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Oh What A Thing This Heart Of Man

by Band Of Holy Joy

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OH WHAT A THING THIS HEART OF MAN Angels might have lived the life Flesh and blood could not You with all your human failings Stance a tumble senses derailing Hurling grief up at the stars Why can’t things be the way they should? It will be another life yet Another time better spent When the lion Shall lie down with the lamb And the creatures on the land Will feed easy from your hand You’re either with life or it’s against you I say we strike out now I say we strike out now I say we strike out now And what a thing is the heart of man How weirdly seen the ice these days And that his life is nowt but a dream Has been sensed by more than one Cheap Pound-shop would be visionary Who plunders prophecy from the air! And I too, I must admit I am never free of the feeling That fate is somehow stealing The wise and fragile egg nestled in our foolish heart It is not easy to find the agreeable circumstances That gladdens mans souls altogether I say we strike out now I say we strike out now I say we strike out now You, you divine fool you You, you, you divine fool
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OH WHAT A THING THIS HEART OF MAN Angels might have lived the life Flesh and blood could not You with all your human failings Stance a tumble senses derailing Hurling grief up at the stars Why can’t things be the way they should? It will be another life yet Another time better spent When the lion Shall lie down with the lamb And the creatures on the land Will feed easy from your hand You’re either with life or it’s against you I say we strike out now I say we strike out now I say we strike out now And what a thing is the heart of man How weirdly seen the ice these days And that his life is nowt but a dream Has been sensed by more than one Cheap Pound-shop would be visionary Who plunders prophecy from the air! And I too, I must admit I am never free of the feeling That fate is somehow stealing The wise and fragile egg nestled in our foolish heart It is not easy to find the agreeable circumstances That gladdens mans souls altogether I say we strike out now I say we strike out now I say we strike out now You, you divine fool you You, you, you divine fool

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Radio Joy DD04 digital download single
www.radiojoy.co.uk

The Band of Holy Joy continues the surge of activity and inspiration since the “Paramour” album with the new download single (available from January 7th). Johny Brown’s singing and lyrics are as dramatic as ever, with an irresistible chorus, “I say we strike out now”. The music builds tension and surges into release, driven by Chris Brierley’s soaring violin, enhanced by guests Clive Bell on flute and David Barbenel’s cello. If you like “Veedon Fleece” era Van Morrison or early-ish Waterboys, you must hear this. Coming from the extended Radio Joy play, “The North is Another Land“, this is another litmus test of the encroaching darkness and how we respond to it.
[Den Browne, Mudkiss, December 2010]

Guest vocals by Marianne Hyatt.
Cover design by Inga Tillere.

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released January 7, 2011

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Band Of Holy Joy London, UK

Margin walkers and midnight drifters, Band of Holy Joy have wandered liminal landscapes of their own making for 3 decades now. The weirdness and wildness of the landscape they stagger through, the askew vision like a crash between Coleridge, Brecht and David Peace, the literary allusions and poetry, the strangeness of it all. A cultural piracy raiding doomed melancholy and gentrified mediocrity. ... more

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