Suruhmyni (Dirge)

2 days ago by @kembole

Liner Notes

#singersongwriter #guitar #athmospheric
Lyrics by Wendi Kivistö.

I wanted to make something raw, something not calculated nor perfect. Not on beat, not in tune, not in perfect time, not flowing. Just something that happens. I went towards a two guitar composition before I remembered that I screenshotted a poem on Instagram this week. Luckily I asked permission to use it right away since the poem resonated with me. Thanks Wendi for making this and letting me use it.

Lyrics

Kaskelotti kaunokainen
Tuudita mut lauleloillas
Pohjan muodot, karut luodot

Suomupyrstö säihkyväinen
Näyta mulle piiloriuttas
Norjan vuonot, ahvenruohot

Taskurapu terävainen
Kutsu minut kotikoloos,
Oudot ruodot, kuplavuokot

Siipisimppu siroluinen
Kuiski mulle näkemästäs
Meriruo'ot, öljyvuodot

Merisulka liehuvainen
Hyräile meil suruhymnis
Lauttavuorot, pikatuotot

Kilpikonna romuluinen
Laskeudutaan vesihautaas
Ihmisluonnot, raatokuorot

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A poetic translation:
Cachalot, Fair and Noble
Sing me softly through the currents,
Show me depths and jagged shorelines.

Silver tail, aglow and gleaming,
Guide me where the shadows whisper
Norwegian fjords, swaying seagrass.

Call me homeward, cunning crab,
To your caverns, dark and hidden,
Drifting bones and ghostly tendrils.

Scorched-red lionfish, hush secrets
Of the waters, dim and dying
Blackened tides and withering reedbeds.

Feathered sea plume, hum your sorrow,
Ferries fleeting, fortunes racing.
Burdened turtle, bent and battered,
Sink with me to deeper silence—
Human wreckage, choirs of corpses.

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