Beautiful tribute to a beautiful dead creature 🕊️

Surface Envy

"Bassem Sabry" appears on of Montreal's album, Aureate Gloom, released 3/3/2015.

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of Montreal - Bassem Sabry

by Jeni and Lotti Sidwell

lyrics:

i never knew you when you were here
but the photos and stories make it pretty clear
a wonderful creature who lived down under
this cultural icon, a striped wonder

now you’ve been gone these ninety years
oh our wounded hearts and flowing tears!
but regret can’t quite fill the hole
left from our favorite marsupial

thylacine oh thylacine
you’re the most beautiful thing i’ve never seen
you once thrived but now you’re gone
and there’s nothing to do but sing this song

tragically killed as you had been
how cruelly the world continued to spin
the home you left now rearranged
maybe for the worse or maybe just changed

dies irae dies illa
solvet saeclum in favilla
lacrimosa dies illa
qua resurget ex favilla

thylacine oh thylacine
you’re the most beautiful thing i’ve never seen
we know it’s unfair and sad and twisted
that nothing but us remember you existed

i’m sorry that we were too late
to save you from your terrible fate
we’ll cry and scream and gnash our jaws
mostly wishing we weren’t the cause

they're trying to raise you from your grave
as though you're not too dead to save
so many more are fading away
but if we pull this off then that's okay

and thylacine oh thylacine
we still haven’t learned a thing
looking behind and not ahead
only caring after things are dead

thylacine my thylacine
you’re the most beautiful thing i’ve never seen
but earth’s changed too much i fear
so i’ll just be glad that you were here

i’ll just be glad that you were here <3

Special thanks to Owen Sidwell and Boyd Edwards

Thylacine Requiem

Taken from the brand new STRIKE GOLD EP (2016) 
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Squeeze fire alive
breathe life into your warm embers
Before your body 
Gets returned to the sender

I strike gold
Every time I look in your eyes





1. Strike Gold

"Bring My Baby Back" by Dr. Dog from the album 'The Psychedelic Swamp,' available February 5 (World Excl. UK) and April 15 (UK)
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The Psychedelic Swamp

Bring My Baby Back

Dr. Dog - Bring My Baby Back

“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.” 
   -Alan Ginsberg

From the STRIKE GOLD EP (2016)
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4. Howl At The Moon (+ Jenn Blosil)

From the album When This Kiss Is Over It Will Start Again

Like Winter

my music junk drawer for tracks about science, my friends, and whatever I want
harpist producer etc, folky jazzy funky lo fi etc
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Thylacine Requiem

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