BACKBONEHold the line, aye
Do you fight for pride or glory? Do you hold your scars close to your heart? Fall behind, aye Who will live to tell your story? You were taught to leave no man behind I don't know where you've gone You used to be the heart of this town Now you waste your tears on someone else I don't know where you are now You used to have a heart of gold Only trust yourself and no one else Hold your fire, aye Brave young men will fall before they Ever get to watch their young ones grow Hear me now, aye Carry all my sins and I will Learn to love the flag and nothing more Oh, I don't know where you've gone You used to be the heart of this town Wasted all your tears on someone else I don't know where you are now You used to have a heart of gold Only trust yourself and no one else Oh, no one else Woah Woah Yeah, you've got your back against the wall Say, where's your backbone, brother? Where's your backbone, brother? Where's your backbone, brother? Where's your backbone, brother? Where's your backbone, brother? Where's your backbone, brother? Where's your backbone, brother? Got your back against the wall Say, where's your backbone, brother? Where's your back bone, brother? Where's your back bone, brother? |
Music video filmed in an ice cave on January 29, 2021, LIVE at Breiðarmerkurjökull; produced by @rough_cult
"We had to drag our equipment on sleds through ice the day before our performance inside the ice cave January days are very short in Iceland with only about 4 hours of daylight which made this project very challenging. In addition, we were performing in negative 15 degrees celsius temperatures." - Live from Iceland map
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Literally any photo taken from "Backbone" is bound to be breathtaking, as the natural beauty of Breiðarmerkurjökull is on full display. However, the messaging at the end is more somber: "The ice cave where this live performance was filmed has melted and disappeared. By the year 2100, the entire glacier will be gone."
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About Breiðamerkurjökull from Troll Expeditions
Breiðamerkurjökull or “Breidó” to the locals, means "wide, woodland glacier" in Icelandic. It is a glacial tongue that flows down the mountains from Vatnajökull. Breiðamerkurjökull is the largest of 35 glacial tongues that come of the ice cap Vatnajökull. If you think of an ice cap like the palm of your hand, the glacial tongues that come down the mountains are the “fingers”. Vatnajökull is the largest ice cap in Europe and is roughly 8.000m squared, and takes up almost the entire south-east corner of Iceland. Normally, an ice cave is created by the flow of water from the surface of the glacier to the bottom and out into a lagoon or stream. The water makes pipes or a plumbing system through the glacier. If you slice a glacier sideways it will look like a piece of swiss cheese with tunnels going vertically and horizontally through the ice. The reason the ice caves in Breiðamerkurjökull have such clear ice is because the glacier is so old and has spent more time squeezing the air out of the ice. The ice at the terminus is around 1200 years old. The Breiðamerkurjökull valley is very wide and flat and so there isn’t a lot of natural topography assisting in the ice moving down the hill, only the production of new ice at the top. |
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SURFACE SOUNDS (2021)
1. Brother Run Fast 2. Break My Baby 7. My Fair Lady 3. Alter Ego 8. I Want More 4. Free The Slave 9. Backbone 5. Skinny 10. I Walk On Water 6. Hey Gringo 11. Into My Mother's Arms |
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