kneel to the cross

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i use quite a bit of religious imagery in my writing, but this takes the biscuit.

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kneel to the cross

Give us our bread and bury our dead
And kneel to the cross on the wall
Whether burnt at the stake or drunk at the wake
Just kneel to the cross on the wall
We've original sin, but we might just get in
If we beg to the cross on the wall
It's rattle your neighbours and rattle your sabre
But kneel to that cross on the wall.

See the roof fall, hear the bells crash
As flesh and bone turns to ash
Tried to conquer the sun with a Christian frost
The corpses' stench beneath the cross

And give them gold and they'll save your soul
And kneel to the cross on the wall
And hail to the boss of the great unwashed
And kneel to the cross on the wall
They wail and weep, the march of the sheep
As they go to the cross on the wall
And it's ever so wrong to dare to be strong
So kneel to the cross on the wall

See the roof fall, hear the bells crash
As flesh and bone turns to ash
Tried to conquer the sun, with a Christian frost
The corpses' stench beneath the cross.
And it's ever so wrong to dare, to be strong
And it's ever so wrong to dare, to be strong

[Cornflake]

Connington, I don't think I share your view of religion but I like the song. Some of yours are dense to the point that I'm not getting them. Here I get a clear idea of what you're feeling and you express it powerfully.

I had qualms are about these lines:

"But summer is a-coming and arise! Arise!
But summer is a-coming and arise! Arise!"

"Arise" made me think of the Marsellaise. These days, nobody I know would exhort people to arise and it sounds a bit literary, as if the rest came from the heart and that came from the library.

A minor nitpick. Good song.

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i believe you to be right...... thanks

[Marshall]

This one is the strongest tune you've posted IMHO. It's direct and a punch-in-the-gut. I really feel like I understand what you're saying. The constant juxtaposition of the kneel to the cross image is powerful.


The ending lines "And it's ever so wrong to dare, to be strong" confuses me though. I'm waiting for a definite conclusion but that line puts me back out in the wilderness asking what it's supposed to mean.

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it's supposed to mean that you're deemed a heathen if you don't go along with the whole religion thing. thanks for the crit