This will probably be my last post for a while. For at least a couple weeks while I'm on maternity leave. Today is Baby Brother's birthday. As such, I've decided to share one of his favorite songs to listen to on the Belly Buds. I expect he'll be one of those kids who loves Halloween, judging by his music taste and astrological placements (that Mercury in Scorpio and very close to being a Scorpio Rising....depends if things happen on time). I have a feeling he and his brother are going to be as different as Night and Day. Luckily, I like to think I'm a mixture of both so it'll be fun.
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Oh, let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the wedding now, dance me on and on
Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long
We're both of us beneath our love, we're both of us above
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
I love The Civil Wars. Every one of their songs is imbued with that Southern Gothic spookiness I adore so much. Even the love songs. Especially the love songs. This particular one showed up in a listening session that included The Decemberists and The Jane Austen Argument. I feel it fits someone with a mixture of Libra and Scorpio placements. This kid is going to be quite the character. It's a cover of a Leonard Cohen song (another favorite), which The Civil Wars turned into a duet. I love duets and, in this interpretation, it works very well. They cut it short, though, ending it before the last two verses. Since it's so short, I included all the lyrics this in this post. Enjoy!
"Dance Me to the End of Love" Video
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