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1st Christmas offering. A cover of a classic Barclay James Harvest track... Love the band, not just coz tha' from my Home Town, but they made some awesome music... and still going \m/

Hymn

Born in the shadow of eighteen-sixty-nine
Daughter of Paris, sent down the line
To the rubber palaces, gold in the trees
Belém do Pará, where the river breathes
White as the moon on the Teatro stage
Soprano of fire in a velvet cage
They whispered her name like a prayer in the heat
Camille Monfort walking on bare, silent feet

Cigarette smoke in the tropic air
Diamonds and sin in her raven hair
Men left her mansion pale as the dawn
Something inside them forever gone

Camille, Camille, the night is your crown
Bathing in champagne while the city drowns
They buried you once under mango and stone
But the grave was empty and the girl was gone
Camille, Camille, do you still walk the rain?
Vampire of the Amazon, forever unchained

They say you danced naked beneath the full moon
Heard the dead singing their lonesome tune
Lovers grew weaker with every kiss
Something unholy in that crimson bliss
The wives of the barons cursed your name
While you laughed in the thunder, wild and untamed
A car in the jungle, a ghost at the wheel
No one could touch what they couldn’t kill

1896, the cholera came
They wrote you a death in the parish flame
Marble Madonna with eyes made of night
But the coffin was light, far too light
Some swear in Europe you still draw breath
Beauty untouched by the mercy of death

Camille, Camille, the night is your crown
A hundred and fifty years underground
Or up from the river when the moon is low
With hunger eternal and skin like snow
Camille, Camille, they still speak your name
Vampire of the Amazon
Forever the same

If you hear opera on the humid breeze
Run, darling, run
It’s Camille Monfort
And she never leaves

Just me

Camille

audio effects; pitch shift, fade, phone line effect, volume
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original song; the other side - ruelle

i watch superman fly away (skip to sec 6)

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