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    "Heathen"genre: Experimental/Post Rock
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    Electric guitars, Moog.
    CD: The Quare Fellow Soundtrack by the Aurelians   Label: Triple R Records
    Credits: jwelch

    Story Behind the Song
    Written for a production of Brendan Behan's "The Quare Fellow" that ran at Chicago's Chopin Theater 5/2001. The play was written in 1954 and deals with the last day of a condemned man.

    This song was written from the perspective of the condemned man, and is what one of the three letters he wrote on death row may have said.

    In the play you never discover what the letters say, they are never sent to the intended recipients, they are stolen by fellow inmates assigned to bury him, who in turn, sell them to the local papers for profit.

    Lyrics
    Heathen

    Hold your tongue
    I’m not giving in
    To the murderer of murderers
    Or their consolations

    Have mercy on me
    Show what love you can

    And speak to me
    Through some sign
    I’m no heathen
    I have faith
    But god is just this
    Look you have

    The earth’s not still
    With our oblivion
    From your still lips
    To the constellations

    So speak to me
    As some sign
    I’m no heathen
    I have faith
    But god is just this
    Look you had

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