Combining literary, socially engaged texts with innovative and genre-breaking music, she has covered every kind of style, while at the same time maintaining her own identity on each and every recording, whether it be the samples (before sampling became a concept) and electronically treated acoustics of The Sitting Room (1982), to the ground-breaking analogue synth classics of Sleeper In Metropolis (1983) and Our Darkness (1984).
Consistently looking for new ways of expression and communication through the emotion of music and language, Anne seeks to not only challenge herself but her audience also.
Going between extremes of the minimal Scandinavian jazz influences of Unstill Life (1991) to the pastoral and poetic interpretations and translations of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry on Just After Sunset (1997), to the full-on electronics and sparse acoustics of The Smallest Acts Of Kindness (2008), very few artists have covered such a wide spectrum over such a long and consistent career.
At the end of 2010, Anne Clark released the first chapter of a vibrant and on-going project Past & Future Tense, the first release on her own label, After Hours Productions.
Rather than turning out yet another compilation or collection of back catalogue, she decided, in this special anniversary year to invite young and innovative musicians, producers and DJs to take her material, all her material, not the most obvious numbers and to not just “remix” them but completely re-interpret them.
The result a fresh, exciting and contemporary view by a new generation of an artist who in her turn influenced them and their development in the endless possibilities of electronic music.
In January 2011 Anne contributed an arrangement of the Charles Baudelaire poem Enivrez-Vous (Be Drunk) to the audio book and radio play Die Künstliche Paradiese, (Hörbuch Hamburg/Radio Bremen).
Know
Anne Clark Lyrics
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Is the saddest of songs
All I can try
Is to right all the wrongs
I cannot go
To where you have gone
Yet you were the place
That I came from
Something you told me
Stays in my head
Circles above
Like a bird overhead
Something we should have
But never was said
Goes on in the hopes
Of the living instead
Now all that is left
Is the saddest of songs
Now all I can try
Is to right all the wrongs
I watch the stars
And know that you're there
The space in the place
The foot of the stair
The light falling now
On the arm of the chair
The warm reaching sun
The chill evening air
If only we could do
If only we'd dare
To fill every void
With love and with care
Now all that is left
Is the saddest of songs
Now all I can try
Is to right all the wrongs
The lyrics of "Know" by Anne Clark express the feeling of great loss and grief that is associated with someone's departure from one's life. The song is a lament for a loved one who is now absent from the singer's life. The song starts by emphasizing the sadness that the singer feels after the departure of the loved one. The only thing the singer can do is to try to make things right.
The middle section of the song talks about a memory that has stuck with the singer. The idea seems to be that these memories of the loved one are the only thing left that is tangible after they have gone. The singer wishes that something that should have been said, but wasn't, could go on in the hopes of the living instead. This suggests that the singer thinks something important has been left unsaid between them, and now it's too late.
The song concludes by describing different aspects of the physical world that seem to contain reminders of the loved one. The singer wishes that they could fill every void with love and care, which suggests an aspiration to fill the emptiness that the lost loved one has created. Overall, "Know" is a poignant and moving song that captures the depths of grief and the desire to make things right.
Line by Line Meaning
All that is left
There is nothing left but
Is the saddest of songs
The only thing remaining is pain and sorrow
All I can try
The only thing I can do
Is to right all the wrongs
Is to correct all the mistakes that have been made
I cannot go
I am unable to travel
To where you have gone
To the place where you now reside
Yet you were the place
You were my home
That I came from
The source of my being
Something you told me
A message you conveyed to me
Stays in my head
Remains in my thoughts
Circles above
Revolved around
Like a bird overhead
Similar to a bird flying above
Something we should have
Something that we ought to have done
But never was said
But remained unspoken
Goes on in the hopes
Continues to exist in the aspirations
Of the living instead
Of those who are still alive
I watch the stars
I observe the celestial bodies
And know that you're there
And am aware that you exist
The space in the place
The emptiness in the location
The foot of the stair
The base of the stairs
The light falling now
The illumination descending currently
On the arm of the chair
On the part of the chair where one rests their arm
The warm reaching sun
The sun's warmth spreading
The chill evening air
The coldness of the night atmosphere
If only we could do
If it were possible for us
If only we'd dare
If only we had the courage
To fill every void
To eliminate every emptiness
With love and with care
With affection and concern
Contributed by Colin J. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@WormSermonizer
this is everything.
@linandreeva
All that is left
Is the saddest of songs
All I can try
Is to right all the wrongs
@MrBluehash1
"If only we could do, if only we dare, to fill every void with love and with care..." maybe we'll fail, but I'll go on trying till my last breath. And you give me strengh to carry on.. luv
@venteadero
Deep feelings themselves.
@baranyaigyorgy1952
Primacy!