They Screamed Your Name (Live)

by Sojourn Soul

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This is a song I wrote while performing as a solo act. I was heavy into the southern gothic scene both in what I was reading and listening to when I wrote this, and that comes across clearly in the lyrics. When the one-man-band gothic punk acoustic-rock revival project started giving way to the more harmony driven Sojourn Soul project I decided to update the song, giving it a bit more atmosphere.

The mindset I was in when writing this song isn't something I'd like to revisit, but I'm told that this packs a punch, and I'm proud to have written it for that fact alone. This song has been an evolving project for a while as new band members join and we adjust to bring out everyone's strengths, and while this version does not include our pianist (as he hadn't joined the band yet) it's still a product I'm both happy and proud to put out there.

- Dustin

lyrics

They Screamed Your Name

Grown up in the cane fields
planted firmly in the filth
Just like an alder raised up
only to cut down for the wood
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Black soot and ash silhouette
Unsafe semblance of a home
You’d spent the whole night crying
In that big house, all alone
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Tightly tucked away
In that back closet from the screams
Every rotten word in anger
Tore you roughly at the seams
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Papa sparked a coldness in your eyes
They’d never even known
That the bitterest of evils
Lives beyond the flames, alone
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(Chorus)
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Flames rising in the kitchen
Dancing shadows on the wall
Like mama’d always told you
No one can hear you call
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Smoke poured in through the hallway
Papa choking on his knees
Polaroids on the wall
Turned to smoke, blown away in the breeze
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(Chorus) x 3
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Crying, as you finally heard your name.
Chorus:
But you’d waited for the sun
And you’d waited through the rain
You’d waited but the daylight never came.

So you took that book of matches
And that tank of gasoline
Smiling as they finally screamed your name

credits

released September 5, 2018
Dustin Saksek - Guitar and Vocals
Elizabeth Anne - Vocals and tambourine
Derek V. - Accordion

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