The Flood

from Songs from the River Project, Volume 1 by BRIM

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"The Flood" is a setting of a poem Robert Frost wrote in 1928 in response to the 1927 flood of the Mississippi River that destroyed a million homes, drove hundreds of thousands of people - mostly poor and African-American - north, and transformed America.

My land in Vermont is just a few miles from where Robert Frost once lived, and I felt what I imagine to be a parallel rage and impotence in response to Hurricane Katrina.

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lyrics

The Flood (1928)

Blood has been harder to dam back than water.
Just when we think we have it impounded safe
Behind new barrier walls (and let it chafe!),
It breaks away in some new kind of slaughter.
We choose to say it is let loose by the devil;
But power of blood itself releases blood.
It goes by might of being such a flood
Held high at so unnatural a level.
It will have outlet, brave and not so brave.
Weapons of war and implements of peace
Are but the points at which it finds release.
And now it is once more the tidal wave
That when it has swept by leaves summits stained.
Oh, blood will out. It cannot be contained.

Robert Frost

credits

from Songs from the River Project, Volume 1, released November 1, 2011
Eve Beglarian, voice, electronics, bass;
Mary Rowell, electric violin

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Eve Beglarian Brandon, Vermont

"Ms. Beglarian kayaked and bicycled the length of the Mississippi River [and] has translated her findings into music of sophisticated rusticity… [Her] Americana song cycle captures those swift currents as vividly as Mark Twain did. The works waft gracefully on her handsome folk croon and varied folk instrumentation as mysterious as their inspiration." -The New York Times ... more