The Dead Only Quickly
The Gothic Archies * Track #3 On Looming in the Gloom
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“The Dead Only Quickly” is a brief atheistic diddly originally released on The Gothic Archies' 1996 debut Looming in the Gloom and rerecorded and released four years later as a part of another Stephin Merritt project, The 6ths' Hyacinths and Thistles. The original recording had Merritt on vocals wi...
The Dead Only Quickly Annotated
[Verse 1]
Priests and fools say
We are but animate clay
We're crude vessels
Housing immortal souls
[Chorus]
But the dead only quickly decay
They don't go about being born and reborn
And rising and falling like soufflé
The dead only quickly decay
[Verse 2]
It would be swell
To see some folk burn in hell
But when they go
Its just as pleseant to know
[Chorus]
That the dead only quickly decay
They don't go about being born and reborn
And rising and falling like soufflé
The dead only quickly decay
The Dead Only Quickly Q&A
Who wrote The Dead Only Quickly's ?
The Dead Only Quickly was written by Stephin Merritt.
What did The Gothic Archies say about "The Dead Only Quickly"?
Composer Stephin Merritt selected “The Dead Only Quickly” as one of 15 of his songs he deemed autobiographical in “Stephin Merritt: My Life In 15 Songs,” an article in Rolling Stone. On this track, he said:
Having been raised by my mother, a Buddhist religious fanatic who literally doesn’t believe...