After Nico delivering deliciously stone-cold world-weariness, lets turn to a different edge-of-existence song – with the extraordinary voice of Anohni, formerly Antony Hegarty, from 2005's I Am A Bird Now album. Hegarty had previously been recruited as a singer by none other than Lou Reed for his project, The Raven, after being spotted by producer Hal Willner on their first album in 1998, and on I Am A Bird Now, Reed guested along with others including , Rufus Wainwright, Boy George and Devendra Banhart. But it's the album opener which remains an outstanding piece of work, with those angelic trills, fluttering like a soul released from the body, and piano crescendos evoking the fear and fragility of a death-bed scene, and the tenderness and love hoped for any any person's final days. But this was really just the beginning for Anohni, whose career has continued to take off.
[Chorus]
Hope there's someone who'll take care of me
When I die
Will I go?
Hope there's someone who'll set my heart free
Nice to hold when I'm tired.
[Bridge]
There's a ghost on the horizon
When I go to bed
How can I fall asleep at night
How will I rest my head?
[Verse 1]
Oh I'm scared of the middle place
Between light and nowhere
I don't want to be the one
Left in there, left in there.
[Bridge 2]
There’s a man on the ‘rizon
Wish that I go to bed
If I fall to his feet tonight
Will I lost my head?
[Verse 2]
So here's hoping I will not drown
Or paralyse in light
And god said I don't want to go
To the seal's watershed
[Chorus]
Hope there's someone who'll take care of me
When I die
Will I go?
Hope there's someone who'll set my heart free
Nice to hold when I'm tired.
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