Shirley Manson - Forgiveness & Exile [Poem by Chris Connelly]

Shirley Manson reads the poem on Chris Connelly work.

"This is a sand, just like centuries,
When all is forgiven,
Still reigning from the hour-glass,
Round like a lens in the sun,
As the competition marches point blank to your zero,
The circling hunger just howls like an audience,
Try to determine each way, each cry,
Each muscle of the language
Too tired to communicate,
No longer exiled,
But your will, it remains so,
Prone like an X in the sand,
Defying any water to fall on this land,
The dulled overview presents only spectres of a life,
Red, Adriatic, Caspian, Dead,
Move like the ghosts of the dead air,
Measured steps, and fatal betrayal,
This is sand from the centre,
Curved fracture of the world,
The steam that lies beneath the sea,
The broken window passage,
Glass reflection of the landscape,
These are more than injured times,
The tidal inches towards total,
The tide inclined where it cant find,
The time slipped in the fractured world,
Hidden by curls of steam,
They trace out a map of affliction,
And it matches the citys disguise,
Now owned by the frightened in the margins,
Bathing their fear in the space between storms,
The choral that you breathe to,
The choral that you breathe against,
Walks out of the air and undresses in front of you,
Triumph and funeral, ghost of the air,
Wretched, crippled clothes decorate iron-dark water,
Ophelias opposite with a blue-black grin,
The stars and the last of the electric light
Pick out and reverse the features,
Gluttony of theatre,
Blue-black and grinning again,
Hand-claw attack pose,
Like the monger just froze flat against the frame,
The background paintings,
Skill of the pardons you will not hear again
The sutures unreason,
But they punctuate skin,
Illustrating the fracture of world,
No more severe skies, no more air,
As the insects multiply and ignite,
No more air, no more air, no more air".

Thanks very much to Paul Anderson (ABSOLUTgarbage) for the lyrics

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[TheCanadianPrairies]

Andrea, where do you get all this stuff?!

[andrea111292]

@TheCanadianPrairies All over the net!

[tikaroshi]

hi!! very nice video, can u please please write what shirley says?? i'm from mexico and i can't understand very well all of the words she says, thanks!!

[andrea111292]

I'm sorry I'm italian and I can't understand well what she says either! She talks too fast . Maybe an english or an american person could help!

[elkartian]

i could listen to Shirley's beautiful voice for hours ,she should make a cd of poems,she calms me and makes me feel good ''No more AIr''

[AcidRainbow05]

Her voice is amazingly soothing...I could listen to it all day long and never get tired...

[MasterShifty]

I'd always wanted to hear this! Crhis Connelly is good stuff as well, and the fact that he collaborated with Shirley is freakin' awesome!

[Fairrrytale]

Thank YOU SO much Andrea for sharing! Loving it! The poem, Shirley's voice and accent and the background music!

[LissaChelle9002]

This is pure, epic awesomeness right here.

[KalikaInLeather]

she did the music?

Anyway, I like the text, and my fav part is when the music fades and there's only Shirleys' voice and the words meft. Very inspiriationnal (if this word exists lol).

Thx Andrea for this!

[catumoonlight]

OMG...

[LittleLilianGahan]

Love her voice, her accent.

It's pure magic!

[ntnat]

oooohh i love her voice!!!

[Evanncash]

When does she did this??? It's amazing!!! I LOVE SHIRLEY MANSON. Every single thing she does, it's like GOLD 4 me...