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Sometimes You Sing A Dark Song

from Republic of the Weird by Cursed Murphy Versus the Resistance

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Produced by Peter Murphy, Dan Comerford, Johnny Fox. Engineered and mixed by Johnny Fox. Mastered by Fergal Davis.

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I’m not a poet or a playwright, I make tiny marks
upon the greater navigator’s chart
that maps the heart
though maybe there will come a day I’ll speak a melody
to make a maiden or a mother smile
’til then I’ll sing a dark song
or I’ll sing no song at all

Townes Van Zandt swore that there’s only two songs
– Zippity do dah and the blues
I can’t write like Townes, I can’t even speak like Townes,
but one day I’d like to flatter your vanity
with a romance or a madrigal
though you’d probably smell the lie,
maybe it’s enough to say
whatever may come down
let it come down
thy will be done
we’ll take the two days, sing the two songs
Zippity Do-Dah and the blues
what would Eden be
without the Fall
sometimes you spin from dark yarn
or spin no yarn at all

Kid says to her father,
father you were in the war
what was it you did
were you with the blues,
or were you with the reds?
father will not answer
father will not speak of it
until the day he says,
Kid, it's not just what we saw
but what we did
this is why I take my death
in daily increments
this is why I smoke these cigarettes
and swab the soul with alcohol
sometimes you sing a dark song
or sing no song at all

Maybe now is not the time
to write dystopian songs
nihilism is a young man’s game
no more Johnny Thunders, William Burroughs, Kurt Cobain
we can’t afford the luxury of despair
but when all you’ve got are prayers
made out of bits of science fiction films
and punk rock songs,
when all you’ve got is a gospel
composed in a foxhole
you sing a dark song
or sing no song at all

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from Republic of the Weird, released November 4, 2022
Written by Peter Murphy, Dan Comerford, Jasmin Gangnus.

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Cursed Murphy Versus the Resistance Wexford, Ireland

An eight-piece head-on collision between post-punk poetry, noise-rock and ambient atmospheres. Based in Wexford, Ireland.

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