Tender

by Clara Engel

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    FULL TRACKLISTING:

    1. O My Love is a Hurricane 3:53
    2. Appetite For Pain 3:58
    3. White Elephant 5:52
    4. How Many Horses 4:32
    5. O Sailor 4:14
    6. Margarita's Got Limousines 3:02
    7. Illuminate Me 5:01
    8. The Opium Song 4:45
    9. Forsake You 4:06
    10. Narcissus Mad For Power 4:36
    11. Hard To Get To Heaven 4:57
    12. Why For An Hour 5:51
    13. I Wear Your Coat 6:13
    14. Do You Know How It Is? 6:11     ... more

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released 14 March 2008
All Songs Written and Performed by Clara Engel

Mixed and Engineered by Mitch Girio
Mastered by Richard G. Benoit

Featuring guest musicians: Morgan Doctor, Betty Dimo, Bruno Capinan, Michael-David Blostein, Steven Calver aka Jacob, Mitch Girio

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tags: alternative apocalyptic folk blues experimental folk gothic Toronto

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“Clara Engel’s voice comes to me from that deepest of all places, imaginative space, from which she visually retrieves an inner landscape converted by breath into the rock equivalent of poetry. Rarely has a voice sounded so authoritative, so unapologetic in its disclosures, so sure of its direction in going home into song,” - British poet Jeremy Reed

*Banner Portrait of Clara by Yuki Komura* ... more

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Track Name: O My Love is a Hurricane
o my love is a hurricane
can't be collared or chained
o my life is a valley raped
by a storming rain
o my love is a hurricane
bruise the sky black, streaming
o my love is a hurricane
stirs wild the rivers of my veins
once i was strong and free
behold what's left of me
your strong arms bend the willow trees
hold what's left of me
o my love is a hurricane
can't be collared or chained
o my life is a valley raped
by a storming rain
Track Name: O Sailor
o sailor
o sailor
lower the sail
let us drift for a while
come have a glass of wine with me
sailor
sailor
lower the sail
let us drift for a while
come have a glass of wine with me
cause the nights get so long
and a traveler sometimes
he gets lonely
o sailor
o sailor
caler la voile
perdons-nous dans la nuit
viens boire un verre du vin avec moi
o sailor
o sailor
lower the sail, let us drift for a while
let me sit down on your knee
cause the nights get so long
and a traveler sometimes
he gets lonely...
Track Name: Illuminate Me
gash my soles
lead me bloody through the snow
smiling
illuminate me
gash my soles
lead me bloody through the snow
smiling
illuminate me

harness to this lunar soul
a sweat stained bloodied human groan
sweet blues and ache
and mouth to kiss
illuminate me
glorious

write my mother
say i'm coming home
i just couldn't make it in this world alone
homesick sailor on a bus
swollen mouth and none to kiss
blooms overgrown and overbled
my fever scorched mind
charred stiff and dead

illuminate me

sister silence swallows lust
let the rhythm break your jaw
let the summer eat your shame
illuminate me

illuminate me glorious
knock me up with golden dust
stone the one eyed cock of day
he's been shot down
a broken leg
my misery's too heavy mama
let it come down
born kicking and screaming
on the summer ground

illuminate me

curly haired cupid you can rest your head
the lovers lie together, dead
and i'm still a stranger to this place
so exterminate me with your kiss
illuminate me
glorious
Track Name: Hard To Get To Heaven
dreaming of heaven in hospital white
sun bloodies my fingers and i open my eyes
miles of black highway spread open wide
lined with flaming torches
straw men hitching rides
it's hard to get to heaven tonight
it's hard to get to heaven tonight

i wish there was a way that i could hitch a ride
but i'm scared to sell my body
and my minds losing its fire
all eyes on clocktowers
rolling wheels of time
are wrecked and rusted in the cloudy night

ashen snow
falls through the light
lands on my fingers
on my tongue and in my eyes
is it manna from heaven
it's so bitter and crystalline
it's hard to get to heaven tonight
it's hard to get to heaven tonight

i wish i was high
in a heavenly fury's eye
in a storm
i wish i was a golden sandcrab
crawling on the ocean's floor
then my tears wouldn't fall
and my blood wouldn't be warm
my tears wouldn't fall
and my blood wouldn't be warm

rock me to sleep, darling
keep me safe from harm
my blood is still warm
my blood is still warm
Track Name: Why For An Hour
why for an hour
and never forever
why
for this one hour
i never felt better
yes to your violets
under this dark dark weather
why do i cry so

you say heaven is ours
when we stop asking
drinking rainwater
from your fine china
close my eyes
it's the nectar of stars
tangerine wine

revenants rising
on ashen horizons
tired hearts hold
in bodies long broken
see us coming over the hills
in droves
why do we cry so
Track Name: I Wear Your Coat
i wear your coat
it makes me believe
you're still here with me
it keeps me warm
and all of my fragile kingdoms
from harm