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Owen Pallett → Heartland → “Keep the Dog Quiet”

Lyrics

My body is a cage.
This union is a cage about a cage about a cage.
And this, and this town too.
I’ll see you once in a while but I can’t be seen with you.
This place is a narrative mess.
The floor a tangle of bedsheets and battered sundress.
The ink has dried in the well.
The journey once was consequential,
Now: sequential, sequential, sequential, sequential.

When will you silence your hounds?
The eldest sons to the altar of the Eternal Sound.
Their blood is spilled at the dawn.
A nation bound to your will, still, the violin plays on.
Plays its devotional song.
Once it was, once it was so essential,
Now: sequential, sequential, sequential, sequential.

Early lyrics [source]

My body is enraged.
Our union is cage about a cage about a cage.

Our bodies met in good faith
Our meetings started as consequential,
Then sequential, sequential.

This place, this place is a mess.
The floor a tangle of old jeans and tattered sundress.
The smell, the smell in here too.
I’ll see you once in a while but I can’t be seen with you.

Men are bad and men are a burden.
But have you seen the way we look when we are stackable?

Personnel

Owen Pallett
electric bass
Eventide loops
prepared piano
violin
viola
Jeremy Gara
percussion
The St. Kitts’ Winds
The Czech Symphony Strings

Performances