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The Holy Innocent

from Different Stories by Anubis

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about

'The Holy Innocent' may be Anubis' anthem.

When we released 'A Tower of Silence' in 2011, a fortuitous placement of the original track on the cover CD of Prog Magazine doubled the sales of the album and exposed us to a whole new group of fans we'd not met when we released 230503.

The album shot up the Progarchives chart, the German distributor's chart and the album shipped 200 copies in 3 days which for an unknown band from Sydney was completely crazy. To this day, 'A Tower of Silence' is seen by some as our 'masterpiece' and is regularly requested when we play in Europe. On the 2018 tour, we're honouring that request and playing the whole thing in Nieuwerkerk.

The song itself is comprised of three pieces of Robbie's and one of mine which we glued together. It was written mostly in about 2008/2009 usually between 1am and 5am. The idea to add the sax came fairly late in the day while we were tracking the song for the album and we got our mate Martyn to come and have a blow. The solo that we captured that night probably did more to help our cause than anything.

Thankfully, we're very happy to report that Martyn - after a leave of absence - returns to Anubis for this recording to reprise his role with a variation on that solo.

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Robbie - Lead Voice, Frog, Percussion
Dave - Pump Organ, Hammond Organ, Piano, 12-String Guitar, Voice
Dougie - 12-String and 6-String Guitar, Voice
Dean - 12-String and 6-String Guitar, Voice
Anton - Electric Bass
Steve - Drums, Voice
Martyn Cook - Tenor Saxophone Solo

lyrics

When I passed away
My soul did not escape
I believed the words I heard
Wanted life to change

I feel alone
There is no use in hiding
I feel, my soul,
You have been misguiding
I dream a dream that has no sound
As I lay still beneath the ground

I am the holy innocent
As love speaks it makes no sound
And this one you put aside
No longer wants to hide
I cant tell what I did wrong

I want to hear your voice
Calling out my name
With your words I’m paralysed
I need to hear them all the same

I broke no hearts
Yet I’m punished here forever
I wait, enraged
We need to be together
It's in the dream that has no sound
As I lay still beneath the ground

I’ve lived inside this cage
As I lived upon the earth
It's hard for me to see
Which world has been the worst?

In time I see
That there is no point in changing
You don't want me
Too late for rearranging
This dream I dreamed that has no sound
As I lay still beneath the ground

And the bell takes its toll
And the field felt so cold
As I prayed my life away
I begged for the lights of change
But you never took my hand
As I wait for this world to end
Is this my final resting place?
Such a tragic waste of this holy innocent

credits

from Different Stories, released May 23, 2018
Originally written by Robert James Moulding/David Eaton/Dean Bennison/Douglas Skene/Steven Eaton and Martyn Cook

This arrangement by Moulding/Eaton/Eaton/Skene/Bennison/Stewart/Cook

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Anubis Sydney, Australia

Anubis is a cinematic Progressive Rock band from Sydney, Australia. Formed in 2004.

The band has released to date 6 studio records to date, 2 live albums and toured Europe twice. The latest album, ‘Homeless’ reached number 4 in the Australian Indie chart in March 2020. ... more

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