Name: Via Dolorosa
Duration: P00H02M24S
Description: "Via Dolorosa" was written as a lament for a woman going through a painful divorce and the original name of the song was "End of a Marriage." The melody and the music video was intentionally made in stark contrast with the lyrics to create an ambiguous song of mixed emotions. The song was made to highlight the complexity of love and loneliness.

Via Dolorosa

from Dissidentica by Lilou & John

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"Via Dolorosa" was written as a lament for a woman going through a painful divorce and the original name of the song was "End of a Marriage." The melody and the music video was intentionally made in stark contrast with the lyrics to create an ambiguous song of mixed emotions. The song was made to highlight the complexity of love and loneliness.

lyrics

Why won't you go
Why won't you leave me
Why won't you find another girl to call your own
Why won't you go
Why won't you leave me
Why won't you find another girl to call your own

I see your shade
Pale through the water
I do not know if I should stay or should I go
I touch my hair
Like yours I used to
It seems like all the world has lost its sense to me

A waterfall
This morning shower
Warm and still I feel the chill all through my soul
I listen to
A voice so endless
I cannot grasp it is my own that sounds so sad

Why won't you go
Why won't you leave me
Why won't you find another girl to call your own
Why won't you go
Why won't you leave me
Why won't you find another girl to call your own

I used to be
More than a shadow
I used to think I was your love and you were mine
I feel the touch
Of my own fingers
And for a second I can feel a broken glass

I will not die
Will not surrender
But there is nothing left that I can call my life
I want to feel
Your soul and body
But when I do I feel the cut that drains my heart

Why won't you go
Why won't you leave me
Why won't you find another girl to call your own
Why won't you go
Why won't you leave me
Why won't you find another girl to call your own
Why won't you go
Why won't you leave me
Why won't you find another girl to call your own

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from Dissidentica, released April 7, 2017

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Eclectic heterodox shadowband creating music for introspective dissent in Drone City.

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