This song depicts the figure of Giles Corey his acts toward accusations of witchcraft (which he refused to plead guilty) and later submission to pressing during the Salem witch trials.
Smother his life, the words cut right to the heart
Disease and threaten my family name
An epic stand is made
Condemned I will not plead
I will not plead
Damned to the beast of torment
Damned by the beast within us all
Crushed by the fear
More stone, more stone
More weight for Corey
Not one step forth could capture amission of guilt
By law, avoids death on gallows hill
Through time this fight will martyr my name
My soul free of a heretic
Crushed by the fear
More stone, more stone
More weight for Corey
Court of Oyer and Terminer
Leave me my rightful land
Court of Oyer and Terminer
Leave me my rightful land
To stow in my heart, to leave to my sons
Peine forte et dure is called
An effort to collapse belief
Has failed, and surely will die with me
An epic stand is made
Condemned I will not plead
I will not plead
Damned to the beast of torment
Damned by the beast within us all
Rectify my name
Rectify my name
Rectify my name
Rectify my name
Rectify my name
Giles was written by Buz McGrath & Ken Susi & Trevor Phipps.
Giles was produced by Terry Date & Unearth.