Lowlands en Pukkelpopweekend maken dat ik extra veel naar muziek luister en ik wederom ontdek dat er een song deze zomer “under my skin”is geslopen en me heeft betoverd. Al meteen bij de eerste luisterbeurt in het voorjaar moest ik mijn DAB+ radio harder zetten en was ik even in de war en dacht ik Anne Clarck (van o.a. Our Darkness uit de donkere jaren 80).

Maar dit bleek Kate Tempest te zijn met FIRESMOKE

Ga ook zeker naar haar optreden naast de headliners en laat je betoveren door haar poëzie, rap en misschien net zo raken als ik deed bij deze songtekst

“And there is something in this tenderness that makes me want to live”

“Cause for so many years my love's been a burden
But now comes this fire to cleanse and restore us
To fuel us and calm us and push us both forwards”

Zie hier de songtekst en hieronder ook de video met lyrics en ook de link naar speciaal optreden tijdens Best Kept Secret 2019 van 3 voor 12 radio live sessions

Firesmoke

Kate Tempest

My visionary is a vision
I watch her dancing by the window
And it rips my flesh to ribbons
And the whole world is just ripples
In the middle distance
I listen to her hips
I push my kisses to her lips
We move like we were born to move
The night is teeth and pistons
And there is something in this tenderness that makes me want to live

Firesmoke
Her mouth sets free this captive
Come close to me
Free me
Let me untangle the madness that knots you
I drop to my knees and crawl across you
I tell you I've got you
It's firesmoke
So go on, give me three days of your body and mine
Time is a blind eye and I see your mind in my mind's eye
You make me immortal
You take me to space
You are a planet
A place I've not known
Your body is home to rare gods
I kneel at their temple
I'm blown to bits, gentle, ferocious
We are open
Explosives have nothing compared to these sparks
So let's fall apart
And then lie with me, breathing in the den of the dark
It's firesmoke
Your mouth sets free this captive come close to me
Free me
Untangle the madness that knots me
You drop to your knees, you crawl across me
You lick your lips softly, it's firesmoke
The fire, rises between us
And makes us get on the wrong trains
Walk the wrong way
Make strangers smile greetings on Lewisham way
I bathe in this fire
It warms without burning
Compels without force
And it turns without turning the world
So please, you keep your purpose
Your poise and your journey
I'll be by the fire
Thinking, nothing I've learned can prepare me
For everything else that needs learning
Is this how it feels to feel certain?
Cause for so many years my love's been a burden
But now comes this fire to cleanse and restore us
To fuel us and calm us and push us both forwards
Forwards
Forwards

Songwriters: Daniel de Mussenden Carey / Kate Tempest

What makes me live

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