"Bessie, Did You Make It?" from the album The Path of the Clouds
Out now on Sacred Bones Records and Bella Union Records.
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Directed by Mitch Wells
Staring Kitty Pennings and Caroline Wells
Colored by Clayton Hunt
Animations by Marissa Nadler
Musical Credits:
Mixed by Seth Manchester, Machines with Magnets, Pawtucket, RI
Mastered by Heba Kadry, NYC
Players:
Song written by Marissa Nadler
Marissa Nadler, Milky Burgess, Jesse Chandler
The Lyrics:
"Bessie, Did You Make It?"
In 1928 Glen and Bessie met their fate
from Twin Falls down the Colorado
In a handmade canoe, what happened to these two
is up to who you ask but full of sorrow.
It took twenty six full days to find the heart of the maze,
deep in the canyon they were swallowed.
He dragged his new wife through his treacherous life
For cheap thrills he took their tomorrows
Did you make it, did you make it, did you make it on your own?
Or did you fake it, fake it, leave someone else’s bones?
They were last seen alive by Emery Kolb
who lived alone in the canyon.
He put ‘em up for the night, warmed ‘em up by the stove
saying “At least let me save your companion.”
The years flew by and Kolb passed on,
they found some bones in his boathouse.
A bullet in the skull from another dawn
under the piles of his photos.
Did you make it, did you make it, did you make it on your own?
Or did you fake it, fake it, leave someone else’s bones? Someone else bones?
"This boat looks like a coffin and the water is strong,
if you go, if you go, you are gone gone gone…
If you go you are gone, gone, gone.”
Fifty years later the tale turned to legend,
A woman claimed to be Bess for a second.
By the fire, she said without smiling,
“I’m Bessie, I killed him, I was simply surviving,”
“I’m Bessie, I killed him, I was simply surviving.”
3 окт 2024
