We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Isokon Flats & KC - North​-​West Passage

from KCollab​.​26 by Ken Clinger & Friends

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $0.49 USD

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

lyrics

North-West Passage (Isokon Flats & KC)
lyrics (PD) Robert Louis Stevenson

(Good-night)
When the bright lamp is carried in,
The sunless hours again begin;
O'er all without, in field and lane,
The haunted night returns again.

Now we behold the embers flee
About the firelit hearth; and see
Our faces painted as we pass,
Like pictures, on the window glass.

Must we to bed indeed? Well then,
Let us arise and go like men,
And face with an undaunted tread
The long black passage up to bed.

Farewell, O brother, sister, sire!
O pleasant party round the fire!
The songs you sing, the tales you tell,
Till far to-morrow, fare you well!

(Shadow March)
All around the house is the jet-black night;
It stares through the window-pane;
It crawls in the corners, hiding from the light,
And it moves with the moving flame.

Now my heart goes beating like a drum,
With the breath of the phantoms in my hair;
And all around the candle and the crooked shadows come,
And go marching along the stair.

The shadow of the balusters, the shadow of the lamp,
The shadow of the child that goes to bed--
All the wicked shadows coming tramp, tramp, tramp,
With the black night overhead.

(In Port)
Last, to the chamber where I lie
My fearful footsteps patter nigh,
And come out from the cold and gloom
Into my warm and cheerful room.

There, safe arrived, we turn about
To keep the coming shadows out,
And close the happy door at last
On all the perils that we past.

Then, when mother goes by to bed,
She shall come in with tip-toe tread,
And see me lying warm and fast
And in the land of Nod at last.

credits

from KCollab​.​26, released July 4, 2010
Isokon Flats: original music
Robert Louis Stevenson: lyrics
Ken Clinger: additional music & vocals
©(P)2010 Isokon Flats & Ken Clinger

license

tags

about

Ken Clinger image

Ken Clinger Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

contact / help

Contact Ken Clinger

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like North-West Passage, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featuring Riley Pinkerton (aka The Rat Queen) from the theatrical NYC rockers, Castle Rat.
listen now