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Confession

by Sordid Ordeal

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‘Confession’ is the third single from Sordid Ordeal’s debut album ‘When I Left Town’ and their most orchestral effort to date. Featuring arrangements composed by the bands drummer and arranger Christian Irsh Schubert, the song harks back to the 70’s era of big production taking influence from the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Meat Loaf and Cold Chisel.
The swelling strings sail over the top of a still very gritty band, the screams, wails and feedback cutting through an otherwise reverent song
like a guillotine.
The song confronts personal growth in the face of a young love triangle and the struggle that comes with attempting to break away from a rigidly traditionalist past and painfully forge a new identity. A sense of duty collides with changing feelings, new passions and creates a complex web of self-loathing, doubt and uncertainty which ultimately leaves the question of “leave or stay” in the air.

lyrics

I’ve got no more time for you
Cause everything just moves too fast
And I’m treadin’ on a footpath
That reminds me of a face
Of everyone I knew
Blood ain’t on this page
And the leather pen just dries and cracks
And like an ice-cream in a kiln
I feel I’ve melted you away
And I don’t wontcher back
And now I’m on the train back home
I’m tired of mediocrity
Torn between fireworks and boredom
Wedding rings and drunken orgies
And I want it fucken all
I’m a letter in red pen
A salmon in my stream
I’m a selfish mother fucker
And I’ve taxed myself to death
My hobbies’ burnin’ Queens
Coal fallin’ from my mouth
Pretendin’ ta be diamonds
Wrapped in cookin’ foil
And splittin’ at the edge
Wither poison leakin’ out
And now I’m breakin’ down my walls
They builtem outta sandstone blocks
And they’re filled with stained glass windows
Weddings rings and crucifixes
And rosary beads around their necks
Exhausted from the search
Ta find the perfect sentiment
Pancake infidelity ate on
Southern picnic grass to the tune
Of Dale’s shredded voice

I’m a bandit on a train
I’m theft, I’m generosity
I’m a virgin, I’m a deviant
In Greeensborough at 5am
And I’m suppressin’ all the pain
And now I’ve slammed shut all the doors
On my church and family
On obedience, subordinance
Sobriety and monogamy
And the Wagga corridor
Chrissake I’m nearly nude
And I’m standin’ in the dock
With 7 billion judges
And one big fucken worm
And I’m still feelin’ hot
I’m sleepin’ in two beds
And both have different names
Ones’ jaded and decayed
Ones’ apple-fucken-tini
And both suck at charades
I’m dyin’ for one tree
And I want the other dead
So I’m gonna close my eyes
Pick and climb one to the top
With a rope around my neck

credits

released April 4, 2023
Written by Laurence Hewson

Laurence Hewson - Piano, guitars, vocals
Tim Emmanuel - Bass
Christian Irsh Shubert - Drums

Choral and Strings arrangement Christian Irsh Schubert and Laurence Hewson

Strings (The Sordchestra):

Kat O'Gotham
Satu Marjaana Aho
Hayley Anderson
Daniel 'Teddy' Tedford
Ben Scheir
Olga Lucia Rivera

Choir (The Tombstone Valentines):

Satu Marjaana Aho
Jacqueline Wong
Helen Hill
Natalie Reid
Jodi Smartgis
Karin Otto
Steve Burnett
Kent Borchard

Recorded by Dave Warner at Studio One.Be

Produced by Laurence Hewson, Dave Warner, Christian Irsh Schubert

Mixed by Brent Quirk

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Sordid Ordeal Melbourne, Australia

Sordid Ordeal are an Australiana stout rock band from Naarm. They combine folkish story-telling and
ballads with blistering, mangy rock and epic anthems, welding together both the abrasive & heavy
with the gentle & intimate.

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