SONG OF DEVASTATION – NUMBER 33

SONG OF DEVASTATION – NUMBER 33My husband received this lovely letter from someone at The Red Hand Files (we’ve lost the person’s name!). Just to say, Bill Callahan is a much loved artist in our home, as he takes our hand and leads us through his dreamscapes. I am assuming the Song of Devastation is ‘One Fine Morning’ from the album, Apocalypse. This song is, of course, Bill’s masterpiece. Thank you for sending it in. Love Susie. x


Could you please share this Song of Devastation with Susie? Bill Callahan’s ‘Apocalypse’ is steeped in ethereal, haunting and darkly hopeful and captivating landscape. I want to ride this range, sensing my horse’s hooves would never touch dust or soil.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NphJbinncQ


One Fine Morning


One fine morning

I'm going to ride out

One fine morning

I'm going to ride out

Just me and the skeleton crew

We're gonna ride out in a country kind of silence

We're gonna ride out in a country silence

Yeah, one fine morning

Yeah, it's all coming back to me now

My apocalypse

My apocalypse

The curtain rose and burned in the morning sun

The curtain rose and burned in the morning sun

And the mountains

And the mountains bowed down

In the morning sun

Like a ballet of the heart

And the mountains bowed down like a ballet

In the morning sun

And the baby and we all lay in state

And the baby and we all lay in state

And I said "Hey, no more drovering"

I say "Hey, no more drovering"

When the earth turns cold

And the earth turns black

Will I feel you riding on my back?

When the earth turns cold

And the earth turns black

Will I feel you riding on my back?

And for I am a part of the road

Yeah, I am a part of the road

The hardest part

The hardest part

My apocalypse

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Songwriter – Bill Callahan