Name: Heroin for the World
Duration: P00H04M50S
Description: A radio station told me they couldn't play this song because of the lyrics. Just to clarify, this is a song about the climate catastrophe and uses the drug reference to illustrate how bad things are.

Heroin for the World

from The Exiled EP by Gentle Ihor's Devotion

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A radio station told me they couldn't play this song because of the lyrics. Just to clarify, this is a song about the climate catastrophe and uses the drug reference to illustrate how bad things are.

lyrics

Late one night I’m dreaming, that the world and me are meetin’
It announces gangs are scheming, to treat it with disdain
I lay my hands upon it and ask it to explain
It tells me sores are burnin’ but nobody knows to care
I ask it where the hurt is, and it cries out 'everywhere!'

It strips down to an abscess, calling god as witness,
Confirming diagnosis, we seek to treat the sickness
It tells me, ‘use your wisdom, to succour me with quickness
all my bones are broken, and the bruising black as sin’
I ask it what the cure is, and it whispers 'heroin…'

I wake up in the morning, remembering what we spoke
Outside prayers are calling for the nations without hope
And on my street a homeless man is hanging up a rope
A scribbled sign next to his tin says ‘The healing must begin’
I ask him what his need is, and he begs for heroin…

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from The Exiled EP, released November 16, 2023

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Gentle Ihor's Devotion Leeds, UK

Formed in the 1980s. Their 12 inch single 'Naked' was single of the week in Melody Maker. Signed to TUG REC in Germany. Lead singer Gentle Ihor is solo now collaborating with various musicians.

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