Mesmeric, magical and experimental, an oddly beautiful, gently moving and uplifting new alt-folk single by the Glasgow-based Canadian artist about about the cyclical nature of suffering, endurance and survival. Influenced by spending time in and studying art in Finland, and also on the back of a painful loss, the song and video features a symbolic moon making Leif pass through a golden ring again and again, and, between bouts of struggles, encountering, with a cartoonish knife, characterisations also of a masked bull and an ominous sun. There’s a mix of slight scariness, courage and dark humour, and ultimately conquering fears of the inner beast. Refreshingly different, taken from the forthcoming album, Come Back To Me, But Lightly, out in January on the wonderful Lost Map Records label from the island of Eigg.
Well the knife cuts, at the sharp edge:
the deeper it slides
the dearer you hold it.
And that jacket was reflective:
you looked like the moon whenever you wore it.
You pass through, you pass through it.
Yeah you pass back through, when you come back to it.
Well that bull hits, with its bull’s head:
a part of you bends,
and a part of you bruises.
And those small birds looked just like half moons:
they shone with the sunlight,
reflected, reflected.
You pass through! You pass back through it.
Yeah you pass back through, when you come back to it.
You pass through! You pass through it.
Yeah you pass back through, when you tether yourself to it.
You come back to it, you come back to it.
Well that one bird slips, sure as a bullet:
out of your chest,
and over your head.
And that thought thins out, as you stand there watching it:
A part of you
lifts.
You pass through, you pass through it.
Yeah you pass back through.
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