Name: The Death Owl in The Tower of Flints
Duration: P00H07M59S
Description: This song is inspired by the novel Titus Groan, part of the Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake. This song portrays the scene of Lord Sepulchrave's horrifying transformation into the Death Owl and his daughter Fuschia's loss and grief at having been deprived a loving parent for the entirety of her short life. Recitations are taken from the novel.

The Death Owl in The Tower of Flints

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This song is inspired by the novel Titus Groan, part of the Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake. This song portrays the scene of Lord Sepulchrave's horrifying transformation into the Death Owl and his daughter Fuschia's loss and grief at having been deprived a loving parent for the entirety of her short life. Recitations are taken from the novel.

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Seven shelves of burnt volumes
Poets of ashen pages,
Ember words of the burning sages
A thousand histories, a thousand dooms
Overgrown and empty rooms

A father’s love and studied virtue
A daughter’s neglected secret world
Tender words can find no perch here
Dust will settle over each endearment
And the stones will endure

I am the Death Owl in the Tower of Flints

"This... is my hour
The hour of my reincarnation
This is my glory –
you must go away"

The white silence was terrible
White with the bodies of the circling owls
The Tower, the pines, the corpse, the moon
At the time eaten opening at the base of
The Tower of Flints

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from The Tower of Flints, released August 7, 2020
All Words, Music, and Mixing Nicholas Sarcophagus
Mastering by db at Euphoriadic Studios

Recitation used without permission from Titus Groans by Mervyn Peake

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drainbow Austin, Texas

Drainbow is the brainchild of Nicholas Sarcophagus, a multi-instrumentalist and composer currently residing in Austin Texas. Mr. Sarcophagus arose from the hollers and backwoods of Appalachia and learned his craft in the rehearsal rooms and weird streets of West Baltimore. He developed and honed his rock and roll drinking problems in Athens, Georgia. ... more

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