the memories come in waves (23 February 2016)

I have listened to David Sylvian's Secrets of the Beehive for almost 30 years.
It is melancholy but beautiful and peaceful.

On the banks of a sunset beach 
Messages scratched in sand 
Beneath a roaming home of stars 
...
On the waterfront the rain 
Is pouring in my heart 
Here the memories come in waves 
Raking in the lost and found of years 

- Waterfront

The sun shines high above
The sounds of laughter
The birds swoop down upon
The crosses of old grey churches
We say that we're in love
While secretly wishing for rain

- September

 


I'm watching as the gulls all settle down 
Upon the empty vessels 
The faded whites of their wedding gowns 
The songs of hopeless selflessness

- Let the Happiness In

Irene Suchocki, On The Fly, 2012

Images of Derek Jarman's garden at Dungeness, in Kent.  The garden was established in 1986, contemporary with Secrets of the Beehive, and evokes for me the same bleak yet beautiful melancholy.