flashback friday - lucretia my reflection

so, out in my garage, almost one entire wall is filled with shelves containing cds. i kid you not. admittedly, a number of those are mine, but the vast majority belong to the husband, who came into our marriage with so many cds that there just wasn't room inside a house for all of them (although, he might disagree with that assessment). the great thing about this collection is every time i ask him if we have a song prior to 2004 (which is the year we got ipods and thus stopped buying physical cds), he can find it for me, no problem.

such a fab music collection shouldn't go to waste, so i've decided to start a weekly meme called flashback friday, during which i'll highlight great songs from the past.

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recently, i was struggling with writer's block on codename: mo and told the husband, "i need angry, dark music that lots of bad things can happen to." within minutes, he came back with the sisters of mercy's floodland.

of course. lucretia my reflection was perfect. my characters were relieved to finally get their (literal) ass-kicking fight scene written. and i was happy to rediscover a song i hadn't heard in a long time.

back in the 80's, the sisters of mercy were the epitome of goth rock. angry and gloomy, their songs mixed strong bass lines with synths and lyrics that either blistered or depressed. lucretia my reflection (which may or may not reflect a diss on former band members) is no exception:

i hear the roar of a big machine
two worlds and in between
hot metal and methedrine
i hear empire down
i hear empire down

i hear the roar of a big machine
two worlds and in between
love lost, fire at will
dum-dum bullets and shoot to kill, i hear
dive, bombers and
empire down
empire down

i hear the sons of the city and dispossessed
get down, get undressed
get pretty, but you and me
we got the kingdom, we got the key
we got the empire, now as then
we don't doubt, we don't take direction
lucretia, my reflection, dance the ghost with me

we look hard
we look through
we look hard to see for real
such things i hear, they don't make sense
i don't see much evidence
i don't feel
i don't feel

i don't feel

a long train held up by page on page
a hard reign held up by rage
once a railroad
now it's done

i hear the roar of a big machine
two worlds and in between
hot metal and methedrine
i hear empire down

we got the empire, now as then
we don't doubt, we don't take reflection
lucretia, my direction, dance the ghost with me

(mp3) lucretia my reflection by sisters of mercy

the original video, in all its 80's glory:

buy floodland, the album lucretia my reflection is off of, HERE.