Closing Time | I see a Darkness
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Laat u niet bedotten door het vrolijke deuntje en de maffe video. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy’s ‘I see a Darkness’ is een mistroostig lied over de kanten van onszelf die we liever niet laten zien.
Well, you’re my friend, and can you see?
Many times, we’ve been out drinking;
Many times we shared our thoughts.
But did you ever, ever notice, the kind of thoughts I got?
Well, you know I have a love; a love for everyone I know.
And you know I have a drive, to live I won’t let go.
But can you see its opposition, comes rising up sometimes?
That its dreadful imposition, comes blacking in my mind?And then I see a darkness…