Colin McCahon Victory over death 2 1970
"I look back with joy on taking a brush of white paint and curving through the darkness with a line of white." Colin McCahon1
Track 3 on David Bowie's last album is Lazarus
"I rediscovered good old Lazarus. Now this is one of the most beautiful and puzzling stories in the New Testament … It hit me, BANG! At where I was: questions and answers, faith so simple and beautiful and doubts still pushing to somewhere else. It really got me down with joy and pain."
"I rediscovered good old Lazarus. Now this is one of the most beautiful and puzzling stories in the New Testament … It hit me, BANG! At where I was: questions and answers, faith so simple and beautiful and doubts still pushing to somewhere else. It really got me down with joy and pain."
McCahon on his painting Practical Religion: the resurrection of Lazarus showing Mount Martha (Victory over death 1) 1969–702
McCahon as quoted by Deborah Hart hereTrack 1 on David Bowie's last album is Blackstar
This is the sTAR version by
stars of Theatre of the Actors of Regard :
In the villa of Ormen, in the villa of Ormen
Stands a solitary candle, ah-ah, ah-ah
In the centre of it all, in the centre of it all
Your eyes
On the day of execution, on the day of execution
Only women kneel and smile, ah-ah, ah-ah
At the centre of it all, at the centre of it all
Your eyes, your eyes
Ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah
In the villa of Ormen, in the villa of Ormen
Stands a solitary candle, ah-ah, ah-ah
In the centre of it all, in the centre of it all
Your eyes
Ah-ah-ah
Something happened on the day he died
Spirit rose a metre and stepped aside
Somebody else took his place, and bravely cried
(I’m a blacksTAR, I’m a blacksTAR)
How many times does an angel fall?
How many people lie instead of talking tall?
He trod on sacred ground, he cried loud into the crowd
(I’m a blacksTAR, I’m a blacksTAR, I’m not a gangsTAR)
I can’t answer why (I’m a blacksTAR)
Just go with me (I’m not a filmsTAR)
I’m-a take you home (I’m a blacksTAR)
Take your passport and shoes (I’m not a popsTAR)
And your sedatives, boo (I’m a blacksTAR)
You’re a flash in the pan (I’m not a marvel sTAR)
I’m the Great I Am (I’m a blackstar)
Colin McCahon I Am 1954
I’m a blacksTAR, way up, on money, I’ve got game
I see right, so wide, so open-hearted pain
I want eagles in my daydreams, diamonds in my eyes
(I’m a blacksTAR, I’m a blacksTAR)
Something happened on the day he died
Spirit rose a metre then stepped aside
Somebody else took his place, and bravely cried
(I’m a blacksTAR, I’m a sTAR's sTAR, I’m a blacksTAR)
I can’t answer why (I’m not a gangsTAR)
But I can tell you how (I’m not a film sTAR)
We were born upside-down (I’m a sTAR's sTAR)
Born the wrong way ‘round (I’m not a white sTAR)
(I’m a blacksTAR, I’m not a gangsTAR
I’m a blacksTAR, I’m a blacksTAR
I’m not a pornsTAR, I’m not a wandering sTAR
I’m a blacksTAR, I’m a blacksTAR)
In the villa of Ormen stands a solitary candle
Ah-ah, ah-ah
At the centre of it all, your eyes
On the day of execution, only women kneel and smile
Ah-ah, ah-ah
At the centre of it all, your eyes, your eyes
Ah-ah-ah
Colin McCahon A candle in a dark room 1947
I see right, so wide, so open-hearted pain
I want eagles in my daydreams, diamonds in my eyes
(I’m a blacksTAR, I’m a blacksTAR)
Something happened on the day he died
Spirit rose a metre then stepped aside
Somebody else took his place, and bravely cried
(I’m a blacksTAR, I’m a sTAR's sTAR, I’m a blacksTAR)
I can’t answer why (I’m not a gangsTAR)
But I can tell you how (I’m not a film sTAR)
We were born upside-down (I’m a sTAR's sTAR)
Born the wrong way ‘round (I’m not a white sTAR)
(I’m a blacksTAR, I’m not a gangsTAR
I’m a blacksTAR, I’m a blacksTAR
I’m not a pornsTAR, I’m not a wandering sTAR
I’m a blacksTAR, I’m a blacksTAR)
In the villa of Ormen stands a solitary candle
Ah-ah, ah-ah
At the centre of it all, your eyes
On the day of execution, only women kneel and smile
Ah-ah, ah-ah
At the centre of it all, your eyes, your eyes
Ah-ah-ah
Colin McCahon A candle in a dark room 1947
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