Name: Frida
Duration: P00H06M06S
Description: I wrote this song in the most strenuous days of my life – to soothe myself and all the women from the hospital ward, trembling between life and death. And also for Frida Kahlo.

Frida

from Hope's Beautiful Daughters by Katarina Juvančič & Dejan Lapanja

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I wrote this song in the most strenuous days of my life – to soothe myself and all the women from the hospital ward, trembling between life and death. And also for Frida Kahlo.

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FRIDA

Dark is the night in the belly of dreams

The cradle of death is as near as it seems

If rivers of tears would fill out the sea

I’d drown all my pain for you and for me.

May those arms gently rock me

Living waters wash away

Great black hole that swallows limbs

Of a body that no longer screams.

What grows from Eve’s rib will not stand alone

The power of life is written in stone

Who is willing to break it apart

Raven that pecks the drum of my heart.

May those arms gently rock me

Living waters wash away

Lips that can no longer tell

Who can break this earthly spell.

The curse of white hell is all that I fear

Night creeps in, the end it is near

Red are the sheets, red is my blood

Wild as a fire and quick as a flood.

May those arms gently rock me

Living waters wash away

Smell of earth and my last breath

A life that’s stronger still than death.

May those arms gently rock me

Living waters wash away

A cry for help so you can hear

The sound of my own uncried tear.

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from Hope's Beautiful Daughters, released August 11, 2014

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Katarina Juvančič and Dejan Lapanja first appeared on the Slovenian music scene in 2009, with their folk rock song Uej uej (Magdalenca), featured in Slovenian National Radio’s newcomers contest. Their music is often described as alt-folk, bridging modern trends and ancient folk influences and sensibilities. ... more

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