Lunatic Lovers from Ernia by Ernia
[Omar]
These lyrics are completely extracted from a song sung by Hoichi, one of the protagonists of one of the stories in the manga “Lunatic Lovers”, by Suehiro Maruo. Hoichi, who has hearing problems, sings these chaotic words to the dead accompanied only by his guitar, and they answer him by appearing before him. With complete surrealism and almost excessive abstraction, the song narrates the relationship with the dead, who remain among the living, not as it is usually related in Death Metal songs, but as the memories of them that persist. It all ends with a catharsis, in which Hoichi discovers that all his visions of confusion and death are caused by a ringing in his ears. I wanted to reflect the song in its entirety because I felt moderately identified with the hallucinations that one can feel suffering from tinnitus, coupling it with anxiety. The name of his song is never mentioned, so I thought it best to name the Ernia song after the title the author gave this short story manga.
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Tracklist
| 6. | Lunatic Lovers | 2:39 |
Lyrics
When the cicada sings
You will die under the cumulus cloud.
When the cicada sings
You will die.
When you die
Your aborted fetus'll celebrate a funeral.
When you die
I want you to bring to me
Flowers from the beyond.
In your pocket, hide those bones
That you don't want anybody to touch.
Storm of moans,
It shouts.
Storm of moans,
It cries.
And a summer day,
Dressed in a suit of flowers.
Suddenly – Dies.
