Buffy Sainte-Marie

Artist: Buffy Sainte-Marie

Song: Poppies (for Mr Allerton)

Album: Illuminations

...I tippy-toe across your dream each night

so as not to wake you...

Asleep in your summer,

a garland of flowers

yellow and white around your waist.

While I walk these paths of ice

ice my breasts and strings of ice my hair.

My hands two hooks of steel.

Ice nose, snow eyes

frozen open mouth.

Flakes of snow your bridal veil

I come down the soft white path

Garlands of poppies

spilling from my heart.

Comments

10 years ago

R. Trafford

CunninLynguists "So As Not To Wake You" ?

10 years ago

Thomas Broadbent

Fantastic song! Gothic perfection. Creepy ,dreamy....timeless

11 years ago

djsarcastic

on the LP the song kind of continues into the first song on the next side "God is Alive, Magic is Afoot" (its on youtube) check that out

11 years ago

Passi0nata

I've already uploaded it. ;) I hope you enjoy it!

11 years ago

Scitzowicz

Please please could your repost the whole of this track in its entirety

11 years ago

OldOldBukowski

Just discovered this singer. As a big fan of Portishead, I have to say that the entire album THIRD seems based on this haunting track.

12 years ago

akira543

Otherworldly and totally amazing... I can get lost in this...

12 years ago

Nathan Bonifacio

@shaftsbury94 even better in 4.0 surround!!! - The first quadrophonic vocal album ever.

12 years ago

Chris Conway

lovely track - shame it cuts off at the end...

12 years ago

Rich Bowen

@hairtube 1968 or 69

13 years ago

hairtube

What year was this album released?

13 years ago

shaftsbury94

love it people. great on headphones.

13 years ago

irontoad30

Amber Asylum did a fantastic cover of this fantastic song, IMO definitely worth checking out...

13 years ago

Grawp55

So many people owe her for her brilliant experiments on this album. It was mind blowing at the time....and still is.

14 years ago

ethan1336

hahaha so many of us checked this out from efukt, i thought i was weird for doing it but it was so creepy i had to google it

14 years ago

TheOnlineCommunity

Same here...LMAO

14 years ago

Braxton McCammond

thats where I heard this too! LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

14 years ago

Skeeter NYC

Buffy did alot of cool experimentation with electronic sounds on 'Illuminations'. This track reminds me of some of Kate Bush, Lisa Gerrard & Bat For Lashes' stuff. Heads up to Buffy fans: Buffy's new album, 'Running For The Drum', is out in the states in August with a subsequent tour.

14 years ago

Michael Corvin

its a visual music enhancer

15 years ago

misstery man

Euphoric, so far ahead of its time is this song. I heard it when I was a teen in the 70s. Buffy Sainte-Marie made life bearable in small town who, as Joan Baez wrote, had ways of being "even smaller yet." Ms. Sainte-Marie, you are "Up Where You Belong." Thank you for everything--thirty years later.