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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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There were six of us on mission
bivouacked outside of Schull
we ate from our provision
we drank more than our fill
we set off in the evening when
the kestrel finds its kill
we did what any soldier will
when we came upon that hill

We branded all their cattle
we put on ladies' frills
we threw dice for their chattels
and took apart their stills, unmanacled
their slaves and set ablaze the fields they tilled
we must've been three-quarter crazed
when we came upon that hill

Some said we lost our reason
on account of all the pills
court martial termed it treason
and sharpened up their quills
threatening to requisition
every nickel, every bill
took note of our position
when we came upon that hill

Some say the truth’s immutable
others, something you distil
to a narrative you can live with
its quintessence, if you will
there's a skill, you live with it
I guess you know the drill
I hear it yet, the kestrel
when we came upon that hill

Brother if I'm straight with you
I weary of this hell
mother I bear no hate for you
nor avarice, nor ill
but I was not cut out for the plough
nor born to dark satanic mills
and I can't recall
that day at Schull
nor details yet deposed in full
I can't recall that day in Schull
if I killed or I was killed
when we came up on that hill, captain
we came upon that hill

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

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

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