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Patti Smith – Tarkovsky (The Second Stop Is Jupiter) (2012) | Track profile | Dork

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Tarkovsky (The Second Stop Is Jupiter)

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Tarkovsky (The Second Stop Is Jupiter)

Release date: 3rd June 2012

Track 8

4:50

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"Tarkovsky (The Second Stop Is Jupiter)" is a track by Patti Smith, from the album Banga, released 3rd June 2012. The track is 4:50 long. It's filed under Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Patti Smith.

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Lyrics

Tarkovsky (The Second Stop Is Jupiter)

The eternal sun runs to the mother
She smoothes his brow and bids him
Drink from her well of hammered mist
Come along sweet lad,
Fog rises from the ground
The falling soot is just the dust of a shivering gem
The black moon shines on a lake
White as a hand in the dark
She lifts the lamp to see his face
The silver ladle of his throat
The boy
The beast
And the butterfly

The sea is a morgue,
The needle and the gun
These things float in blood
That has no name
The telegraph poles are crosses on the line
Rusted pins not enough saviors to hang
She blesses the road the noose of vine
And waits beneath the triangle
Formed by Mercury,
An evening star
The fifth planet with its blistering sore
And the soaring eagle above and to the west
The boy
The beast
And the butterfly

She walks across a bridge of magpies
Her hollow tongue fills the brightness
With water and in the wink of an eye
One planet with a glittering womb
One white crow one diamond head
Big as a world big as a world
Don't forget how I played with you
She cries and kissed away your tears
The white mouth of the sun smiles
On his beautiful tongue the seed of flight

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Track details

From Banga

4:502012

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Track number

8

Release year

2012

1Amerigo
4:36
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3:47
3Fuji-San
4:13
4This Is the Girl
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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Patti Smith, Sun Ra
Writer: Patti Smith
Composer: Patti Smith, Sun Ra
Producer: Jay Dee Daugherty, Lenny Kaye, Patti Smith, Tony Shanahan
Bass: Tony Shanahan
Drums: Jay Dee Daugherty
Guitar: Jackson Smith, Jason Smith, Lenny Kaye
Keyboards: Tony Shanahan
Vocals: Patti Smith
Mastering Engineer: Greg Calbi
Mixing Engineer: Stewart Lerman
Percussion: Jay Dee Daugherty
Piano: Jesse Paris Smith