video edited by:<br /> <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidDBurkhart" title="https://twitter.com/DavidDBurkhart" target='_blank'>https://twitter.com/DavidDBurkhart</a><br /> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/daviddeanburkhart" title="https://www.facebook.com/daviddeanburkhart" target='_blank'>https://www.facebook.com/daviddeanburkhart</a><br /> <br /> For more good music, follow me on spotify: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/user/daviddeanburkhart" title="https://open.spotify.com/user/daviddeanburkhart" target='_blank'>https://open.spotify.com/user/daviddeanburkhart</a><br /> I have a playlist called "Compact Cassette" that I update and change weekly (a regularly modified rotation, kind of like a radio station)<br /> <br /> From the album "An Awesome Wave." Footage is from the beautiful 1988 film "Powaqqatsi: Life in Transformation."<br /> <br /> Lyrics:<br /> <br /> Indochina, Capa jumps Jeep, two feet creep up the road<br /> To photo, to record meat lumps and war,<br /> They advance as does his chance -- very yellow white flash.<br /> A violent wrench grips mass, rips light, tears limbs like rags,<br /> Burst so high finally Capa lands,<br /> Mine is a watery pit. Painless with immense distance<br /> From medic from colleague, friend, enemy,<br /> foe, him five yards from his leg, From you Taro.<br /> Do not spray into eyes -- I have sprayed you into my eyes.<br /> <span class="playtime" data-second="190" title="pm, Capa pends death, quivers, last rattles, last chokes">3:10</span> pm, Capa pends death, quivers, last rattles, last chokes<br /> All colours and cares glaze to grey, shrivelled and stricken to dots,<br /> Left hand grasps what the body grasps not -- le photographe est mort.<br /> 3.1415, alive no longer my amour, faded for home May of '54<br /> Doors open like arms my love, Painless with a great closeness<br /> To Capa, to Capa Capa dark after nothing,<br /> re-united with his leg and with you, Taro.<br /> Do not spray into eyes -- I have sprayed you into my eyes.<br /> Hey Taro!<br /> <br /> For more Alt-J:<br /> <br /> <a href="http://altjband.com/" title="http://altjband.com/" target='_blank'>http://altjband.com/</a><br /> <a href="http://soundcloud.com/alt-j" title="http://soundcloud.com/alt-j" target='_blank'>http://soundcloud.com/alt-j</a><br /> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/altJ.band" title="https://www.facebook.com/altJ.band" target='_blank'>https://www.facebook.com/altJ.band</a><i class="fa fa-language transViewIcon clickable" title="Translation"></i>
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