02 "Ghosts" by R.B. Russell and Lidwine

Vocals by Lidwine. Music, lyric and video by R.B. Russell.

Copyright R.B. Russell and Lidwine, 2012.

With many thanks to Ludomatic for video footage of Lidwine.

"Ghosts" is track 2 from from the CD "Ghosts", by R.B. Russell, released by Klanggalerie, 2012.

Copies of the CD can be purchased direct here: http://tartaruspress.com/russell1.htm

Please visit Lidwine's website at: http://www.lidwine.com/

"Chaldon Down has many ghosts. For Gamel and Alyse, and, okay, perhaps even Llewellyn."

The lyric for "Ghosts" is taken from the following poem by R.B. Russell:

On Chaldon Down

His leave-taking was undetected.
With small, slow movements
He left the warm bed, the cosy room,
The comfortable cottage.

To drive out the darkness that surrounded him;
He tried to think of where he was heading
A door on the latch, a fire still burning,
And another bed ready and waiting.

As he strode out across the sleeping Downs
The cold night air caught in his throat;
It was as though he was forced to breathe in
The vast vacuum from between the stars.

And everything around him was dead.
Nothing to nourish, no warmth, no sound.
He was following a dim track that wound
Between black fields that had no end.

His heart suddenly hammered, afraid.
A red light blazed on the horizon
He was brought to a stop by something
Rising up in anger before him.

A huge moon was hauling herself
Up out of the ground
But as she pulled clear she drained of colour
And shrinking, cooled and hardened
To a brilliant whiteness that seemed
To condemn him, but, none the less,
Picked out his path in the chalk
To show the way ahead.

(First published in "Staple 69/70", 2008)

See also:
03 "Vermiculation" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyWf46...
04 "Perrier, Mildew, Loganberry" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TchEi0...
05 "Love" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnudBg...
06 "She Sleeps" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF-ZPH...
07 "Llanfihangel" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXoiqJ...
08 "Floating Upwards" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG6sxn...
09 "Bleed" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpBkV0...
10 "Poppyhead" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADp_Qd...
11 "Harrow & Wealdstone" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ylq1A...

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