Fortuna, I am a spear fisherman - Blackbird Raum

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  • Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
  • Album: Purse-Seine, 2007
    www.blackpowder...
    The monologue at the end is a poem.
    The Purse Seine
    by Robinson Jeffers
    Our sardine fishermen work at night in the dark of the moon;
    daylight or moonlight
    They could not tell where to spread the net, unable to see the
    phosphorescence of the shoals of fish.
    They work northward from Monterey, coasting Santa Cruz; off
    New Year's Point or off Pigeon Point
    The look-out man will see some lakes of milk-color light on the
    sea's night-purple; he points and the helmsman
    Turns the dark prow, the motorboat circles the gleaming shoal
    and drifts out her seine-net. They close the circle
    And purse the bottom of the net, then with great labor haul it in.
    I cannot tell you
    How beautiful the scene is, and a little terrible, then, when the
    crowded fish
    Know they are caught, and wildly beat from one wall to the
    other of their closing destiny the phosphorescent
    Water to a pool of flame, each beautiful slender body sheeted
    with flame, like a live rocket
    A comet's tail wake of clear yellow flame; while outside the
    narrowing
    Floats and cordage of the net great sea-lions come up to watch,
    sighing in the dark; the vast walls of night
    Stand erect to the stars.
    Lately I was looking from a night mountain-top
    On a wide city, the colored splendor, galaxies of light: how could
    I help but recall the seine-net
    Gathering the luminous fish? I cannot tell you how beautiful
    the city appeared, and a little terrible.
    I thought, We have geared the machines and locked all together
    into interdependence; we have built the great cities; now
    There is no escape. We have gathered vast populations incapable
    of free survival, insulated
    From the strong earth, each person in himself helpless, on all
    dependent. The circle is closed, and the net
    Is being hauled in. They hardly feel the cords drawing, yet they
    shine already. The inevitable mass-disasters
    Will not come in our time nor in our children's, but we and our
    children
    Must watch the net draw narrower, government take all powers
    -or revolution, and the new government
    Take more than all, add to kept bodies kept souls- or anarchy,
    the mass-disasters.
    These things are Progress;
    Do you marvel our verse is troubled or frowning, while it keeps
    its reason? Or it lets go, lets the mood flow
    In the manner of the recent young men into mere hysteria, splin-
    tered gleams, crackled laughter. But they are quite wrong.
    There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that
    cultures decay, and life's end is death.

Комментарии • 46

  • @iamweapon
    @iamweapon 6 лет назад +22

    All these years later and this still chills my bones.

  • @scooterdood661
    @scooterdood661 13 лет назад +10

    The monologue at the end is a poem.
    The Purse-Seine by Robinson Jeffers.

  • @Haden475
    @Haden475 9 лет назад +17

    I've just been listening to this on loop every afternoon for days now. I love it so much, an oldie but a goodie.

  • @jacobpaladini2072
    @jacobpaladini2072 2 года назад +1

    "fortuna I am a spearfisherman, home of the Carl's Jr. Angus Thic-Burger!"

  • @ricardcharbonier7167
    @ricardcharbonier7167 5 лет назад +3

    Please don't ever stop making this sweet music!

  • @cubones_momma
    @cubones_momma 13 лет назад +13

    OK, I wrote down most of it, didnt finish the monologue mainly becvause theres a crescendo in the piano and i cant understand him and untill I do I basically wont go on :/ sorry guys but here.
    6:13 Black roots of dune, It tears at the roots. The worst is near and I wonder what it begged and tied under night.
    Chorus:Keep your weary hearts of water over land they built an altar.
    Back Chorus Female:Just exactly plagued and forth died, shadow sweat are rigged and art right.

  • @justinfreake4916
    @justinfreake4916 5 лет назад +1

    This might be the best song ever written. purse siene might be the best album ever written.

  • @snuffy420
    @snuffy420 7 лет назад +4

    this is the greatest song

  • @JSJ_VISUALS
    @JSJ_VISUALS 16 дней назад +1

    If anyone has a copy of this album... send me a DM! (cant find it anywhere)

  • @yournewstepdad6_68
    @yournewstepdad6_68 12 лет назад +1

    this is the best folk band i ever heard number one in my books ;]

  • @eonalate112
    @eonalate112 12 лет назад +4

    Kinda switches up for me, based on my mood. Jihad when I'm having a generally good day, BB Raum any other time.

  • @SophieRachel
    @SophieRachel 13 лет назад +2

    beautiful.

  • @MsWubwub
    @MsWubwub 12 лет назад +2

    THANK YOU SO MUCH
    I got this album when it came out, and have had no idea what the chorus was.

    • @stardustfarmacy5059
      @stardustfarmacy5059 10 месяцев назад +1

      "keep your weary heart o' water, over land they built an altar." that's what i sing

  • @xEbonYx42
    @xEbonYx42 9 лет назад +2

    in love with this

  • @themanclaw2
    @themanclaw2 13 лет назад +12

    I cannot tell you how beautiful this song is... and a little terrible ;)

  • @MsWubwub
    @MsWubwub 12 лет назад +1

    Although I hear "the ground subdues...it tears at the roots"

  • @jandenijs2267
    @jandenijs2267 9 лет назад +1

    very very nice.
    Jan

  • @allenschmitz9644
    @allenschmitz9644 11 лет назад +5

    I'm gonna learn how to play honey in the hair on my 1937 accordion...from Italy..it was in america back then so im sure it didnt play any nazi polkas...

  • @TheCyanideKing
    @TheCyanideKing 13 лет назад +2

    Heard of this band today. Love this song. why doesn't itunes have it. :(

    • @terrancecollette6784
      @terrancecollette6784 Год назад +2

      Lmao itunes does not want you to know about this stuff, too sad lol

  • @johnnychaos91185
    @johnnychaos91185 11 лет назад +1

    David Doyle I would love to learn how to play the accordion. I played piano for years and now I play harmonica which makes me want to learn accordion.

    • @Ieatbabyseals
      @Ieatbabyseals 10 лет назад +1

      Do it! The hardest part is the left side of the accordion, but once you have that you are golden.

  • @silvasampaio6109
    @silvasampaio6109 2 года назад +2

    Why isn't this at Spotify?

  • @Dicktavern
    @Dicktavern 7 лет назад +2

    reminds me a lot of silver mt zion

  • @Zero_8347
    @Zero_8347 4 года назад +1

    I want to learn this on piano

  • @CrownedAnarchy
    @CrownedAnarchy 5 лет назад +1

    8:50, poem

  • @christarsky1
    @christarsky1 12 лет назад +1

    I miss you hailibear

  • @scooterdood661
    @scooterdood661 12 лет назад +4

    Seeing how poetry appeals to some people. = Enjoying the search for a job with a women's studies degree. Wat?

  • @CrownedAnarchy
    @CrownedAnarchy 4 года назад +3

    where did you get the image?

  • @mithermage
    @mithermage 12 лет назад +1

    if anyone could make the music, that would be soooo awesome I'd pay

  • @cubones_momma
    @cubones_momma 12 лет назад +1

    Ide take that as an answer, its hard getting all the lyrics right and im open to interpretation.

  • @Proteined
    @Proteined 13 лет назад +1

    Does anyone have or know where to find the sheet music for this?

  • @dwdoyle8854
    @dwdoyle8854 11 лет назад +1

    fucking pianos are epic. i'd hnad in my squeeze box for a piano anyday.
    well, no i wouldnt but still, pianos are so under appreciated.

  • @scooterdood661
    @scooterdood661 12 лет назад

    That's just false.