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this fear of gods


composers
Lyrics: Kerr
Music: Simple Minds


publisher
© EMI Music Publishing


background
Jim would recall that This Fear Of Gods was inspired by a same-titled short story in Jorge Luis Borge's Labyrinths: "One of those stories, 'This Fear Of Gods', tells of a man who waited for God for century upon century. He had an absolute faith in God's eventual arrival, but God let him down. Eventually he does arrive, in the shape of a large bird. By then, the man has lost his illusions, and he shoots the bird. He shoots his God! The gods have not left us, we killed them."

However, that book doesn't feature a short story called This Fear Of Gods!

This lengthy closing track on the first side of the album, This Fear Of Gods became a fairly obscure number, only featuring live during the end of the Real To Real Cacophony tour and the start of the Empires And Dance 1980 tour.




lyrics
Someone singing in the shower.
Someone singing in the shower.
Singing, singing, singing,
Singing shower.
Someone's singing in the shower.

I hear a voice and hear no angel.
I hear a voice and hear no angel.
Hero see no, hero see no,
Hero see no,
Hear and see no,
Hear a voice and see no angel.

Violence and vivisection.
Violence and vivisection.
Lust, lust, lust,
Lust, lust, lust.
Violence and vivisection.

Gods.
Gods.
This fear of Gods.

Some boys are calling,
Boys are crying.
Some boys are calling,
Boys are crying.
Calling, calling, calling,
Crying.
Calling, calling, calling,
Crying.

Fear is fast,
I'm turning white now.
Fear is fast,
I'm turning white now.
Faster, faster, faster,
Faster, faster, faster.
Fear is fast.
I'm turning white now.

Gods.
Gods.
This fear of Gods.

I'm back on black,
Fear of Gods.
Back on black


discography
Album Version (7:00)
Producer: Leckie
Engineer: Jones

 Empires And Dance LP Empires And Dance MC Empires And Dance LP (Virgin Reissue) Empires And Dance MC (Virgin Reissue) Empires And Dance CD Empires And Dance LP (Virgin Budget Reissue) Empires And Dance MC (Virgin Budget Reissue) Empires And Dance Remaster Promo CD Empires And Dance Remaster Limited Edition CD Empires And Dance Cacophony Remaster CD



live history
Real To Real Cacophony Tour: 1979-1980
Empires And Dance Tour: 1980
Sons And Fascination Tour: 1981