Ration my breath - terror clandestine in my chest

These are the opening words in Silent Planet’s - Northern Fires (Guernica), from the album When the End Began.

And thus begins a series where we’ll examine the lyrics and read through the annotations for this song.

“Wait, a song has annotations?” Yes! Silent Planet produces footnotes for their lyrics, citing influences and quotes. Northern Fires has 19! (You can read more about them in the syllabus post.)

To follow along on this journey, you can add [the feed](https://blo g.grotenhuis.info/categories/northern-fires/feed.xml) to your reader, or visit the posts page to catch all the entries. The video of the song (with lyrics and footnotes) is available here.

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