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Burn of God

by Mark Sheeky

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1.
Awake at 4am The terror of being alone There is nobody There is nothing You will seek it, love You will seek escape You will not resist The void is pain! The void is pain!
2.
God Infinity 06:50
Listen baby I'm behind that door in your mind, let me show you a good time. Let me soothe away the worries in your soul. Let my presence make you whole. For I am god infinity, the seed of everything and all ability. I command the universe, flower of star, of mind. Wow! This is exactly how I imagined! Fields and flowers of Elysium painted for your dreams. Nectar served by nymphs and butterflies... Is this what it seems? If you don't accept me I'll make you as nervous as a fly banging its head on the glass of life. Your guts will reach out for my voice in the night, don't they warm to what is right? This scenery looks a bit theatrical How do I know I'm not fooling myself? And how can perfection even exist in our imperfect world? Throw away your logic, feel the comfort of belief or forever feel alone. For I am god infinity, and you, are a part of me. I set you free to doubt me for I am love, hope embodied.
3.
Hello we've not met this is the voice of your dead great grandfather I bet, you thought you would never hear my voice I bet, you've never even thought of me before And does it make you cry that you'll be more forgotten than I? That your no children won't even notice when you die? Have you ever thought of me In your forty years of history? Well my son of son of son that's how remembered you'll be. I was born in the sepia days of coldness and hunger and I died achieving little of note except my son And does it make you weep that you have no soul for a god to keep? That you have no heaven to aspire to rest in when your life is done? Wouldn't it be better to pretend that it's going to be alright instead of facing the void at night?
4.
You will seek it, love
5.
The hour is upon us: Our Father who art in heaven Hallowed be thy name Thy kingdom come Thy will be done On earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses... In the beginning there was darkness and chaos And a breath came upon the chaos and created motion And the motion was flat and of a straight line Like a feather drawn across the plate surface of a lake of dark water The line was order and at its periphery grew curls Which twisted in upon themselves, devouring the chaos and giving it form And the form knew of itself and became god And the line became the spirit of god And god knew the darkness upon the face of the deep And the spirit of god knew the light of the line And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters And God said: "Let there be light!" Kyrie eleison! Christe eleison! Deus pater omnipotens eleison! Kyrie eleison! Christe eleison! Deus pater omnipotens eleison!
6.
Confession 03:12
Listen boys and girls we're gonna find out your sins today The eye of God is on you Watching everything you do Go there to that solemn place bow your head and pray think of all your bad deeds and beg forgiveness from the priest Jesus is giving Jesus is kind Always keep Jesus in your mind Jesus will cure you Of everything naughty But if you try to hide you're gonna get caughty Listen! Enter the confessional, kneel upon the floor everything is secret there every word is like a prayer tell the priest how bad you've been tell him every sin he'll write up a prescription a punishment to save your skin Bless me father for I have sinned It's been... some time.
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You will seek escape
9.
As I lay my body down to sleep I pray to God my soul to keep Should I die before I wake I pray to God my soul to take Sleep and rest your tired mind and dream of a better day our god dream of the people of your world who struggle for your love
10.
The night watchman becomes a woman, she is disturbed and sad, she is alone and knows that she will forever be so. She is pregnant, but with what? Will the animals be her friends or her devourers?
11.
A ballroom in the palace of skeletons I watch you dance and glist The banquet is rotted and bad The starving bones look on with avarice and I look into your empty eyes your gaze seems familiar it is me!
12.
Is there anybody there at all? And does anybody care about justice? Cos all I see is a wall And all I hear is nothing The void is pain!
13.
The Tree 05:13
I still believe in Orgonon, for there's something here inbetween the cells like a weeping weed in the velvet darkness. There's something here, a glitter of love, a reaching magnetism pervades. It's like a tree, connecting everything with energy, exchanging information and we are part of it. Each blink of atom who art in heavens reaches. They exist by feeling and by being felt. It's like a tree connecting everything with energy, exchanging information and we are part of it. Can you feel it? It's all around us.
14.
Riding Pi 03:32
I am Pi, lord of mathematics, skate with me along the curves of space and time.
15.
A damp day dark and bleak. A crow sends a note to a winter's sky, for I am dead today. See there the weeping few. In their minds I am alive and in their hearts I will forever be, and everything I've done is a part of the universe. Do you think I've missed out by not being in paradise when the living think of me so well? And would you be disappointed not to live in a garden of spring, or sad that the bad aren't in hell? In you I will live forever. Take care of my soul and my memory, for you are my heaven. Do not cry, for your friends will be your garden of love for you, when you die.
16.
Epilogue 03:12

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Over two years in development, Burn of God is a progressive concept album on the theme of religion, a depiction of a night of anxiety, an examining of the eternal questions of meaning and existence. This is my first album to use extensive vocals and includes greater use of live instruments than in my work to date, in many ways the album is the next logical step from Cycles & Shadows.

The project began as a series of solo piano works which aimed to depict a specific mood of darkness and emptiness, something like an Erik Satie nocturne. The music grew into a story with links to Ingmar Bergman's film Through a Glass Darkly. It was then that I knew I wanted to make a snapshot of religious belief as a unit, to explore the theme in a complete way.

The album is suffused with drama; thunder, choirs, organs and intense power, but is also, at times, meandering and searching. There are many musical influences here from Kate Bush, Roxy Music, and Scott Walker, to Satie and Handel, and even back to my earliest works and Jean-Michel Jarre. I also worked hard on the album imagery, to make an 8-page physical CD of artistry and beauty. For me now, physical music is very important, the art of the CD version of the album is as important as the totality of the album itself as an artwork. At a time where single tracks are short, and albums are rarely sold as complete artworks, I wanted to defy conventions; make rock music of symphonic scale and ambition.

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released April 15, 2022

Composed, produced and performed by Mark Sheeky.

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Mark Sheeky Crewe, UK

Mark Sheeky is a surrealist artist from the North of England. His music began as synth, game influenced, music then experimental classical piano and art rock/art pop, and surrealist rock music.

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