Art Bergmann - death of a siren
“I thank Russell Broom for summoning up my request for sirenic beauty of old and Sherri for being that siren…double beauty was hatched. Greg Reely realized it.
Naomi and Zoe must carry on and so must I.
Thank you to Kenneth for the broodingly beautiful video he shot, Thor for the surreal video edit, and to Jason, Phil and TeamArt for moving this out into a callous world.”
– Art Bergmann (July 22, 2022)
SONG CREDITS
Art Bergmann – Music, Lyrics & Vocals
Russell Broom - Guitars, Bass & Programming
Produced by Art Bergmann & Russell Broom
Engineered & Mixed by Russell Broom
Mastered by Greg Reely
VIDEO CREDITS
Shot & Directed by Kenneth Locke
Art Direction by Kenneth Locke & Thor Henrikson
Editing & Post Production by Thor Henrikson
Introducing Avalon Locke
Sherri & Art photograph by Alex Waterhouse-Hayward
Copyright ©2022 - Art Bergmann & (weewerk)
LYRICS
She walks these fields
A hungry ghost
Drinking in sunlight
To overdose
Kiss of the syringe
Cuts through scars
Glimpse of heaven?
Cold night stars
The people here can’t see
Weather gone weird
What they don’t understand
They condemn in fear
She smiles
They demand her name
“I’m the witch,
You turned to flames”
There is no crack
That lets in the light
There is no light
To bridge this dark divide
Grief is the prize
If you stay alive
“Let’s do it your way!”
Our love hard ‘cri de coeur’
Even when pariahs
In our film without a score
Anything less
We kicked out the door
“Weren’t you born,
Love’s what we’re here for!”
There is no crack
That lets in the light
There is no light
To bridge this dark divide
Grief is the prize
If you stay alive
So what can I give
To finally relieve
A song worth nothing
That no one believes
A love larger
Than the national bore
I’d kill the world bank
For one second more
There is no crack
Let’s in the light
There is no light
To bridge this dark divide
Grief is the prize
If you’re left alive
Always surprised
If alive
Grief is the prize
When you wake
She walks these fields
She walks these fields
She walks the sky
Above the fire
I wanna do it your way
Excerpt from Sherri Decembrini interview in December 2021: (credit: video clip from the upcoming documentary Young Canadian by Alan Zweig/52 Media Inc.)
“And we’re still together; it’s a miracle that one of us didn’t die or, you know, we didn’t go down in a blaze of glory, like some people wanted us to.
(Laugh)
Sorry to wreck the ending but… you know…”