Laureate of yearning

Van Morisson’s incantations and repetitions, admonitions, yearnings and folk-music prove that people walked this earth yearning for a heaven elsewhere. Thomas McCarthy on a selection of Morisson’s lyrics.

Laureate of yearning
Sat, 18 Oct, 2014 - 01:00

LIT UP INSIDE: Selected Lyrics

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