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Beat Down by Heaven

from WAR by I Speak Machine

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about

No record about mental turmoil would be complete without a prod to the ribs of Catholicism. I fearfully attended Catholic church as early as I can remember, and looking back, I find it utterly fascinating and horrible what it did to my development as a child & into my teen years, and how my head was figuratively “held under water” for many years, & I feel I was barely able of independent thought for a very long time. "Street smart" I was not.

I was forever feeling the dissonance of “if I don't go to church & confession I’ll go to hell, I’m terrified” versus “”this is bullshit - I’m out” - a dissonance I applied to myself later in life with addiction.. This song is an ode to how terrorized & confused I was by religion, and the resulting shame & anxiety. “In your body/ do you want me/ Tell me priestess/ do you want this” is the sensual, curious voice I wish I had been able to embrace instead of fear as a preteen & young adult.

lyrics

Crawl on hot coals
Walk on water
Bathe me hellfire
Take this girl higher

In your body
do you want me?
Tell me priestess
is this my wish?

Beat down by heaven
Damn your hellfire

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from WAR, released April 22, 2022
Written by Tara Busch

Produced by Tara Busch & Dean Honer

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