sorry, I just love the hell out of this song

[arcane1]

"Though I may seem callous" cried old Thomas Malthus
"Paupers are better off dead.
That we have to feed them is something we need
Like a musket-shot straight through the head."

Not much of a smiler, our man Wat Tyler
Died for the working-man's fight
Was daring such a treason a justified reason
for ending his days with his head on a spike?

In order to see Pearly Factory Gates
We all learn our places, pre-destined fates
God-fearing people with minimal goals
Led to the slaughter, "tools with souls"

Save us from hellfire
Save us from dancing the Brimstone Ballet

When the church and its leaders sought new ways to bleed us
It didn't take them long to find:
the fear of Perdition beats nuclear fission
at making the mill-wheels grind

Ban contraception - a shrewd move says I
Plenty of slaves born to suffer and die
Say "Go forth and multiply" when you want more
When you've too many, just send them to war!

History's wounds will not heal overnight
They pray for my soul as they set me alight
Remember the maxim- "Arbeit Macht Frei"
Thought up by a Christian with God on his side

It's a Hell made by Christians with God on their side

The work goes on in Babylon
Enslaving us from birth
With promises of paradise
They've made a hell on earth

Save us from hellfire
Save us from dancing the Brimstone Ballet

Well I think that Satan was God's best creation
He's kept him in business for years
It's not common sense making mankind repent
But eternal damnation it fears!

They're not slow to realise, they know every trick
Drive human donkeys with God on a stick
Tom Torquemada - he sings like a dream
Lucrecia Borgia plays lead tambourine

Save us from hellfire
Save us from dancing the Brimstone Ballet

Skyclad - "Brimstone Ballet"

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Don't know the song but I haven't seen you post in a while!

:hi:

[arcane1]

3. edit

can't read a damned post :P


I've met all but 2 ppl who know them- one thinks they suck, the other doesn't :P

and yeah, I've been a little quiet lately :hi:

[newswolf56]

2. In the parlance of the coffeehouses of my bohemian youth:

YES MAN YES!

The name "Skyclad" makes it sound like a definitively pagan group. Could you please put up a link to the music?

[arcane1]

4. You're right on- "folk metal" they call themselves

I have no idea where to get too much shit online, but here's a bit

some samples

http://www.mp3shits.com/full/download/Skyclad_-_The_Silent_Whales_Of_Lunar_Sea_mp3/47169/

some tunes

http://rotzorg.org/arnaut/skyclad/

they have the BEST LYRICS EVER :headbang:

[newswolf56]

5. Thanks; too much metal for me -- I'm pretty much an old...

traditional folker: antique English, Scots, Irish, Cymric and Southern Appalachian variants (a lot of which are pagan liturgical survivals), newer more purely pagan stuff by Loreena McKennett and her musical kindred.

[arcane1]

6. Loreena kicks my ass

Kate Price too! :headbang:

[newswolf56]

7. Don't know Price but will check her out; thanks.

A tip back in gratitude: if you like traditional work get a medley album (CD) entitled Song of the Green Linnett. All British musicians, it includes a genuine lay of magic with the unlikely title "Willie's Lady" (now I wonder who She might be?) -- so well done you can almost see the turns of dance.

[arcane1]

8. sweet!

thanks! :yourock: