The Last Illumination (The Ghost of Arthur Rimbaud)

from ANCIENT CHAINS by JOHN TERLAZZO & VOICES IN THE HALL

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THE LAST ILLUMINATION (The Ghost of Arthur Rimbaud)
The coronets are raised, echo on the Pantheon walls / The strange world is praised in the clarion call / The Queen ascends her throne as you reach for the Unknown / And all the stars dissolve on your tongue / Who stole this Heart? Who tore it from its home? / There in the Shadows of the Last Illumination / Stands the Ghost of Arthur Rimbaud / The women with their garlands sing Priez Pour Lui / Mourning from Charleville to Marseilles / He longed to be free, to be one with the Sea / But in Cours d’ Orleans they forged his chains / The dancers astound us, blossoms in their hair / Delirium surrounds us, the Abyssinian air / The broken are endowed with will, the vile are made fair / The empty of heart are filled and the thieves offer their share / My father & mother were holy & wild / They slept beside the fire & on the ground they bore this child / I was nursed on the Legends, the mandolin & horn / Never kneeled to nothing save the Inconceivable Form…

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from ANCIENT CHAINS, released December 7, 2020

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John Terlazzo & Voices in the Hall York, Pennsylvania

Voices In The Hall: Songwriter / Poet John Terlazzo on vocals, guitar, Indian harmonium, Kristina Machusick on vocals, flute, recorders & Paul Wegmann on vocals, lead guitars. Together
they have become one moving, breathing creature, offering up a rich array of "Modern Surrealist Gypsy Folk", & described as "Marc Chagall gone aural" and "Leonard Cohen meets Rumi".
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