Desertshore

Side 1:

  1. Janitor of Lunacy (4:01)
  2. The Falconer (5:39)
  3. My Only Child (3:27)
  4. Le Petit Chevalier (1:12)
    Translation

Side 2:

  1. Abschied (3:02)
    Translation
  2. Afraid (3:27)
  3. Mütterlein (4:38)
    Translation
  4. All that Is My Own (3:54)
The Falconer

The Falconer
(Nico)

The falconer is sitting on
His summersand at dawn
Unlocking flooded silvercages
And with a silverdin arise
All the lovely faces
And the lovely silvertraces erase
My empty pages

The falconer is sitting on
His summersand at dawn
Beside his singing silverwaves
And his dancing rebelrace
That compose ahead of timeless time
A sound inside my candle light

Father child
Angels of the night
Silverframe my candlelight

Father child
Angels of the night
Silverframe my candlelight

The falconer is sitting on
His summersand at dawn
Unlocking flooded silvercages
And with a silverdin arise
All the lovely faces
And the lovely silvertraces erase
My empty pages

Desertshore LP US Reprise RS 6424
LP US Reprise RS 6424
1970-12-00
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Recorded at Sound Techniques Ltd., 46A Old Church Street, London, 1970-00-00
Producer: John Cale
Arrangements by John Cale
Co-Producer: Joe Boyd for Witchseason Productions
Engineer: John Wood

Nico: vocal, harmonium
John Cale: all other instruments except trumpet
John Cale, Adam Miller & Annagh Wood harmony voices

Except: Le Petit Chevalier
Recorded at Studios Davout, 73 Boulevard Davout, Paris, 1970-00-00
Producer: John Cale
Arrangements by John Cale

Ari: vocal
Nico: harpsichord, prompter

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