Name: The Fisher King
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Description: The Fisher King is the first release from a forthcoming album by writer David W. Berner

The Fisher King

by David W. Berner

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The Fisher King is the first release from a forthcoming album by writer David W. Berner

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Marching single in a row
Daughters of time letting go
They bring the priest and doctor too
Running in long black coats over fields of dew

Dragonflies draw the flame
The water rises just the same
Visions of falling through the clouds
Finding the lost and found in the lonely crowds

She’s the Fisher King

The prophet stands against the night
Eyes away from the light
The mortal man finds answers true
Kneels before the sun for me and you

He’s the Fisher King

Something hidden behind the sky
A million years away they hear the cry
She is given to the lost
Swallowed in the river she couldn’t cross

She’s the Fisher King

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released August 3, 2023
Music and lyrics, acoustic guitar: David W. Berner
Additional instrumentation: Jim Olson
Produced and engineered: Jim Olson
Track art: Photo by José Carlos Chero

Song Inspiration

The Fisher King, keeper of the Holy Grail, is an enigmatic figure in literature: a rich king wounded by his own spear. The earliest sources show him suffering a moral wound—a result not of accident but his ethical failings. The wound does not heal. Worse, it effects
everything around him, and so the abundance and richness of life is reduced to barren waste.

However, there is a moment in the story when the wound—of both the king and his environment—could be healed, not by medicine or technology but by insight.

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David W. Berner Illinois

David W. Berner is a writer and songwriter. He lives and writes outside Chicago.

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