Title: If I Die Young Source:
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I really, really like the cinematography of this video. It just works for me artistically. The song is pretty good too.
Yes, melancholy is a good word for it. At the same time, it's almost a beautiful view of a short life. Music like this seems rare today. The lyrics really speak to me.
"The sharp knife of a short life, well I’ve had, just enough time"
"If I die young, bury me in satin Lay me down on a, bed of roses Sink me in the river, at dawn Send me away with the words of a love song"
"A penny for my thoughts, oh no, I’ll sell them for a dollar They're worth so much more after I’m a goner And maybe then you’ll hear the words I been singin’ Funny when your dead how people start listenin’"
I liked the song very much, enough to do some research on the group. They look like teenagers but acording to the info I found, if it is correct, she is in her mid 20's. I thought she might be somewhere around 18 at the most.
At the end of the clip the book it shows is open to a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson called The Lady of Shalott. If you are interested here's a link to the poem:
Actually I'm re-reading the Canterbury Tales now, in the original middle English. Just finished The Knights Tale. For followers of the thread, Shakespeare wrote in early Modern English. Chaucer wrote in middle English (quite germanic) and Aelfred the Great and others in Old English (almost pure Germanic as in most couldn't understand it, we were then theodesic, aka "the people" who spoke in a tongue understandable by those in Germany, Norway, Sweden and Denmark), well he was quite unintelligible.
Actually I'm re-reading the Canterbury Tales now, in the original middle English. Just finished The Knights Tale. For followers of the thread, Shakespeare wrote in early Modern English. Chaucer wrote in middle English (quite germanic)
English changes quickly. Some of the changes have been good but others haven't.
True. The adaptability is good, but we've absorbed way too much of the Roman tongue, IMO. We need to cleave it from ourselves, if you get my understanding. :0
The original Anglo-Saxons were not unlike the Celts, and they were very independent, all armed, and all considered themselves free (the defining trait of a free man from a slave was the right to be armed).
We've lost a lot, and gained some. The lady in the video is beautiful, in body and soul. Makes me wish I was 20 again.