Satellite
of Lvov (audio track & music
video (view
stills)
- 6 mins)
Alternative
cover design
The
cd cover features Brodsky's Satellite Spy Probe in
orbit above
the entrance to the village of Ilawcze where my father was born in
1912. Once in the South Eastern most corner of Poland, since 1939
it has been part of Ukraine.
The
metallic signs show the name of the village in embossed Russian Cyrillic.
The cd cover was designed by Brodsky in 2025
Satellite
of Lvov is a song about the death of my/Brodsky's Polish
Jewish grandmother in the Holocaust. The footage for the Satellite
of Lvov video was shot in Auschwitz - Birkenau, Poland; towns and
villages in Ukraine; locations in New York including, Coney Island disused
funfair, Brighton Beach, the home of Russian immigrants and Ellis Island.
The
back cover of the cd (below) shows some Polish and Ukrainian scenes
from the video.
LYRICS:
Satellite of Lvov
(in memory of Rosalind Blum
and inspired by Lou Reed)
Where have I gone
behind your eyes
things like that psych
me into my mind
I watched me for a little while
I like to watch me on TV
chorus:
Satellite of Lvov
x 4
Where
have I been
in someone's dream
soon it will be filled
with pierogis and sour cream
I watched you for a little while
I love to watch you in the past
chorus
I've
been told
that you've been killed
by Hitler or the U.S.S.R.
where they put you I don't know
I don't know where you are
Where
have I gone
behind your eyes
things like that psych
me into my mind
I watched me for a little while
I love to watch me on TV
