Starling Electric - Tattoo
"Clouded Staircase" Available August 19, 2008 on Bar/None Records.
A Sword In The Spring Office
by Li Ho (A.D. 791-817)
In the ancestral chest lies a watery sword, three feet long.
Once it followed and killed a dragon in the chasm of Wu.
Like a slanting crescent moon seen from a cave, the moon
shaving the chill dews,
Or like a stretched strip of satin, smooth, unruffled by the wind,
The sheath like an old dragon's skin bristling with thorns.
The blade has absorbed sea birds' oil, shines like a white bird's
tail.
This sword contains the whole heart of the hero.
Do not let its light be reflected on the print in the Spring Office.
Let there be tassled silk twists and bright metals hanging from
it.
Just the heavenly light from the sword can cut jade to pieces.
When it was drawn, the White King of the West shuddered;
On the autumn pathways his ghostly mother wept at midnight.
-Thanks Michelle O'Brien, Chad the artist, The Polish Girl, Hurley's twin, and "Frazetta Girl"
Channel: Music
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: Mixstuff
Length: 01:21
Rating: 5.00
Views: 1171
Tags: Ann Arbor Bar Bar-None Bar/None DeCamillis Dillon Electric Fossum Michelle None O'Brien Starling
Video Comments
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awesomejaytc (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Hey from a Lunatic Band-Dad , I am listening to my favorite cut from the CD and watching what appears to be a rather normal looking girl being mutilated all for the sake of fandom !! Oh well , I'm happy if she is and it will promote album sales !!!!!! Keep Rockin' in the Free World , Boys !!!!
maredillon50 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Hi, Michelle - I can't believe you did this.
Caleb showed it to me and said it's very symbolic of one of his songs...you'll have to tell me the story. You are basically a lunatic for having this done, although it's a beautiful tattoo. Write when you can! Mary D, bandmum. |
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