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A Dirge For Her

from Intermission by Flat Battery

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This was originally made in late 2007, just before work started on Crucibles of Ideology.

The lyrical content and title are based off of a poem by Edgar Allen Poe, entitled Lenore. You can find the poem in its entirety here:

www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/lenore

There's been some confusion in the past as to whether I'd written this song about someone in my personal life. I hadn't, but have still met more than a few people who could've benefitted from the message found herein.

The title of this track comes from the below line in the poem:

"A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young."

In the poem and after absorbing the exquisitely described picture of the situation, I tended to agree with Poe's perspective about Lenore and her surrounding 'mourners'. She sounded like a nice enough lady, with a strong will and perhaps a touch of difficulty in social situations as a result. It also seemed as though her privilege had gathered not the nicest folk about her - people who tended to be as self-absorbed as she did.

I speculated quite a profound amount over Lenore's situation in life, given reflections on my own experiences with people I've known. I even did some research into Poe's possible motivations for the poem. I imagined how her relationship with her seemingly overly idealistic fiancé and somewhat parasitic sounding peers must've strained on her. I admit I employed a fair degree of poetic license in supposing how Lenore must have felt.

After obsessing over it for some time, reading the poem over and over again, I was filled with an intense wish to have been able to speak with Lenore before her health declined, to say what I thought of her situation, and to reassure her (even though it's unlikely that these people actually existed).

A teensy bit of my hobby with foley and field recordings can be heard in this track: I'd blended the sound of an old film projector into the background to lend a more antiquated feeling to everything, much like how the poem feels to read nowadays.

lyrics

You speak
Of yesterday as
Sad and lonely and
Without a cure

You're sure
That this song is
Not worth singing
Why am I
Hypnotised by you?

Kiss your lips
And watch the whole world
Standing still

You are broken but
Time will heal your wounds my dear
Blue with eyes wide shut, but
Hopefully in time you'll see me

Like porcelain you've been worn down
Until it's not that hard to break you now
You frown, but
Dry your tears afore you drown

So this song's for you, here's hoping
That we're going to see this through

You are broken but
Time will heal your wounds my dear
Blue with eyes wide shut, but
Hopefully in time you'll see me

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from Intermission, released June 8, 2009

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Flat Battery London, UK

London-based one-man band originally started in Johannesburg, South Africa. Recording music since 2005, many genres and styles have been explored.

Liam Wiser, the person behind this project, also creates electronic music under the name Rectifier: rectifire.bandcamp.com
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