Das Wunschgab von Greville Tombs Der Tragödie erster Teil

The wonderful @tellthee has translated the latest from Greville and the Tombstones.

This is: Das Wunschgab von Greville Tombs Der Tragödie erster Teil

To read the original, here it is

Many, many thanks to @tellthee for digging a layer of heavy depth to this piece.

photo by @tellthee

The Wishing Tomb. Pt. 1

This is a track that is slightly more dense than what the pop kids a usually used to. Here there are few rhymes to be found. It even struggled to be named.

Greville and the Tombstones fans are still waiting for the pool-party hit anthem of the summer. But those who adore Greville and the Tombstones know that this track is as close as one is going to be.

In any case, if Greville and the Tombstones was sound-tracking your summer pool party, then it would be awesome.

And the pool would be filled by tears.

And there would be no petting allowed, but long doleful stares and silent prayers to be noticed by those you have special affections for in the deep end.

Anyway, this is the sound of Greville and the Tombstone's summer.


This is:

The Wishing Tomb. Pt. 1

Really could have done with anyone getting out of anything alive.

 

Watch dust motes trickle on a sun shard stream, all is in vain.

Consider the jewel of a breath, consider the paltry matter a bauble.

Screw the tap but know congealing blood tumult laps in the darkness.

Disturbed coil of cobalt night unwinds into the settling blonde wheat field.

Spirit, fragile as water film tension, gently heaves top the twilight lake.

Time leaves Fate softly suffering and bubbling in its wake.

The distress is warm. Warm on the body.

Fresh shine washes on the back. On the front. Pressing from above.

 

There is never any comfort in endings: Endings are snapped continues.

 

I thought this was a lacquered stop, but it is perfectly permeable despondence.

I thought this was the bottom, but it is a Mezzanine.

Thunder barrel clouds cut, lightning bolts lash on the scene.

The immenseness outside this chamber creaks but remains unseen.

Wretched is this monument to my muse of Tragedy, sculpted by familiar hands, ruined to stone.

Still is this tomb which weathers against all under an electrocute sky: place of my grief.

 

 

 

 

I am a priest of crows

My work, The Priest of Crows is something I am very fond of. And others are very fond of it too.

The Priest of Crows has become a character all of his own. Someone I am very fond of.

My dear friend @telltheee tweeted about the Priest of Crows. I was so fond of it I said I would love to have a t-shirt with the tweet printed.

Wonderfully and incredibly a package arrived from Germany and now I am proud owner of a Crow Priest T-shirt for summer praise. I wear it out and I feel like a missionary, for those I can't spiritually touch.

The Priest of Crows spoke and we shall be healed

Der Priester der Krähen

To paraphrase Star-Trek:
You've never read Greville and the Tombstones until you have read it in German.

The wonderful @tellthee, who I am lucky to call a friend, has translated into German my work The Priest of Crows









I truly believe the German language versions of my works add a special dimension to the meaning of them.

And of course, the translation means that German fans of the band can more easily enjoy Greville and the Tombstones.

I love that my words are translated here.

 

Artwork by Jeanie Laub

I am very lucky to know some amazing people through this blog. One of those is the talented artist Jeanie Laub, living in Edinburgh.

I've appreciated Jeanie's art for some time, attending her gallery exhibitions, and I was terribly nervous when we finally met this year. I barely uttered a word!

Jeanie has unveiled a work which incorporates my poetry (an excerpt from Seven Deadly Sorrows).

It was unexpected and I am utterly thrilled. I am incredibly touched and love the piece very much.

Although I cannot tell how much of the drawing was inspired by me, each of the beautiful elements in the artwork resonate in me. I feel that it captures something of me, a feeling both disorientating and wonderful.

I hope one day to be able to visit it when exhibited.

I hope Jeanie won't mind me sharing it here for admirers of the band.

Never in my life thought I would inspire art. I will be forever grateful to Jeanie that I have.

 

 

 

 

The Priest of Crows

This is:

The Priest of Crows

Won’t someone rid me

of this

black feathered smoke which

haunts around my bones,

Skulks on my gallows

I have only a little life, after all

Ribcage kirk congregation

Gather

Dead risen, gnashing teeth

Shimmering oyster shells,

Hymns a wail of woes

I want to peck out all the souls

I cannot peck out all the souls

I cannot taste my own.

I am a priest of crows

I call out “blood, your blood!”

To you

Cry out gutturally to you

Murder cold winds howl

Sermon driven low

I’ll set my wings wide on the sky

Wilfully

May my light reach thee:

My trembling words reach thee!

As grieving craws

I want to save all the souls

I cannot save all the souls

I cannot save my own

I want to heal all the souls

I cannot heal all the souls

Scratched is my own

I can no longer hear your prayers

I will no longer hear your prayers

I want to absolve all your sins.

My forgiveness cannot grow

Down a path you chose.

I am a priest of crows

Won’t someone take me

Off this

Gibbet beam, I care for it not.

I am no salvation here.

I am a priest of crows

I have only a little life, after all

Lusts and Grudges: Tell Thee mix

I am incredibly appreciative of friend of the band, @tellthee who has translated the latest Greville and the Tombstones hit, Lust and Grudges into German.

I am so grateful that @tellthee has taken the time to do this. And it is a perfect choice for her to make, like Romantic Masochist, to be written in German.

Lusts and Grudges has affected a lot of the fans and I know that this new version in translation will add to everything they feel about it.

I love this version. It is amazing.
It is Lusts and Grudges, covered and mixed and translated by the fabulous @tellthee.

Lusts and Grudges

This song came unexpectedly, but took some time to get to this state. This state where I am happy to show it.

I think that it is unusual in that it can be played by Greville and the Tombstones in two ways depending on how the vibes are: bouncy free-roaming or as an aging stomp. Who knows which is lusts and which grudges?

Of course it is unusual too, because there is not even one tune for it.

This apart, I'm pleased with it as I think it is definitely a full-on Greville and the Tombstones track.

I hope the fans and the adorers like it.

You are in my soul.



Lusts and grudges:

I hold lusts

As long as I hold grudges

No matter how deep below

They can be

Resurrected

So they burn through me

Soul for gasoline

I feel lusts

Same as I feel grudges

Fill my feeble condition

Spiteful

And essential

And they won’t die down

Soul for a dungeon

I’ve trapped them

I’ve buried them

I’ve painted them

I’ve caged them

I’ve ripped them

I’ve slit them

I’ve adored them

I’ve rendered them

I’ve carried them

I’ve used them

And I burn all your religious artefacts

Can’t cast out

Lusts and grudges

Keep me held under the gun

With Jesus,

I’m on fire

Lord parched from sermonising

Sole for clear water

I’m nothing but

Lusts and grudges

Beautiful and terrible to behold

I hold them

All to me

But none I hold the way

My soul holds you

I’ve loaded them

I’ve filed them

I’ve torn them

I’ve revolved them

I’ve explored them

I’ve taken them

I’ve washed them

I’ve stirred them

I’ve whipped them

I’ve shot them

And they burn right through my photographs

And I’m nothing but lusts and grudges

They are beautiful and terrible to behold

I hold them

All tight to me

But there’s none I hold the way

My soul holds onto the image of you

Death of a personality cult leader

Some of Greville and the Tombstones works are simple alt-gothic romances, some trying to solidify alt-gothic fears into something understandable. Most are personal favourites of the band.

This one? This one, I'm not sure. I think this one will be benefiting from a writer's alt-gothic commentary.

But it is certainly a Greville and the Tombstones song.

So I really hope you like it!











This is our new track. This is:

Death of a Personality Cult Leader

Temperance is scraping the gristle,

Wooden spoon judders over gum flesh.

Eyes are brittle.

Hardened by all the things they’ve laid gaze upon.

But not insensitive enough not to notice how

Youth smoulders into something older,

Flat smoke dries the fruit,

An acrid shrove

Wear your robes of high grandeur,

Personality cult leader.

After all, it’s your skin.

Thread your gold letters too,

Sew them in.

Impress the chosen few.

You gargle with the blood of followers,

You bathe in freshly dug grave dirt.

My and my, and you’re pretty.

“Listen to how important I am with my noise!”

Give me attention!

The validation!

Appraiser of piety!

“I render those sick, and enjoy the withering!”

I exist, don't deny it!

Spent life in a temple to greatness.

Death is a box.

And this, don't doubt it!

A verdict on devoutness projected on a chamber wall!

A verdict against this personality cult laid gaze upon.

Not ever insensitive enough not to notice how:

Candles burn fast in a cold standing draft

Bitter warmth of the hollow,

And goddamn, you’re pretty

Greville's terror-ific party hits!

It is the season of Halloween, and everyone in their gothic mansions all over town are gathering together for parties. But what to put on the auto-side change tape deck in the 2nd reception room? Let the Greville Tombs' Alternative Spooky Party Mix Tape be your spirit DJ!

1. Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven. Read by Vincent Poe




2. The Season of the Witch, Donovan




3. You're a vampire, One Eyed Doll




4. Guilt, Those Poor Bastards




5. No Time, The Heavy




6.Crazy in Love (Fifty Shades), Beyoncé




7. Blank Space, Taylor Swift



8. Zombie, Jamie T.




9. Sympathy for the Devil, Guns n' Roses




17. Right Red Hand, Nick Cave and the Badseeds




10. Rachel Brooke, The Black Bird




11. Bones, The Killers




12. Setting Sun, The Chemical Brothers




13. Ava Adore, Smashing Pumpkins




14. Bela Lugosi's Dead (cover), CHVRCHES




15. Mogwai fear Satan (live), Mogwai




16. Hellhound on my Trail, Robert Johnson




17. She Wolf, Shakira




18. Souljacker Part II, The Eels