
These recordings took Black into a more modern musical direction. During her time with De Dannan, Black also continued with her solo career with albums such as Collected (1984) and Without the Fanfare (1985). The album she recorded with them, Anthem, won the Irish Album of the Year award. Black ventured into traditional Irish music with the band De Dannan and toured with them around Europe and in the US. In 1983 it was honoured by the Irish Independent and it is still referred to as one of the best Irish albums of the 1980s. The album performed well in the Irish charts and it went gold.
Dark woods circus english lyrics professional#
In 1982 she developed a professional relationship with musician/ producer Declan Sinnott and recorded her first solo album, Mary Black. 'I couldn't have been born with this body' - the lyrics talk about the poor children who was turned into a biological experiment, having their body parts switched and cut-off.Black on stage with Dolores Keane at the Trowbridge Folk Festival 1985īlack joined a small folk band in 1975 called General Humbert, with whom she toured Europe and released two albums, in 19. She's so much in pain, that she can't stop crying.

He's tied up to prevent him from being wild. And guess what? Human corpse gets colder as time passes. She sees Kaito, whose brain is switched with that of a dog. It seems that she's lost her sight as well. They're holding what seems to be Kaito's food (human arms). Len has no expression while Rin is smiling. Meiko looks in the little hole to see what's inside the tent. It could be that they're seen to be giants because Meiko is a child (adults seem huge when you're little) or that they too, are victims of the biological surgery. The giant Neru and Haku stand guard, as if to catch anyone who escapes.


She flows the duo into a tent in the deep, deep forest. Rin's eyes glow red, as if saying that she's hypnotizing Meiko. Len and Rin, sewed together, lures young Meiko into their tent. Note : I just thought this was really interesting but I didn't write this. :0Īlso if someone outside wanted to see they would peek through a hole in the tent and that as well relates to the song where the little girl looks through and watches.ĭark Woods Circus is also a 8 chapter book that was created a few years later ) The things that the children faced weren't just that either, they would get acid thrown at there faces, arms and legs ripped off or had something removed and many people even payed to see them get raped. These people would sometimes kidnap or buy children and cut off their body parts and display them as an entertainment.Īnd in that case it relates to the part where they took in the children and cut off their body parts.( But of course you couldn't attach em to animal body parts so that didn't happen but in the end it was still horrible. People looked for pleasures so they demanded for "pleasure tents". So, this song is also based on a few events that happened in real life long ago~ There's a related song for "Dark Woods Circus"Ĭalled "Wide Knowledge of Reason, Madness" which is a song before and explains a bit what happens.

Dark woods circus english lyrics series#
This song is part of a series with 5 songs including this one. It is impossible for anyone to say and feel Its painful, its painful, and it cant be helped The chairman with the big eyesand ten meters tallĪ blue beast that loves to eat things coldĭoes anyone wish that I were alive, so undesirable I am in this body?
