We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Come Away Death

from Straight Cheerful by String Figures

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $1 USD  or more

     

lyrics

Come away, come away death
And in sad cypress let me be laid
Fly away, fly away breath
I am slain by a fair cruel maid

My shroud of white all stuck with yew
Oh prepare it, oh prepare it
My part of death no one so true
Did share it

Come away, come away death
And in sad cypress let me be laid
Fly away, fly away breath
I am slain by a fair cruel maid

Not a flower, not a flower sweet
On my black coffin let there be strewn
Not a friend, not a friend greet
My poor corpse where my bones shall be thrown

Come away, come away death
And in sad cypress let me be laid
Fly away, fly away breath
I am slain by a fair cruel maid

A thousand sighs to save
Lay me oh where
Sad true lover never find my grave
To weep there

Come away, come away death
And in sad cypress let me be laid
Fly away, fly away breath
I am slain by a fair cruel maid
Come away, come away death
And in sad cypress let me be laid
Fly away, fly away breath
I am slain by a fair cruel maid

credits

from Straight Cheerful, released August 3, 2018
Lyrics from William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

String Figures Chicago, Illinois

Queering kinship one track at a time
*
Debut EP out spring 2020 </3

contact / help

Contact String Figures

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like String Figures, you may also like: