Alex Henry Foster - "Shadows of Our Evening Tides" (feat Allen Ginsberg) [Official Music Video]

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Featuring American poet Allen Ginsberg reading his masterful work “Song”, considered to be one of the great works of American literature, “Shadows of Our Evening Tides”, is an immersive and contemplative journey about finding peace through grieving time and living with the regrets of moments left undone. 

About the Video:
“Shadows of Our Evening Tides” is the second single off “Windows in the Sky”, the first solo album by Alex Henry Foster, Your Favorite Enemies' lead singer.

Filmed in Tokyo, Japan, the short movie represents the ineluctable pursuit of an everlasting happiness within the implacable context of a life hastily passing by. A relentless voyage about finding a personal purpose in our daily humdrum, discovering vivid colors in leaden monochromatic sceneries and uncovering the nature of extraordinary in what is too often considered the essence of ordinary. From a stranger to another, the short film “Shadows of Our Evening Tides” reflects an intimate story that intertwines into a greater, collective one.


About the Album: 
Written between North Africa, the highlands of Virginia, and his Montreal home, “Windows in the Sky” has been crafted in a fragile state of emotional isolation following the passing of his father, a devoted believer to whom he was estranged, after a long battle with cancer. 

Foster explores the nature of faithlessness, sorrows and solitude while trying to find a hopeful direction within the disorientation and the confusion brought about by grief.  

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LYRICS:
(The weight of the world
is love.
Under the burden
of solitude,
under the burden
of dissatisfaction

the weight,
the weight we carry
is love.

but we carry the weight
wearily,
and so must rest
in the arms of love
at last,
must rest in the arms
of love.

No rest
without love,
no sleep
without dreams
of love–

The warm bodies
shine together
in the darkness,
the hand moves
to the center
of the flesh,
the skin trembles
in happiness
and the soul comes
joyful to the eye–

yes, yes,
that’s what
I wanted,
I always wanted,
I always wanted,
to return
to the body
where I was born.)

We all wish to find a place, to go back as a friend
To hear our names from the high-wave stand
We all wish to find a place

We all wish to find a place, to go back as a lover
We stir and swirl, we kneel and hope, we cry and pray
Trying to follow

We all wish to find a place, to go back as a lover
To feel the tide from our high-wave stand

In the shadows between the lights
In the shadows of our evening tides
I never learned how to swim
Like water in my hands, on your lips

In the shadows of our evening tides
In the shadows between the lights
In the shadows of our evening tides
In the shadows between the lights