Barbaraville

from aon by sighrens

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Barbaraville is a small settlement on the north west shore of the Cromarty Firth in Scotland. The Cromarty Firth is an important North Sea oil facility and is full of abandoned oil-rigs in an otherwise bleak landscape. This song is about someone travelling from central Scotland to Barbaraville in the Highlands to see a long-lost love. Within a few miles of her home he stops and turns around, resolving to replace love with hate. The Kessock Bridge at Inverness is a popular suicede spot.

lyrics

I crawled the tourist-clogged A9,
Past fields and kirks and roadside shrines.
Trying to find,
Something far away, I once left behind.

By Kessock Bridge I stopped to weep,
I'd come so far and gone too deep,
Still looking to keep,
An appointment from the past, a promise at last.

As I came down the hill from Tore,
I saw at once what lay before,
I saw the oil-rigs in the firth,
I felt the spinning of the Earth,
I tasted blood inside my mouth,
I turned around and I headed South.

I hope that I will see the day,
You throw yourself into Nigg Bay
and wash away.
I hymn your death, I curse your birth,
I cast you from me to the firth.

I won't go back to Barbaraville,
I'll think no more on Barbaraville,
I've never been to Barbaraville,
There's nothing more in Barbaraville.

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from aon, released July 17, 2008

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sighrens UK

sighrens was a lo-fi melancholy indie-folk collective from Scotland centred around main songwriter Griff.

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trì

Dec 2022
dha

Oct 2009
aon

Jul 2008

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