"A Good Friday Spell" genre: Progressive Rock
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	CD: A Good Friday Spell Credits: Music-Pekkola, Lyrics-Filppu, Arr.-TYM
	Story Behind the Song A Good Friday Spell was obtained on Good Friday, 2000. This song is the axis of the Spell. Sketches of it were written when millennium changed, as the song was composed at that time, but not until the holy day of suffering and joy, after listening to Bob Dylan and drinking litres of coffee on a parchment with good friends, after a good party, enjoying the first sunny and warm day of the year --were the words given. And this is about turning back on your heels. The whole thing has been to contain the resistance of the world itself (that is, the feeling of rebellion, hate or denial) while at the same time giving in for a new kind of idealism. Trying to avoid the naivism of a moral lecture, but still hanging on to religious images. To capture the spirit of the devil and violently force it to a strict form -with the guidance of something higher, good. This is the anthem for a generation jerking off between nihilistic irony and the worn-out remains of almost forgotten religion. It's about finding a new path out of the circumstances where there are only bad and even worse options. Of course, that's what the real vein of mystic poetry has always been about. In an age when art is even more dead than god and rock together, the only reasonable choice is to get in touch with this immortal tradition. The religious ideal comes to picture for the simple reason that without a decent re-interpretation of the old works of, say, western poetry from Goethe to Puskin, there is not a chance in the pit of Hades to even begin with something we might call "the spirit of today". The urvater will get his vengeance if we fail to remember him. And there's also something about working. It could be a suggestion that magic and synchronicity are real phenomena, though their nature will not ever be revealed.... ...not to the god-imitating dog, nor even to the humble mystic. Lyrics "There'll be no burdens to darken the green / A place of living brought an ordeal / Here's the coffin you know / Where are we going tonight, Who'll ask / Hey, branches are trying to get out of there / And I'm fond of the weather / Yes, what a truth, baby, you'd never seen me that silent...." "I was right in that it works and wrong in a few other things" "I've tried so much, and are you going to watch these steps hoping that I grieve" for full lyrics, go to our website

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