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Alone Into Eternity

from Thaw by Ste van Holm

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In the years 1906 to 1908 a succesful scientific expedition to the northeastern Greenland took place. One of the goals was to explore the last blank spaces on the map, and for this purpose three men went by dogsled to the Independence Fjord drawing a map as they went. Their way back was made difficult by an unusually warm spring rendering travel on the sea ice impossible. Only one of the men was found the following spring, and in his diary they found a death letter hinting the fate of the other two and written just before he laid himself to rest. This song is about dying alone in the freezing polar night.

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Somewhere beneath the light
That shimmers in the night
Fighting their way
Through a landscape
Barren
Cold
A landscape scarse and old
A mystery untold What happened
To these people

Noone’s been more alone
Than you before your death
Frostbitten feet
In the darkness
In defeat
Writing notes before your sleep
A memory to keep
In the frozen distant

Forever
By the shore
Where oscillating pack ice
Gently flows
On and on
The frozen rivers
Cuts through mountains
Calves and thaw away
Changing seasons
Endless winters
Melt

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from Thaw, released September 27, 2019

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Ste van Holm Copenhagen, Denmark

Ste van Holm (born Stefan Holm, 1977) is a Danish musician and composer.
His musical upbringing came from British rock acts of the 70s like Pink Floyd, Mike Oldfield, Genesis and Peter Gabriel, Alan Parsons Project, Brian Eno and King Crimson, but also from electronic acts like Jean-Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk, Vangelis and Klaus Schønning and more contemporary names like Massive Attack. ... more

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