Xavier
Dead Can Dance * Track #4 On Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
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Album Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
Xavier by Dead Can Dance
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Lisa Gerrard & Brendan PerryAbout
The fourth track from Dead Can Dance’s third album, Within the Realm of a Dying Sun, details the trials of one Roseanna Xavier, a fictional woman who is unjustly persecuted for unspecified (but subtly implied) reasons. Xavier makes for a tragic feminist heroine subjugated by the confines of a societ...
Xavier Lyrics
Fair Roseanna
Your vagrancy's a familiar tale
Fraught with danger
The lives you led were judged profane
Hatred enfolds us
Inculcates the minds with its heresy
Laymen enfold us
Clemency arrive to set you free
Faith, although Xavier has prayed
That life-giving waters may rain
Down on the souls of men
To cure them of their ways
These were the sins of Xavier's past
Hung like jewels in the forest of veils
Deep in the heart where the mysteries emerge
Eve bears the stigma of original sin
Freedom's so hard
When we are all bound by laws
Etched in the scheme of nature's own hand
Unseen by all those who fail
In their pursuit of fate
Faith, although Xavier has prayed
That life-giving waters may rain
Down on the souls of man
To cure them of their ways
And as the night turns into day
Will the sun illuminate your way
Or will your nightmares come home to stay?
Xavier's love lies in chains
These were the sins of Xavier's past
Hung like jewels in the forest of veils
Xavier Q&A
Who wrote Xavier's ?
Xavier was written by Lisa Gerrard & Brendan Perry.
Who produced Xavier's ?
Xavier was produced by John A. Rivers & Dead Can Dance.
When did Dead Can Dance release Xavier?
Dead Can Dance released Xavier on Mon Jul 27 1987.