we remembered everything: The morning when the war came, Fences all torn up And parading around in our lavender coifs In the garden everything appears To grow by itself To have a life of its own There are creatures in the light All freezing at the sight Of little gods and rabbits Heading out into the garden How they have grown and aged so terribly The ascend, the parting of the air We had to carry the little ones, so frightened and bare And then I felt it This weird and silly joy In the rejection which replays itself endlessly now In a marble interior that echoes with our every word I tried to tell you that love is like a bird I tried to tell you, but it never came out Right
8.
Little Poet 05:08
You always appear in the same way By a lakeside, weary, alone Under the stars and a full moon With a cancer residing in your bones And have you completed your essay On the ramifications of the heart? On how they are irregular and formless You have an unsettled notion Of a poetry that is motion I saw you walk proudly to the scaffold With your chin up and a hand on your heart You had to come clean, to let it all out When you spoke to her briefly in the yard You said: “Have you forgiven your parents? Have you brought peace to their home? I want our love to be neither fierce nor vengeful Merely upheld by emotion And pure, untouched devotion” Did you ever picture it: The body when it breaks And in the front hall we watch it transform Who out here could ever tell that it was Once a quivering ocean? That’s all And millions will wait He’s dry And sick from the wait
9.
Barricades 03:35
Wait for the fireworks In a single flash A thousand angry dogs unleashed On the boulevard, in the little square, on the street I feel ashamed We all saw it When the fat cop threw his final punch But you didn’t mind Tasting blood ‘cause it’s the very blood that runs in you Wait for a signal flare, The clasping of hands, The sound when it all gives in And love Tumbling down I thought about the time when you reflected on the architecture when it grew so exhausted and old a withered monument collapsing due to pressure from within and I remembered your body and wondered “how to apply such measurements to some sort of solid structure?” and I thought about us laughing at breakfast when you said “oh, to pour myself unto whatever you’re having: the oatmeals of sadness, o longfaced one?” and I thought about you when you were grasping for air at the airport when everyone was clapping and you said “do you think all the shit is split equally? do you think it will pour down upon you and me? do you think I’d be talked to by security if I would cry or just start screaming? I’m going to sleep forever tomorrow” Tonight On a boulevard, in a little square A thousand people fell asleep Walk home through the gardens Pray for summertime Pray for a little rain And barricades
10.
Maybe Love 04:12
As to what the hands are for I have so many questions All slippery So would you walk with me? Out into the garden, on the faded green carpet Lie beneath the branches and talk, talk about Maybe love I tried to write a song for all likeable bullies I tried to write it out to all forgivable monsters Wandering aimlessly off into the sunset Crushing all opposition In the name of Maybe love As to end it now, as to sort of wrap it up I always hoped for the talking to fade out, to stop I always hoped for my next one to get what that one deserves I always hoped for something to part from my bones To be sent out without ever returning Maybe love As to what my hands are for I have so many questions All slippery So would you walk with me? Out into the garden, on the faded green carpet Lie beneath the branches and talk, talk about Maybe love

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"The New Spring" is the debut album from The New Spring.

"The New Spring" is a poetic and musical study of love and of having the courage to love – for better or worse. Just like the guitar on the album emphasizes the atmosphere, the lyrics set the scene for the music; lyric and music walk hand in hand on the album. Each song outlines a lyrical scenery, a personal mapping of the labyrinth of love.

The album is written in 3-4 months and even though the sound of the record is minimalistic, the creation process was packed with people. During recordings the studio and the apartment were populated with friends sleeping over, baking bread or singing along on the record. Isolation is not a condition for creation; productivity arises in the encounter with the other human being, just like love arises this way.

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released March 28, 2011

Music and lyrics by Bastian Kallesøe. Recorded and mixed by Aske Zidore. Jesper Lidang and Søren Lilholt from The Rumour Said Fire on backing vocals.

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The New Spring is the moniker of Copenhagen-based singer-songwriter Bastian Kallesøe.

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