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Hell Bound (Field of Blood)

from Church of the Lost by Modus Opera & Eye

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    Church of the Lost is a concept album recorded entirely in quarantine in the spring of 2020. An agnostic gospel journey through life & death, the search for meaning, love & heartbreak. A soulful nihilism siren song for the forgotten & the lost.

    A quick note on listening to a concept album in the modern age:
    While all of the parts of this record could stand alone as individual songs, the album is meant to be listened to from beginning to end, preferably in one sitting. And to borrow a quote from the back of David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, played at “maximum volume”.

    Another brief note on “songs” verses “musical movements”:
    There are two ways to separate the music on this record. The first, and most logical for the current marketplace (since the album has been pronounced dead repeatedly) is to look at it like this: A nine track EP featuring an intro, followed by one of four recurring interludes which serve to break up three longer songs. The whole piece ends with a coda that brings us back to the beginning. That is probably complex enough and is the way the album has been presented here.
    The second way to listen (and the way I envision it as the writer), is to look at it as a single 24 ½ minute piece of music broken up into in 16 movements. It was written that way, one small piece at a time, with recurring themes musically and thematically meant to fit together and tell one story.


    Movements:
    I will attempt to describe the motivation and inspiration behind each movement. Please keep in mind that the meaning I glean from this piece is just my opinion. The best any artist can hope for is for their work to be interpreted in ways they've never dreamed of. If I'm lucky, these songs will mean something powerful and personal to you as the listener, that has nothing to do with me.

    (Descriptions of each movement in each song description)

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A song for the sinners. Why not sit for a whiskey with the devil? He may be a bad influence, but at least he drops by once in a while to buy a round. Our guardian angels are elusive, hiding on clouds, reading about themselves on bumper stickers in Walmart parking lots. God is just an absentee dad who never taught you play catch or ride a bike. He sits back and watches you suffer in the torture chamber he's created, deep in the mind and the human heart.
Beelzebub on the other hand, cares enough to show up and spend some time in the dirt with us. To tempt us with worldly pleasures we can touch and taste, instead of vague promises of eternal kingdoms. He is the fallen angel in all of us, the deity of the people. Our flaws are what makes us human. Sin's not weakness, it's uniqueness.

lyrics

Store's all outta whiskey, my throat ain't ever been drier
Where the buffalo roam, gonna find me a bone for my Jezebel Delilah
Teeth gnash, Market crash
on the front page of your lips
all this silver in my pockets
turns to ash on my finger tips

Chorus:
Won't you take me on down
Old Lucifer, take me down
pull down another bottle and pass it around
too young to fight it
too old to settle down
'til you're six feet under ground
Hell bound to bring me down

Door locked with a Church key throw my bones on the fire
Nobody home, my patches are sown on my funeral attire
drink fast
be the last
champagne on your lips
tin coins on my eyelids
pay the Ferryman for the trip

Chorus

Sniff or two of cocaine cut up in a line
river of corn whiskey, pass the bottle one more time
take me down
whoa old Devil take me down
pass that moonshine one more time around
and take me down

I ain't seen my baby, I ain't seen my dog
been six or seven long cold years since they up and gone
take me down
Whoa old devil take me down
My own goldfish don't want me around
take me down

Choking on a cup of Jesus' blood
-Choking on a cup of Jesus' blood
My name will be dragged through the righteous mud
-Name will be dragged through the righteous mud
Now I'm lookin' for a rope to hang from a tree
Ain't no disciple there to bury me
turn that field to cold cold mud
with the drip drop dripping of a poor man's blood.
-Gonna lay my head down in a field of blood.
-Gonna lay my head down in a field of blood.

credits

from Church of the Lost, released June 25, 2020
Modus Opera: Guitar, Bass, Tambourine, Kick, Snare, Field Drum, Vocals

Sissy Vitreous: Vocals

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Modus Opera & Eye Vallejo, California

The soundtrack for the foolish Borracho looking for salvation. Finding it in a cup, or on the road, or maybe behind the sofa.

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