It is rare, dear reader, that I urge you to watch something I have posted, but in the case of John Grant's video for Glacier, I can only emphasise - if you do nothing else today, please watch this.
Eight minutes of glorious, emotionally-draining wonderment. A testament to who we are, and to all that we as gay people have suffered and celebrated...
You just want to live your life
The best way you know how
But they keep on telling you
That you are not allowed
They say you are sick
That you should hang your head in shame
They are pointing fingers
And want you to take the blame
There are days when people are
So nasty and convincing
They say things beyond belief
That sting and leave you wincing
And to boot they say their words
Come straight down from above
And they really seem to think
That what they're doing counts as love
This pain
It is a glacier moving through you
And carving out deep valleys
And creating spectacular landscapes
And nourishing the ground
With precious minerals and other stuff
So, don't you become paralysed with fear
When things seem particularly rough
Don't you pay them fuckers as they say no never mind
They don't give two shits about you. It's the blind leading the blind
What they want is commonly referred to as theocracy
And what that boils down to is referred as hypocrisy
Don't listen to anyone; get answers on your own
Even if it means that sometimes you feel quite alone
No one on this planet can tell you what to believe
People like to talk a lot, and they like to deceive
This pain
It is a glacier moving through you
And carving out deep valleys
And creating spectacular landscapes
And nourishing the ground
With precious minerals and other stuff
So, don't you become paralysed with fear
When things seem particularly rough.
I was going to feature this in my regular "newer music" post, but it is just too beautiful and too powerful to sit alongside anything else.
I cried.
