alt-J – Taro
alt-J – Taro (2012)
Directed by: Melissa Murray
From the album “An Awesome Wave.” Footage is from the beautiful 1988 film “Powaqqatsi: Life in Transformation.”
Lyrics:
Indochina, Capa jumps Jeep, two feet creep up the road
To photo, to record meat lumps and war,
They advance as does his chance — very yellow white flash.
A violent wrench grips mass, rips light, tears limbs like rags,
Burst so high finally Capa lands,
Mine is a watery pit. Painless with immense distance
From medic from colleague, friend, enemy,
foe, him five yards from his leg, From you Taro.
Do not spray into eyes — I have sprayed you into my eyes.
3:10 pm, Capa pends death, quivers, last rattles, last chokes
All colours and cares glaze to grey, shrivelled and stricken to dots,
Left hand grasps what the body grasps not — le photographe est mort.
3.1415, alive no longer my amour, faded for home May of ’54
Doors open like arms my love, Painless with a great closeness
To Capa, to Capa Capa dark after nothing,
re-united with his leg and with you, Taro.
Do not spray into eyes — I have sprayed you into my eyes.
Hey Taro!
