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This tells the simple story of a young country boy who makes his way to the city after being told that only there can he find artistic and personal fulfillment. That's a lie, but he believes it anyway and once arrived in the city he easily succumbs to the glamour and charms of a hard city woman full of the false promises and smiles of that kind that. That boy was innocent but as everyone knows there is nothing so delicious to the decadent than the moral corruption of an innocent young child. This then is that boy’s votive to city women and their places of living. Let us all learn from the lesson he teaches in psalm 151.

She calls my name in a strange land. She doth prevail when my spirit is sore in need of passion. She taketh me from myself and leadeth me along the paths of the Holy City and I behold the glory that is the city and unto its temple I do make my covenant for I will worship the names of the prophets that are inscribed on the walls there and be without a god no more.

And yay! she teacheth me to sing the praises of the city and rejoice in its bounty. She deviseth new ways of devotion for me and lo, how I tremble when her voice calls me to bed.

Surely I have found what all men seek, my redemption comes with the giving of her sanctuary. I can be afraid no more.

And the truth... Oh Lord, the truth is shoddy! Though my sperm leapeth like salmon, my spirit lies broken and corrupt for she speaks the names of the Beast and vile iniquity hath dominion in her house.

And I will carry the weight of my knowledge forever for the unknowable has been shown to me and I know, oh god I know where it is I go when I die.

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from Take the Stage EP, released December 12, 2021

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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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