Taro

Space closes, space opens broad.
Breathe out, breathe in.
An "old" new friend came into my life this summer.
And yesterday she brought this gorgeous present.
Enjoy it!

Alt-J (∆) - Taro from David Dean Burkhart on Vimeo.

Published on May 31, 2012

From the album "An Awesome Wave." (Alt-J)
Footage is from the beautiful 1988 film "Powaqqatsi: Life in Transformation."

Lyrics

James Reed 3 weeks ago

This song is about the Death of Gerda Taro and her Husband Robert Capa. They were war photographers. Taro died in 1937 after a car she was in collided with a tank. Capa lived another 17 years and died while photographing the Indochina war in 1954 after stepping on a landmine.

Indochina, Capa jumps Jeep, two feet creep up the road
To photo, to record meat lumps and war,
They advance as does his chance -- very yellow white flash.
A violent wrench grips mass, rips light, tears limbs like rags,
Burst so high finally Capa lands,
Mine is a watery pit. Painless with immense distance
From medic from colleague, friend, enemy,
foe, him five yards from his leg, From you Taro.
Do not spray into eyes -- I have sprayed you into my eyes.
3:10 pm, Capa pends death, quivers, last rattles, last chokes
All colours and cares glaze to grey, shrivelled and stricken to dots,
Left hand grasps what the body grasps not -- le photographe est mort.
3.1415, alive no longer my amour, faded for home May of '54
Doors open like arms my love, Painless with a great closeness
To Capa, to Capa Capa dark after nothing,
re-united with his leg and with you, Taro.
Do not spray into eyes -- I have sprayed you into my eyes.
Hey Taro!

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