The second drawing in the Book of Deleriums.
Based on the song 'Virus Meadow' by And Also The Trees.
I did this drawing back in the last week of January, in the week leading up to seeing And Also The Trees in concert in London.
The song 'Virus Meadow' has fascinated me for years, and is inspired by the Worcestershire countryside where the band originally come from, and where I have lived at various points in my life.
The full lyrics are as follows:
Rattled chime, slow ringing echo, roll around in virus meadow
Suck enchanted nightshade twine, hear the bells beneath them chime
Sinking summer, priest-head murmers, holy words across the meadows
Kiss the plagues black rolling hand and from his lips the virus sang
And the rooks seemed to follow him wherever he goes, flapping in the flat sky,
shrieking in the spire, hanging from the lead sky, dangling from the sun
The rooks, they seemed to follow him, wherever he goes.
Nodding thistle, English sun dew, swansneck woman, child-bed meadow
Aching shoulders sink and groan, as the bells from ditches toll
And the smeared skin wrapped limbs of the night-brothers,
struggling, crawling, through the empty crack of morning,
are the night-brothers
are the night brothers
the night brothers
the night brothers...
The song can be found on the album 'Virus Meadow' released way way back in 1986...
