Greener than Grass, by Marissa Henry

Greener than Grass

by Marissa Henry

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1.	Burn That City Down (Alcaeus 42) 02:20	lyrics	buy track
The child of a swan and a woman The bribe for a pretty boy’s praise A curse on an arrogant people To show them the fault of their ways So find yourself a wife who’s not like that Who’s not like that Don’t bring her to your city She’s just a liability And when the ships and armies come around They will burn that city down The child of a nymph and the ocean The gods always longed for her hand A maiden of honor and chastity The wife of a virtuous man So find yourself a wife who’s just like that Who’s just like that And love will bloom for both of you And she will bear a son for you And when he hears that battle trumpet sound He will burn that city down, down
2.	Dry North Wind (Ibycus 286) 03:01	lyrics	buy track
You think it’s gonna be Like an apple tree In spring, in spring You think it’s gonna be Like a garden with a Stream, flowing stream Chorus: But it doesn’t care for seasons Love does not abide by seasons Tearing through your soul like a dry north wind Twisting up your mind with madness You think it’s gonna grow Like a grape vine in the Shade, in the shade You think it’s gonna bloom And you’ll never be betrayed, be betrayed Chorus You think it’s gonna sound Like an echo in the pines In the pines You think it’s gonna taste Like the last drop of the wine Of the wine Chorus
3.	Andromache's Wedding (Sappho 44) 03:52	lyrics	buy track
Bring me to your town Announce my dowry Silken purple gowns And gold and ivory Chorus: Play the flute and the castanets Let’s celebrate our one good day Myrrh and cinnamon overwhelm us Women sing ololuge Everyone will cheer And dance in chorus How could we have known What fate held for us? Chorus Bridge: Mix the wine, raise it high Smile at your blushing dark-eyed bride I don’t know where we’ll go When all the songs are over Even if you die And I am taken Our fame will reach the sky Of love unshaken Chorus
4.	Things That Can Go Wrong (Mimnermus 2) 02:50	lyrics	buy track
Like the leaves that flourish in the spring, in the spring growing with the glimmer of the sun for a time We enjoy the flower of our youth But we’re all bound to fade, bound to fade We don’t know our fortune from our doom, from our doom Living in the shadow of the ends we can choose Either we can die before our time Or we’re bound to grow old, to grow old Many are the things that can go wrong, go wrong Everyone is burdened with his own kind of grief Money problems, family problems, no one is free from the woes of the world Like the leaves that flourish in the spring, in the spring growing with the glimmer of the sun for a time We enjoy the flower of our youth But we’re all bound to fade, bound to fade
5.	Lullaby Theory (Simonides 543) 04:24	lyrics	buy track
Sleep my child and tell the roaring ocean to go to sleep Sleep my child and maybe then our troubles will go to sleep The ocean swirls around your bed The wind is wailing up above your head And everything that frightens me Is nothing to you in your sleep my child The sea is vast and we are locked inside of our little box Your face is bright within the gloomy darkness inside the box I don’t know where we are, my son I don’t know if we’ll ever see the sun And all that I can do for you Is wrap you up and hold you close my child Father Zeus is far away and never will hear my voice But we are lost and all alone, and so, I will raise my voice And maybe he will think me bold And maybe he will leave us in the cold I hope that he forgives my prayer And changes course and saves me and my child Sleep my child and tell the roaring ocean to go to sleep Sleep my child and maybe then our troubles will go to sleep The ocean swirls around your bed The wind is wailing up above your head And everything that frightens me Is nothing to you in your sleep my child

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Five songs based on ancient Greek lyric poems.

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released November 28, 2018

All music and lyrics by Marissa Henry. All vocals and instruments by Marissa Henry, except cello on Lullaby Theory by Julia Shu. Cover art by Kay Aitch (@putrid.pinup on Instagram).

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Marissa Henry Berkeley, California

Marissa is a Classics Ph.D. student and singer-songwriter specializing in folk-pop adaptations of ancient Greek poetry played on toy instruments.

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