Sinead O'Brien - GIRLKIND (Official Video)

Taken from Sinead O’Brien’s debut album ‘Time Bend and Break The Bower’ out now on Chess Club Records. Pre-order now: https://sinead-obrien.ffm.to/timebend... Sinead O'Brien - GIRLKIND, out now: https://sinead-obrien.ffm.to/girlkind   / _sineadobrien     / _sineadobrien_     / sineadobrienpoetry   https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Nron... Music written by Sinead O’Brien, Julian Hanson & Oscar Robertson Produced by Dan Carey Engineered by Alexis Smith Mixed by Dan Carey Mastered by Kevin Tuffy Label: Chess Club Credits: Director: Saskia Dixie Executive Producer: Thomas Viney Producer: Liam Wallace-Cook Director of Photography: Peter Bishop Set: Anna Howard and Ben Chaplin Costume: Nic Farnan and Ben Chaplin Gaffer: John Letsinger Spark: Fredrik Meister 1st AC: Mike Linforth 2nd AC: James Tilyard Runner: Sophie Edge Editor: Saskia Dixie Colourist: John O'Riordan Supporting Artists: Max Makoski Anton Gottlob Diego Fernández Anna Pesquidous Tara Sadeghi Molly Crisp Joseph Leam With special thanks to Ruth Newbery-Payton Nell Maude Cecile Tulkens MCX films and Pundersons Gardens Record Label: Chess Club Records Follow Sinead O'Brien: Instagram: https://bit.ly/2UWACO2 Facebook: https://bit.ly/2WZSqKM Twitter: https://bit.ly/2URRR39 Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2JtqV4r GIRLKIND LYRICS: Eternity is not never-ending, ever-lasting It is in the stillness In walls, fences, liminal spaces Remember when the virgin rock and the statues come to stop Stay under - go beneath Til sun will wet the frost And fog make fogginess for us Muddy the visions for our innocence Til the tide approach To clean the beach for new feet to print the sand And walk amongst the rock Long to test the traps Would little ankles snap Dialogues still cease to stop Come neon lights and burn the fog When the virgin rock The statues come to stop Eternity be Of an evening overseen On a moment in between or underwhelming I have misunderstood The ever-lasting experience Of Girlkind and Humanhood You have seen nothing yet Eternity is so much less than I had thought A long withstanding single moment An unacknowledged act A leg caught on the trap And would the ankle snap To free the snare from the fawn Or the thought from the clock Not a profound concept More likely to be found in the falling down of hair The movement slow or fast through thickened air That we may see true the shapes And real the time the action takes For great movements to be made Longing for rest against the watch We wait until the minute passes And surely it does as it always has done But this does not quieten our widening eyes Our broadening smiles Nor put an end to our quest To unearth truth and bury lies Nor dampen the life inside of our heads Nor the need for the stopping of the passing of the moments Do not be afraid of silent places Do not wait for eternal gates to open Patience is outdated here The secrets of the ages tell all else But you have seen nothing yet You have seen nothing yet It may be time soon to celebrate Our strandedness in the liminal space Put a word to each new object here And make a face to end all faces A face to face the questioning And a smile for the coming spring If spring is here what spring was before And a step into a new direction A look to stop the suffering Return the bullet to its owner Place the sword back in the stone It may be soon but may be quite long I cannot tell you All the signs I see point wrong We have seen nothing yet We have not seen anything yet In Humankind and in Girlhood.