Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Dead Flag Blues

From the CD F#A#∞

Extracts from A short film by Irish artist Nicky Larkin, shot in Pripyat, in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

The full film is well worth a view. It can be seen here on YouTube in two parts.
Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAO8pyLDXW0 and
Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYVcsSS-u0M

If you want to watch the whole of Nicky Larkin's video uncut then it can be viewed at, http://www.myspace.com/nickylarkin/

The car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel
And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
And a dark wind blows
The government is corrupt
And we're on so many drugs
With the radio on and the curtains drawn

We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
And the machine is bleeding to death

The sun has fallen down
And the billboards are all leering
And the flags are all dead at the top of their poles

It went like this

The buildings tumbled in on themselves
Mothers clutching babies picked through the rubble and pulled out their hair

The skyline was beautiful on fire
All twisted metal stretching upwards
Everything washed in a thin orange haze

I said, "Kiss me, you're beautiful..
These are truly the last days"

You grabbed my hand and we fell into it
Like a daydream or a fever

We woke up one morning and fell a little further down
For sure it's the valley of death

I open up my wallet
And it's full of blood

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• Chernobyl
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor
• Dead Flag Blues
• F# A#∞
• Infinity
• Nicky Larkin
• ∞
• pripyat
• nickylarkin

[insektuo]

dude...no offense but..you should put the credits for the shortfilm...this is PRIPYAT, made by Nicky Larkin an irish film maker.

[terr0rkitten]

I have tagged him but you are right, I must credit him somewhere more prominent and will. Very remiss of me and I will fix it.

[Foley11]

This is awesome!! Good to see when someone understands good music terr0rkitten.

[GuppyMister]

this puts me in deep thought

[LApirtle]

Well done.

[gomebigge]

TARKOVSKY'S STALKER

[roftie1]

I've just seen "City of life and death" at the curzon. It reminded me of this song.

[devildaz1]

thought provoking

[aroundtheworlda]

Illuminati

[BrokenBananaPhones]

My feelings that were brought out by this video and this song. :-) Phil seems to have a way with that. Much better than Tarantinos uber blood lust, but that's just my oppinion on Tarantino I guess. This video was made in Chernobyl, Ukraine. Years after the melt down. That amusement park never heard a childs laughter or whoops of joy. Only wailing and pain of mothers crying over poisoned family. Very sad but moving melancholi beauty. Makes you ask deep questions... Both inwardly and outwardly.

[thelastwords]

powerful

[jreece135]

Wow, this is amazing