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"Death's Love Song" by Reina del Cid
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What if death wrote you a love a song?
This tune was inspired by two of my favorite poems: Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death” and Dylan Thomas’s “Do not go gentle into that good night.” In Dickinson’s poem, she imagines Death as a chivalrous driver of a carriage stopping to pick her up. That inspired me to write this song from the perspective of Death if it were a suitor—someone who has been in love with you your your whole life and has been waiting to take you away.
Special thanks to Toni Lindgren for lending her upright bass skills to this little demo track. She was in a remote location without access to video, so we just have her audio for this. I added some shaker and keys as well. We’ll eventually record this song properly in a studio and put it on an album one day, but I wanted to share it with you like this first. Lyrics are below!
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Lyrics to "Death's Love Song":
Dear, it’s time we met
yes it’s true, you don’t know me yet
but dust to dust
you’ll learn to trust
that in the end, there is only us
Don’t believe what they say of me
the poets’ slander and heresy
my face is cruel but my love is true
and I won’t rest till I have you
Through every season of your life
I watched you hold your lovers tight
and how I burned just to wait my turn
to take your hand and lead you off this earth
Oh my sweet thing, fear not
you just board my ship and we’ll take off
to fare the darkest sea, the gentlest night
Take that body and give it up
you just step inside my chariot
Oh, you’ve never had a lover quite like me
so let’s ride to eternity
Like the ones before you
you fear what’s in store for you
and so you’ll run under the golden sun
heading west till it’s all said and done
With every drag on your cigarette
do you feel how close I get?
Take your pills if you feel ill
they might break my hold
but they won’t break my will
Now you’re pale and short of breath
sit down with your spinning head
It’s almost time, I can see the signs
that soon you’ll forever be mine
Chorus
Let go of those weary bones
and just climb aboard my ferryboat
I will row us gently through the dying light
I will keep you company
as we drift toward immortality
Oh you never had a lover quite like me
so let’s ride to eternity
Elle & Toni