Andrew Bird - I felt a Funeral, in my Brain ft. Phoebe Bridgers (Official Video)

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Lyrics from Emily Dickinson's original poem "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain":

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading - treading - till it seemed
That Sense was breaking through -

And when they all were seated,
A Service, like a Drum -
Kept beating - beating - till I thought
My mind was going numb -

And then I heard them lift a Box
And creak across my Soul
With the same Boots of Lead, again,
Then Space - began to toll

As all the Heavens were a Bell,
And Being, but an Ear,
And I, and Silence, some strange Race,
Wrecked, solitary, here -

And then a Plank in Reason, broke,
And I dropped down, and down -
And hit a World, at every plunge,
And Finished knowing - then -

And then I heard them lift a Box
And creak across my Soul
With the same Boots of Lead, again,
Then Space - began to toll,

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading - treading - till it seemed
That Sense was breaking through -

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, Ink. Emily Dickinson poems, MS Am 1118.3, (53c). Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Images courtesy of the Emily Dickinson Museum. Videography by CN1 Productions.

The Emily Dickinson Museum comprises two historic houses in the center of Amherst, Massachusetts, including the Homestead, which was the birthplace and home of Emily Dickinson. It is the Museum’s mission to spark the imagination by amplifying Emily Dickinson’s revolutionary poetic voice from the place she called home. EmilyDickinsonMuseum.org

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