Spleen from Spleen by Kelp

This song is about some revolting peasants who have murdered the heir to the throne because they fear his potential fascism. They dump his body in a stream where it is eaten by fish, but he returns as a sort of ghostly *caprinae to haunt their mountain villages, rightly so.

The subfamily Caprinae is part of the ruminant family Bovidae, and consists of mostly medium-sized bovids. A member of this subfamily is called a caprine, or, more informally, a goat-antelope; however, this term "goat-antelope" does not mean that these animals are true antelopes: a true antelope is a bovid with a cervid-like or antilocaprid-like morphology

Tracklist

1.	Spleen	6:40

Lyrics

My lilting train sailed through
Sunlit leaves, rouge-burnt bush and breeze
Cast in a brook, my flank and choppy nape
Devoured by carp
Through bright winds I bounded quilled rivers
My raped bones chilled banks of ~hiver~
And all the while the sky kept falling down

I woke up falling in someone else's dream

A kingdom far below was to be mine
And heaven didn't seem to be my home
A kingdom far below was to be mine
And heaven didn't seem to be my home

As I wandered through murky twilight
Cast as a shadow
Obscuring bracken 'neath forlorn hillsides
Unbridled, club-hoofed and dyed
And peering up through chill and startling dusk
Your window light
The bell around my collar wrestles
Gently in its windy vessel
And with that I'm vanished to the gloom

Credits

from Spleen, track released November 12, 2020
Written and Produced by Jordie Sunshine
Talk Box by Jordie Sunshine
Mixed and Mastered by Niall Doran at Gravy Ring Studios, Belfast
Artwork by Jordie Sunshine

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