Wayward Lad
So you said, that burnished bitter day Among the almonds their blossom Fine reflected in the bossom Of the desicated river Its momentum and its path so lost Below a Spanish sun "There was a wayward lad Stepped out one dawning day The cold and crystal ground to be his bed" But the sky was not to be his awning Or his mantle For there among the sainted trees Near Santander he felt he loved her more dear Than his own young and tortured soul Indeed the gorgeous blossom fell upon her bossom As clumsy love they made in earnest but in juvenillia Hot and rugged like the soil but sparse Except the relic trees and rich aroma The sound the Spanish bells That toil among the hills Slow and languid as the peasants that they called Suggested this would be his last love And how he would defy the anger and repression That glided like a cloud oer the picas And the herbal wilderness of sage and snakes For snakes slid upon the villas And through the stone cast lintels As to the hills with guns the rebels took And once captured with those 'bon amigos' Hands like clouds aloft Their slow sure steps On fractured rock the fragrant path of goats to town To be exampled So they were duly executed Close by the cemetary wall But unlike the ritual way of death They were thrown to an unmarked pit, all creased One upon the other And Disappeared Maybe forgotten dust and bone and crystal Yet a knot of yearning and remembered love Cried somewhere in the hills among the prefumed sage The tears of never knowing Though the sun cared not But how it pained the wretched hollows neath the skies and future glories of Cantabria
lines 7 8 and 9 roughly to Alt-J" song 3WW
Alex Polizzi Does Spain" last of Spain series ??
picas refers to the picas d'euopa high mountains that run along the northern coast though from recollection theyre more the pyrenian end and full of sage and herbs and snakes, wild pigs, vultures, swallowtails, and eagles
Wayward Lad appears courtesy of Mike Burr" ,