I Live - The Shoreless Sea

The Shoreless Sea
The Shoreless Sea
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Published 2024-04-30
I Live, by The Shoreless Sea

The Shoreless Sea present to you their musical interpretation of a transcendent poem on spiritual life by the sixteenth century Spanish mystic St John of the Cross.

Director of Photography: Alessandro Oliveri (www.instagram.com/alessandro_oliveri92)
Producer: Janita McPharlin
Editor: Hamish McPharlin
Special Thanks: Fifth Frame Films (www.fifthframe.co.uk/)

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Within myself I do not dwell
Since without you I cannot live
Reft of myself and God as well
What makes this life I cannot tell
Except a thousand deaths to give
Whilst waiting here for life I lie
Dying that I do not die

This life I live in vital strength
Is loss of life less I win you
And so to die I shall commence in
‘Til in you I live at length
Listen how my life is in you
A life I do not want for I die
That I do not die

So in your absence and your lack
How can I in myself abide
Nor suffer here a death more black
Than ever was by mortal died
For pity of myself I’ve cried
And yearning as I yearn poor I’m dying
That I do not die

I shall lament my death these times
And mourn my life that it must be
Kept prisoner by the sins and crimes
So long before I am set free
Tell me Lord when will it be
When I may say and tell no lie
I live ‘cause I’ve ceased to die

Translation: St John of the Cross The Poems, translated by Roy Campbell, Penguin Books, 1960

Written, arranged and produced by The Shoreless Sea.

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The Shoreless Sea are:

Vocals: Amelia Samuel
Vocals: Joyce Efia Harmer
Vocals: Jamin O'Donovan
Vocals, santur, saz, bass, 6 & 12 string guitars, synths: Anthony Harmer
Drums: Hamish McPharlin
Violins: Gregory Maytan
Cello: Natacha Sedkaoui
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