Run! Christian, Run! Lyrics
"Bunf had a spate of being logged onto the internet most of the time, and he got heavily into doomsday cult websites, as an observer, not a participator. He printed out quite a lot of essays by these nutters, and I wrote the lyrics from there. And also when we were on tour in America we watched a lot of Christian television shows, the sort where preachers say 'It's not your money, it's God's money, so send in your cheques!'
"Cian had demo'd a repetitive theme with this loop that became the intro and outro, and I added a country rock verse, by which time Bunf had learnt the pedal steel. Bunf found the title and I started singing it on top of Cian's demo. Again we fancied ourselves as a vocal band.
"We approached one of the more interesting websites to do the film. The Ministry Of Truth are a couple called Armand Geddyn and his wife 'Malibu' Barbie Geddyn. It's quite a critical website, critical of organised religion. It's a heavy song, and you need Arma' Geddyn for a heavy song! It's followed by..."
what's everyone think of this song?
It's beautiful. I like the way that that same little sample Cian made plays throughout the whole song (though it gets distorted later on).
Wonderful!
This is my favorite sfa song! The electronics towards the end of the song are brilliantly programmed
The master of time in this track makes me uncontrollably happy.
edit: mastery
god these guys are something else, wish i knew Gaelic 2 :p
They're Welsh, not Irish.
They're Welsh, not Irish.
I totally hear "by your son" or variants thereof either replacing "by the sun" or sung with it.