Andries Bezuidenhout - Call of the Red-Winged Starling

Track from South African musician, poet, and visual artist Andries Bezuidenhout's album "No place for time here" (released on 5 July 2024). An imagined conversation with a starling about belonging to and escaping from time and space. Footage for the video filmed at Westbrook Farm near Graaff-Reinet in the Karoo. The video uses time-lapse imagery to speed up and slow down the movements of people, light, and clouds. An Afrikaans version of the song is also available.
Words and music: Andries Bezuidenhout
Recorded and mixed by Andries Bezuidenhout
Mastered by Willem Möller
CALL OF THE RED-WINGED STARLING
If the sun could momentarily
Keep the morning light at bay
Then dreams might eventually
Spirit me away
But alarm clocks are not interested
In the content of dreams
An seconds keep on marching
To a military beat
If you land somewhere
Do you nest or do you flee
How did we end up, oh red-winged starling
In this troubled century
And if you land somewhere
Do you nest or do you flee
How did we end up, oh red-winged starling
In this troubled century
Heard you early in the morning mist
Before you settled on the roof
At first your call is tentative
And then becomes incessant.
My generation fears sentiment
Our hearts beat cold cement
Is this the reason for my projection
About a starlings wisdom and protection
If you land somewhere
Do you nest or do you flee
How did we end up, oh red-winged starling
In this troubled century
And if you land somewhere
Do you nest or do you flee
How did we end up, oh red-winged starling
In this troubled century
I know Central Park and Voldelpark
And Zanzibar's old night market
I wonder if you'd flourish there
How do starlings choose their lairs?
Fewer lights where I am now
So the stars are brighter and somehow
Please remind me of this tomorrow
When your beak starts pecking at my window
If you land somewhere
Do you nest or do you flee
How did we end up, oh red-winged starling
In this troubled century
And if you land somewhere
Do you nest or do you flee
How did we end up, oh red-winged starling
In this troubled century
© Andries Bezuidenhout

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Love it, love it, love it!!!!!

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Mal daaroor! Dis nou 'n nuwe rigting-om dit ook in Engels aan te bied vir jou Engels sprekende kollegas en vriende. Die kamera-tegnieke, - skakerings, -bewegings en beelde fassineer my.