LEAH HIRSIG [alternate version, previously unreleased]

from OUT OF THY STAR by The Ophelias

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Track: 2
Title: LEAH HIRSIG [alternate version, previously unreleased]
Authorship: James Wright
Publishing: BrowBeat Music, BMI
Recording date: December 1988
Recording place: Dancing Dog Studios, Emeryville, CA
Recording engineers: David Bryson & David Immerglück – 16 track
Running Time: 03:57
First appeared on Out of Thy Star, Bandcamp
Released 23 November 2020 [streaming only]

Particulars: A rough mix, this varies considerably – at least in terms of certain levels and tones – from the version released on The Big O [1989 LP]. A song written for The Ophelias by Medford’s friend and fellow Virginian James Wright, of Blue Druids fame.

Leslie Medford : vocals, tambourine
David Immerglück : electric guitar
Terry von Blankers : bass guitar
Edward Benton : drums

lyrics

LEAH HIRSIG

The walls have faces, not just ears.
And nothin’, no nothin’ is the same as it appears.
Now rivers run where silence used to be,
And thunder crash,
And that’s a symbol/cymbal with a capital C.
Night after night,
Sweet mother of the living light,
I come when you call,
And cherish your name.
And when you walk the wire
You claim the fire and blame the fool.
Honor and love are the same.

I never knowed your secret heart –
A hidden world so far apart –
And lookin’ on with a heavy hand
And all hot to harvest
The wages of sin.
Night after night,
Sweet mother of the living light,
I cum when you call,
And cherish your name.
And when you walk the wire
You claim the fire and blame the fool
When honor and slut are the same.

Night after night,
Sweet mother of the living light,
I come when you call,
And cherish your name.
And when you walk the wire
You claim the fire and blame the fool
When honor and slut are the same.

I wrap the night around me like a velvet robe,
And I stalk the stages like a starlit rogue.
And here today is gone tomorrow…
All the kindness left to borrow!
Night after night,
Sweet mother of the living light,
I come when you call,
And cherish your name.
And when you walk the wire
You claim the fire and blame the fool
When honor and love are the same.

--James Wright

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from OUT OF THY STAR, released November 23, 2020

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