Feist’s 2011, Polaris Prize-winning album Metals still resonates at Chez Lefort, over a year later.  Yesterday, on Día de los Muertos, Ms. Feist released a new black & white (except for one digitally colored butterfly) video for Graveyard, one of the more affecting songs on the album.  The Keith Megna-directed video features a stark scene augmented by digital butterflies and blackbirds.  Feist has this to say about the song (via Pitchfork):

“I’m not talking about the Graveyard as a location, but of the entangled thoughts you get when visiting a graveyard. Usually you’re there to visit someone who’s died, and you think in broad terms about what they’ve become and your own mortality and about what time means. We’re alone in the field, always at a distance. And people appear and disappear from your life. Grief comes in the form of much larger thoughts; it’s more philosophical and it leads to a confused state of mind. You don’t get those thoughts from checking your emails! It’s a pullback from details and its grand and isolating.”

The song’s lyrics follow the video.  Bring them all back to life.

“The graveyard, the graveyard all full of light
The only age, the beating heart is empty of life
Dirt and grass, a shadow heart; the moon sails past
Blood as ice is an empty crisis, lonely it lies

Whoa-ah-ah-ah ah-ah, bring ’em all back to life [x4]

Roots and lies, roots and lies, our family tree is old
From there we climb the golden hill, calmly will eternity
I held your heart, a giant wand; all tell of sorrow
And history begins to be blue and brown eyes

Whoa-ah-ah-ah ah-ah, bring ’em all back to life [x8]”