Alt-J (∆) - Taro

From the album "An Awesome Wave."
Footage is from the beautiful 1988 film "Powaqqatsi: Life in Transformation."

Lyrics

Indochina, Capa jumps Jeep, two feet creep up the road
To photo, to record meat lumps and war,
They advance as does his chance -- very yellow white flash.
A violent wrench grips mass, rips light, tears limbs like rags,
Burst so high finally Capa lands,
Mine is a watery pit. Painless with immense distance
From medic from colleague, friend, enemy,
foe, him five yards from his leg, From you Taro.
Do not spray into eyes -- I have sprayed you into my eyes.
3:10 pm, Capa pends death, quivers, last rattles, last chokes
All colours and cares glaze to grey, shrivelled and stricken to dots,
Left hand grasps what the body grasps not -- le photographe est mort.
3.1415, alive no longer my amour, faded for home May of '54
Doors open like arms my love, Painless with a great closeness
To Capa, to Capa Capa dark after nothing,
re-united with his leg and with you, Taro.
Do not spray into eyes -- I have sprayed you into my eyes.
Hey Taro!

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[Jorge Berruga]

It's lovely that people are sharing the meaning of this song, but I am sorry to say is got one meaning: Its about Robert Capa and Gerda Taro, two war time photographers that were in love back in the 50s. They covered 5 different wars but i think this is in Japan. Capa lost his leg during a photo shoot. This song is about his death and about his reunion with Taro. "re-united with his leg and with you, Taro."

[ceelia19]

This fucking song is so perfect. I love it. I love Alt-J.

[Paul Schmidpeter]

that's not my style of music, but I think it's one of the greatest songs I've ever heard..

[pga128]

the faces starting at 3:45

[Dylan Dog]

beautiful both, song and video.

[margaridalobita]

You will need them: 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 :)

[Katie Westwater]

the cultural music in this is absolute perfection

[hamacWay]

what a band! what an album! what a song!

cheers from france

[Олександр Кущ]

1.12 - 1.25 can listen forever for this part...<3

[Foxie Neikun]

Because literal meanings are all that can be gleaned from art.