Brief airy atmospherics and then immediately, the voice.
‘Running like a horse between the trees
The ground beneath my feet
Gives me something to hold onto’
‘Laughter and Forgetting’ picks up from the theme of the song ‘Brilliant Trees’. Here, though, joy and optimism are more unreserved. ‘Brilliant Trees’ captures the faltering of conventional religious faith, yet transforming love is found in another’s eyes. In ‘Laughter and Forgetting’ the sense of loss is not so acute as Sylvian again uses imagery from nature to express a joie de vivre that I find uplifting and alluring.
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