Death By Water (live from the inside of a Truck)

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Going for a stroll in Banff National Park we came accross a Grizzly and her cups. We quickly ran for shelter and moments later, the rain washed away our fears. We could finally deliver ourselves to the transfiguring waters of our imagined lovers.

"Death by Water" is the final song of our upcoming thematic album that tells of a personal voyage to find the Northway Passage. The title of the song is a reference to one section of T. S. Eliot's Waste Land as it dramatizes the idea of sublimating death by means of regeneration.

Dando un paseo por el parque nacional de Banff nos topamos con una madre grizzly y sus tazas. Tuvimos que correr rápidamente a buscar cobijo. Momentos después, la lluvia deshacía nuestros miedos. Nos podíamos así entregar a las cambiantes aguas de nuestros amantes imaginados.

"Death by Water" es la coda de nuestro álbum temático inspirado en una muy personal búsqueda del pasaje del Noroeste. El título de la canción es una referencia directa a una de las secciones que conforman La Tierra Baldía del poeta Norteamericano T. S. Eliot pues dramatiza la idea de la sublimación de la muerte a través de la regeneración.

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Death by water
Lyrics and Music ©Mantis with a Fork, 2014

The clutch of his hands has loosened up our ropes
As we forsake the famine of his kisses
Remember my loon as he was blind with rage
He dug a hole in the keel, the ship is sinking

Our florescent tongues will never break on the shore.
This is our truest escape, the whales tolling their call.

Hmmmmm

We forget the cry of gulls under the deep sea swell
A current under sea is picking all our bones as we rise and we fall
Into love.
Love.

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released June 26, 2014

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Mantis with a Fork Palma De Mallorca, Spain

Mantis with a Fork is a multilingual interdisciplinary project envisioned in 2013 by Canadian singer-songwriter Lisa Anderson and Spanish singer-songwriter Borja Aguilo. They are currently finishing a thematic electronic-folk album which recounts the story of a Mallorquinian man’s quest to find the North-West passage in the early 20th century. ... more

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