This song is about Xu Lizhi, a young Chinese worker who ended his life back in 2014. During his short lifetime, he wrote some wondrous poems. The poems were about the hard and unforgiving lives of the workers. The song's name is a reference to one of his poems: "I swallowed a Moon Made of Iron" He was born only two weeks after I came to this world and while I was living an easy life my parents provided me, he lived in the shadows of factories, enslaved by corporations blinded by avarice. He was a beautiful person in a fucked up world.
this was the poem I swallowed a moon made of iron / They call it Screw I swallowed the industrial effluent, orders of unemployment / The youths lower than machines have untimely died young I swallowed the toil, swallowed the displacement, / Swallowed the overpasses, swallowed the life full of limescale I can't swallow any more / All I’ve swallowed down are surging out of my throat, Spreading out across the territory of my country and becoming a / Poem of shame
"Iron Moon" A dead sun, a pale glow Upon the walls I feign to know We bear no fruit, no flowers, no life And we get sick but never die Become an echo Resounding “let go” My heart is a tomb My heart is an empty room I've given it away I never want to see it again I go to him in paths of dreams In bed awake with shadow beings They crawl inside and wait with me The creatures here become machines Walk with me to a place of trust Death will no longer silence us My heart is a tomb My heart is an empty room I've given it away I never want to see it again And all your words could save me But keep your love away from me In all the world's decaying Is there a place that’s safe for us? My heart is a tomb My heart is an empty room I've given it away I've swallowed the iron moon Moon, moon
The last part sounds like thousands of people screaming in agony, it never fails to raise the hairs on my neck and cry involuntarily like a baby. One of the best songs ever. What a touching homage to the Foxconn employees.
Herr Schaft she's hyped now but she's been around for a while and people who 've followed her for a while love her so much she has a sort of cult following. its nice that she's getting more and more popular cause she deserves all success and the world deserves to listen to better music compared to 99% of shit out there.
Stelios Pits I agree, but there's a lot of great music out there, thousands of creative and awesome musicians who are unknown to most of people and this will always happen because thankfully not every cute singer takes off her clothes or sings about shits just to sell more albums
我弥留之际》 “On My Deathbed” 我想再看一眼大海，目睹我半生的泪水有多汪洋 I want to take another look at the ocean, behold the vastness of tears from half a lifetime 我想再爬一爬高高的山头，试着把丢失的灵魂喊回来 I want to climb another mountain, try to call back the soul that I’ve lost 我还想摸一摸天空，碰一碰那抹轻轻的蓝 I want to touch the sky, feel that blueness so light 可是这些我都办不到了，我就要离开这个世界了 But I can’t do any of this, so I’m leaving this world 所有听说过我的人们啊 Everyone who’s heard of me 不必为我的离开感到惊讶 Shouldn’t be surprised at my leaving 更不必叹息，或者悲伤 Even less should you sigh or grieve 我来时很好，去时，也很好 I was fine when I came, and fine when I left. -- Xu Lizhi, 30 September 2014
Pretty cool blending the more ambient doom metal with folky clean guitars/vocals. Chelsea seems like she is more comfortable with her own style now. Fucking kick-ass! Pre-ordered the CD because I always know Chelsea will rock!
Every person or creature who has ever lived with eyes that see has seen the moon in the sky, and it has carried their sorrows without question. Look up. Feel the weight of it pulling on your gravity. So many lives of pain and Triumph. Whatever the outcome, it's heavy from all of us: Iron Moon
《一颗螺丝掉在地上》 "A Screw Fell to the Ground" 一颗螺丝掉在地上 A screw fell to the ground 在这个加班的夜晚 In this dark night of overtime 垂直降落，轻轻一响 Plunging vertically, lightly clinking 不会引起任何人的注意 It won’t attract anyone’s attention 就像在此之前 Just like last time 某个相同的夜晚 On a night like this 有个人掉在地上 When someone plunged to the ground -- 9 January 2014
I know this song is about the suicide of a foxconn worker who loved poetry and couldnt escape the life, but this is exactly how I feel about the world. Dead on. This song is what is in my heart. I love her...been listening to her for years now ever since Advice and Vices came out and Tall bodies...shes always been a favorite of mine. In my top 5 for sure
How I'm just listening to her is beyond me. This song is perfect, she's perfect! The beginning sounded very influenced by black metal, I also hear that in some of her other songs as well and saw somewhere that she did a cover of one of burzum songs. Very unique sound she has so happy I found her.
Chelsea Wolfe is my new favourite musician to listen to. I just bought part of her album Abyss on iTunes...the reason being that I had already spent much of my money buying a full album by TV On The Radio from iTunes. Her songs are really good. They capture my sombre angst as a twenty-something man teetering on the edge of loneliness. When I do get another gift card, I'll be sure to complete the album collection by buying the remaining songs I didn't get to buy on iTunes.
@CHELSEAxWOLFE Pour ma part, depuis toujours ! Quand on a un esprit torturé....En plus ce morceau est particulièrement triste... un peu comme la période en fait !
Lyrics A dead sun, a pale glow Upon the walls I feign to know We bear no fruit, no flowers, no life And we get sick but never die Become an echo Resounding "let go" My heart is a tomb My heart is an empty room I've given it away I never want to see it again I go to him in paths of dreams In bed awake with shadow beings They crawl inside and wait with me The creatures here become machines Walk with me to a place of trust Death will no longer silence us My heart is a tomb My heart is an empty room I've given it away I never want to see it again And all your words could save me But keep your love away from me In all the worlds decaying Is there place that's safe for us? My heart is a tomb My heart is an empty room I've given it away I've swallowed the iron moon Moon, moon
Good god damn this is one of the best albums I've heard in ages. It's like Neurosis + Jarboe after too much My Bloody Valentine, but scratch that, it was just in one of St. Vincent's dreams.
Is it just me, or is Chelsea Wolfe's catalogue/body of work/ouvre;) like idk wtf unbelievably almost flawless? I'm sure she would beg to differ but Good Goddamn she is amazing. I've yet to hear anything she's done that hasn't blown me bloody head off. Yes dangerously high Xpectations but geez. I'll shut up now. Long May She Reign
A dead sun, a pale glow. Upon the walls I feign to know. We bear no fruit, no flowers, no life. And we get sick but never die. Become an echo resounding "let go". My heart is a tomb. My heart is an empty room. I've given it away. I never want to see it again. I go to him in paths of dreams. In bed awake with shadow beings. They crawl inside and wait with me. The creatures here become machines. Walk with me to a place of trust. Death will no longer silence us. My heart is a tomb. My heart is an empty room. I've given it away. I never want to see it again. And all your words could save me. But keep your love away from me. In all the world's decaying is there a place that's safe for us? My heart is a tomb. My heart is an empty room. I've given it away. I swallowed the iron moon. Moon, moon.
All Chelsea Wolfe's stuff is so hauntingly beautiful. I am so glad Stephanie Opal Weinstein turned me on to her music some years earlier. This was the first album of her's i have ever heard & it remains my favorite
I just recently discovered this brilliant and beautiful artist. This music just sings to my soul in a way most of the world probably wouldn't quite understand. This song is absolutely beautiful and so fucking heavy. Also, wouldn't it be fucking amazing to hear/see a collaboration between Chelsea Wolfe and Rasputina? I don't know. Think about it. I think it would be fucking beautiful.
This song is about Xu Lizhi, a young Chinese worker who ended his life back in 2014. During his short lifetime, he wrote some wondrous poems. The poems were about the hard and unforgiving lives of the workers. The song's name is a reference to one of his poems: "I swallowed a Moon Made of Iron"
He was born only two weeks after I came to this world and while I was living an easy life my parents provided me, he lived in the shadows of factories, enslaved by corporations blinded by avarice. He was a beautiful person in a fucked up world.
Wow... thanks.
Thank you
this was the poem
I swallowed a moon made of iron / They call it Screw
I swallowed the industrial effluent, orders of unemployment / The youths lower than machines have untimely died young
I swallowed the toil, swallowed the displacement, / Swallowed the overpasses, swallowed the life full of limescale
I can't swallow any more / All I’ve swallowed down are surging out of my throat,
Spreading out across the territory of my country and becoming a / Poem of shame
@@12inchvertical Thank you sir.
His poems are fucking brutal. They floored me.
"Iron Moon"
A dead sun, a pale glow
Upon the walls I feign to know
We bear no fruit, no flowers, no life
And we get sick but never die
Become an echo
Resounding “let go”
My heart is a tomb
My heart is an empty room
I've given it away
I never want to see it again
I go to him in paths of dreams
In bed awake with shadow beings
They crawl inside and wait with me
The creatures here become machines
Walk with me to a place of trust
Death will no longer silence us
My heart is a tomb
My heart is an empty room
I've given it away
I never want to see it again
And all your words could save me
But keep your love away from me
In all the world's decaying
Is there a place that’s safe for us?
My heart is a tomb
My heart is an empty room
I've given it away
I've swallowed the iron moon
Moon, moon
Oh...my...gods what a beautiful poem...
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
(Thank you)
So beautiful it hurts
it took a bit for me to realize the shadow beings/creatures were children.
darker than ever
Ahhhhhh. 👏🏻🖤✨
Again.....I fucking love this woman
The last part sounds like thousands of people screaming in agony, it never fails to raise the hairs on my neck and cry involuntarily like a baby. One of the best songs ever. What a touching homage to the Foxconn employees.
What happened to them?
@@lavendergilly5843
See the comment above Seannie’s. The song is about a Chinese poet who live in industrial hell and dies early because of it.
it's pretty ridiculous how Chelsea only gets better; legitimately didn't think it was even possible..
Stelios Pits Totally.
Stelios Pits She's pretty hyped. But I like her music.
Herr Schaft she's hyped now but she's been around for a while and people who 've followed her for a while love her so much she has a sort of cult following. its nice that she's getting more and more popular cause she deserves all success and the world deserves to listen to better music compared to 99% of shit out there.
Stelios Pits I agree, but there's a lot of great music out there, thousands of creative and awesome musicians who are unknown to most of people and this will always happen because thankfully not every cute singer takes off her clothes or sings about shits just to sell more albums
Herr Schaft how does hype have anything to do with this song? keep your elitism to yourself
我弥留之际》
“On My Deathbed”
我想再看一眼大海，目睹我半生的泪水有多汪洋
I want to take another look at the ocean, behold the vastness of tears from half a lifetime
我想再爬一爬高高的山头，试着把丢失的灵魂喊回来
I want to climb another mountain, try to call back the soul that I’ve lost
我还想摸一摸天空，碰一碰那抹轻轻的蓝
I want to touch the sky, feel that blueness so light
可是这些我都办不到了，我就要离开这个世界了
But I can’t do any of this, so I’m leaving this world
所有听说过我的人们啊
Everyone who’s heard of me
不必为我的离开感到惊讶
Shouldn’t be surprised at my leaving
更不必叹息，或者悲伤
Even less should you sigh or grieve
我来时很好，去时，也很好
I was fine when I came, and fine when I left.
-- Xu Lizhi, 30 September 2014
holy shit man this fucking made me cry
Pretty cool blending the more ambient doom metal with folky clean guitars/vocals. Chelsea seems like she is more comfortable with her own style now. Fucking kick-ass! Pre-ordered the CD because I always know Chelsea will rock!
Easily one of the most innovative musicians out there today. Wish I could see her at desert daze
So Blissful, like succumbing to death but feeling that last bit of Ecstasy before its all over..
+stan clark damn
you ought to write verse lad
..Description of the month Stan!?.. Damn!..
Nice.
Provided that ecstasy in fact exists
I like how she explores different styles, and focuses on some... unique artist.
Messer Morfeo vivi giappone puzza e anche il porco calabrese
Beyond darkness dwells Miss Wolfe..
Every person or creature who has ever lived with eyes that see has seen the moon in the sky, and it has carried their sorrows without question. Look up. Feel the weight of it pulling on your gravity. So many lives of pain and Triumph. Whatever the outcome, it's heavy from all of us: Iron Moon
《一颗螺丝掉在地上》
"A Screw Fell to the Ground"
一颗螺丝掉在地上
A screw fell to the ground
在这个加班的夜晚
In this dark night of overtime
垂直降落，轻轻一响
Plunging vertically, lightly clinking
不会引起任何人的注意
It won’t attract anyone’s attention
就像在此之前
Just like last time
某个相同的夜晚
On a night like this
有个人掉在地上
When someone plunged to the ground
-- 9 January 2014
Good. God. That is fucking haunting.
So much respect for Chelsea...
Seriously....
this is Chelsea Wolfe teaching the world what real music is.
I saw her live a couple weeks ago. She still keeps this electronic sound even outside a studio setting. I was beyond impressed.
Her voice and words haunt me like no other singer has in quite some time.
crushing
I know this song is about the suicide of a foxconn worker who loved poetry and couldnt escape the life, but this is exactly how I feel about the world. Dead on. This song is what is in my heart. I love her...been listening to her for years now ever since Advice and Vices came out and Tall bodies...shes always been a favorite of mine. In my top 5 for sure
It get better and better the more I hear it
i feel like this is the chelseawolfest song she's released so far
What a legendary Masterpiece this song is. Outstanding!
I never hear something like this before. These days are perfect to hear this stuff.
This is so heavy on my heart, i almost cried.
Dark, twisted and lovely. I can't wait until the album is physically in my hands.
If only more of her music was like this
I love you so much Chelsea Wolfe.
That intro gave me chills down my spine like I've never experienced before. Tuned to fucking perfection.
Reminds me a little of the second track on grouper - ruins from the way she delivers alot of her vocals all over this track.. Absolutely love it
How I'm just listening to her is beyond me. This song is perfect, she's perfect! The beginning sounded very influenced by black metal, I also hear that in some of her other songs as well and saw somewhere that she did a cover of one of burzum songs. Very unique sound she has so happy I found her.
I agree! Have a nice day, stranger.
*Doom metal.
^ ding ding ding!
Doom metal.
better than i even expected
saw gorbirger, instant fan, thank the gods there's comedian willing to play actual music on his comedy central show.
Totally Song of the day, 290415. Oh! Merci Merci SH
Beautifully foreboding.
killer track
This album has changed my life. Thanks be to God for such beautiful music.
This thing totally hit me, never heard of Chelsea Wolfe before. So damn amazing, dark and beautiful
This is insanely good! She's on a different level than most
Awesome song, the soundtrack brings so much life to the show.
Chelsea Wolfe is my new favourite musician to listen to. I just bought part of her album Abyss on iTunes...the reason being that I had already spent much of my money buying a full album by TV On The Radio from iTunes. Her songs are really good. They capture my sombre angst as a twenty-something man teetering on the edge of loneliness. When I do get another gift card, I'll be sure to complete the album collection by buying the remaining songs I didn't get to buy on iTunes.
abyss bundle ordered! I now wait patiently for August 7th and hopefully a UK tour
I love this and all her music! Pleasant surprise that John Congleton is involved on her album! That guy is a genius!!!
Super morceau ! Merci Chelsea ! Je n'écoutais plus de musique jusqu'à ce que je te découvre et ça va peut-être m'aider à me relever...
@CHELSEAxWOLFE Pour ma part, depuis toujours ! Quand on a un esprit torturé....En plus ce morceau est particulièrement triste... un peu comme la période en fait !
Dark and perfect.
I love this song.
Well damn, I just bought tickets to her show before listening to her new songs.
[Anticipation Intensifies]
Dude, the intro is heavy as Crowbar, that's an accomplishment!
Right through the heart, this song.. such a great album too
fucking crushing. chelsea's best album yet. and I'm in love
Look forward to the album. One of my favorite artists. :)
I've never wanted summer to go by fast but august 7th is very far away... i need an abyss to crawl into ; D
Simply beautiful
She just keeps on getting better with every release. I'm excited for the new album. Can't wait to hear the rest of it,
I love this. Very excited about Abyss.
Lyrics
A dead sun, a pale glow
Upon the walls I feign to know
We bear no fruit, no flowers, no life
And we get sick but never die
Become an echo
Resounding "let go"
My heart is a tomb
My heart is an empty room
I've given it away
I never want to see it again
I go to him in paths of dreams
In bed awake with shadow beings
They crawl inside and wait with me
The creatures here become machines
Walk with me to a place of trust
Death will no longer silence us
My heart is a tomb
My heart is an empty room
I've given it away
I never want to see it again
And all your words could save me
But keep your love away from me
In all the worlds decaying
Is there place that's safe for us?
My heart is a tomb
My heart is an empty room
I've given it away
I've swallowed the iron moon
Moon, moon
Best mixes ever
This is incredible. I can't wait.
Good god damn this is one of the best albums I've heard in ages. It's like Neurosis + Jarboe after too much My Bloody Valentine, but scratch that, it was just in one of St. Vincent's dreams.
I still love Jarboe’s singing on the Swans albums. Amazing stuff.
Makes you think about beauty. About how, you only have so much time. And, you see all the death...The destruction...and you embrace it. Semper Fi.
Soothing sounds.
When Ezra screams through the bridge IN KEY.
Is it just me, or is Chelsea Wolfe's catalogue/body of work/ouvre;) like idk wtf unbelievably almost flawless? I'm sure she would beg to differ but Good Goddamn she is amazing. I've yet to hear anything she's done that hasn't blown me bloody head off. Yes dangerously high Xpectations but geez. I'll shut up now. Long May She Reign
Best singl of the year. Not an exaderation
Brett Jolly so far atleast
A dead sun, a pale glow. Upon the walls I feign to know. We bear no fruit, no flowers, no life. And we get sick but never die. Become an echo resounding "let go". My heart is a tomb. My heart is an empty room. I've given it away. I never want to see it again. I go to him in paths of dreams. In bed awake with shadow beings. They crawl inside and wait with me. The creatures here become machines. Walk with me to a place of trust. Death will no longer silence us. My heart is a tomb. My heart is an empty room. I've given it away. I never want to see it again. And all your words could save me. But keep your love away from me. In all the world's decaying is there a place that's safe for us? My heart is a tomb. My heart is an empty room. I've given it away. I swallowed the iron moon. Moon, moon.
Holy shit
Amazing... Just amazing...
God damn son, 5 minutes of cold goosebumps running through my entire spine to the top of my cranium, this is intense. /repeat
I love this chick 🖤
Stunned.
So good.
Saw Chelsea last night. She was amazing as always, shame she didn't play this song live, but still amazing nonetheless.
Album is a masterpiece
All Chelsea Wolfe's stuff is so hauntingly beautiful. I am so glad Stephanie Opal Weinstein turned me on to her music some years earlier. This was the first album of her's i have ever heard & it remains my favorite
True dank. I synched this up with a Metal Gear Solid trailer and I was putting so hard.
Love these darker female artists. Chelsea Wolfe and Torres could definitely be in my top 5 albums come the end of the year.
This album should be the soundtrack to Penny Dreadful! Love it!!
Should have been the series should have lasted longer
@@thomasstites5781 But there's going to be a new season, except it won't have the same cast as the previous ones.
damn ! first time ive heard chelsea,,i love what im hearing preordering the new cd now!
Legendary shit right here folks
increase electronics, pull loops through my ear skin, drag bodies through doom, give us wings of angelic voice
So good 😍😍
impressed and excited
IT'S YOU! AGAIN!!!
+Jovontae Pride we're the same person pre much
+Krishtie Mofazzal tru
R.I.P. Xu Lizhi
Wow! You've come a long way from True Love!
My only regret in life in missing her concert.
It reminds me of Solstice - Only the Strong so much.
THIS IS DOOM METAL
HEAVY AS SHIT
Yeah, it does sound like that, that's probably why I like it so much.
Lmfao listen to iron moon by Fit For An Autopsy...
@@tuksc no
MOTE IT BE
coming September 29, 2015 to Neumos Seattle WA
wow:)gotta love her!!!
I just recently discovered this brilliant and beautiful artist. This music just sings to my soul in a way most of the world probably wouldn't quite understand. This song is absolutely beautiful and so fucking heavy.
Also, wouldn't it be fucking amazing to hear/see a collaboration between Chelsea Wolfe and Rasputina? I don't know. Think about it. I think it would be fucking beautiful.
HOLY SHIT - ANSELMO BROUGHT ME HERE - DAMN!!!!!!!
Dark and heavy.
"Walk with me to a place of trust/Death will no longer silence us"
is like NIN with a A Perfect Circle.
I'm really holding myself from pre-ordering ALL the new merch. and it's so painful waiting for the whole album to get released
This shit is fucking insane, I LOVE IT
If Type O Negative and Portishead had a baby it would sound like Chelsea Wolfe.
🤔 Didn't think of it, I can see how that could be thought of though.
I hear Portishead, Poe, Mazzy starr, garbage, nin
🤣🤣🤣 no, she does not.
STOP.COMPARING.CHELSEAWOLFE. TO OTHER ARTISTS. SHE IS TOO UNIQUE FOR THAT.
@@jenniferdeen3527 fck yes when I listen to Chelsea Wolfe i hear Chelsea Wolfe. Sommany different styles
this new album crushes. Just saw her live this week, awesome performance! The opening to this song sounds a lot like the HAUNTED, "Arrow". Just sayin.
Blew me away.
Este som me faz sentir como se meu coração tivesse um coração dentro dele, e esse coração dentro do meu coração bate num ritmo lentamente insano. ❤