Patrick Wolf - THE BOWLINE KNOT (feat. "The Night Safari" + "Nowhere Game")

A short film by Joseph Wilson featuring "The Night Safari" and "Nowhere Game" from the The Night Safari EP released on
14th of April 2023. Film Production Credits roll in the end titles of the video.

"on one hand the bowline knot is used as a rescue knot to save people who may have fallen down a hole, or off a cliff onto a ledge, yet also it is used as a hunting knot, bowlines are used to create a loop that can easily be placed around an animal's neck, the ocelot slips the bowline knot but soon falls to prey, down the river Acheron, toward the nowhere game where the meeting of Archangel Zadkiel at the top of the tower at the end of our short film presents a challenge. To begin the journey all over again like Sisyphus or continue, cut the string, disappear to begin working out the way to enter the day"" - Patrick Wolf

Music
Written Produced and Arranged by Patrick Wolf
Mixed, Engineered and Additional Production by Brendan Cox
Celtic Harp, Viola, Violin, Stroh Violin, Upright Piano, Vocals,
Moog Opus 3, Flute Organ, Celeste, Bowed Psaltery and Programming
by Patrick Wolf

Lyrics

The Night Safari

Pardon me
For disturbing your dreaming
Did not want you to hear me crying
Or watch me reeling and receding
Into this old mania of mine
Don't you lose sleep
Pay no mind to me
Unravelling
Forgive me
I Have not been myself
For such a fuckawful time
I just keep my head down
Wait for the planets
To shift around
And procrastinate
My pain into doubt
Don't you lose sleep
Pay no mind to me
Unravelling
All the love in this world
Not enough to hold me
Back from the night
Safari now
River so black
Turning blue
Show me the way
Back to you
And the night
Safari out
Excuse me
While I shift shape
The ocelot
Slips the bowline knot
But soon falls to prey
As a boy
I worshiped The thunder
Now its just a sky under
I wait for to fall
No why only when
But don't you lose sleep
Pay no mind to me
Unravelling
When
All the love
Isn't
Enough

Nowhere Game

A moon bow over bedlam
All of your tranquil
Years oppugned
As a crown of stars
Circles you
Like a Fleischer Brothers cartoon
Summer is dead
In the water
Dare you admit
Your hope is too
And the danger that keeps you alive
Is the danger that longs
To kill you
No
No two ways
Out of here
Happy Birthday
To the never
Get out of this now
Or the here you've been
No two ways
When the nowhere game begins
Nowhere
Nowhere
Dying to be living proof
Of something survived
In your youth
But the lights
Come on for Saturday
And don't go out
Until yours do
No
No two ways
Out of here
Happy Birthday
To the never
Get out of this now
Or the here you've been
No two ways
When the nowhere game begins
Happy Birthday
Nowhere
Nowhere
I know where
Nowhere