Ukraina from Dniprovia by Ostara
Richard Leviathan, formerly of STRENGTH THROUGH JOY, has enjoyed a long creative affiliation with Douglas Pearce of Death In June, who released Strength Through Joy’s single “Dark Rose” and two albums in the mid 1990’s. Leviathan and Pearce collaborated on Death in June’s Kapo! and Scorpion Wind with Boyd Rice and John Murphy in 1996. Ostara has been Leviathan’s solo project since 2002 with six previous releases that have firmly established him in the Neofolk genre. "Evocative titles, intellectually stimulating poetry, strong melodies, a feel for language, smooth clear voices and a polished professional sound characterise the work of Ostara.
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Tracklist
| 22. | Ostara - Ukraina | 3:11 |
Lyrics
There is a stone on the heart
Heavy with the burden of a dying past
Baked in the dirt of a morbid nostalgia
A sullen army ghosts the sky,
the suns of dead fathers
in the lead of their eyes,
the Patriarch kisses the ghost of a Tsar,
the spectre of Christ in the murder of Caesar
There is a stone on the heart
and when the weight is lifted
We shall not glorify our fallen
or hear the nightingale sing without lament
When the stone is lifted
there shall not be a mask of gold
or a brazen shield of bronze
but the twisted steel of a rusted star
and a bed of weeds alive with worms
Paris is grey
in the coldness of spring
the wine is dark
as the soil of Europa
My homeland is not
the Motherland
an orphan of terror
the deadest of hands
My homeland is not
the Fatherland
a child of rapist
and partisan
My soul is black
with blossoms of blood
a son kills a mother
a brother no brother
Credits
Words and music by Richard Leviathan
