D ie NWOBHM Legenden SAXON legen ihren Lyricclip zum Track `Witches of Salem` nach. Der Song entstammt dem aktuellen Langeisen ”Hell, Fire And Damnation“ auf dem SAXON sich historischen Themen widmen.
Biff Byford erklärt zum Song:
“This is an American story, but the witch trials started in Scotland, spread into England and across the sea to the colonies in America. Those poor women in Salem,they weren’t ‘witches’ more than just unfortunate women really, blamed for everybody’s ailments… whether your horse died, or the milk went sour, they blamed women. Maybe because they were jealous of them, or maybe it was because some guy had made some advances and she’d told him to piss-off, so he’d declare that she was a witch. And once a person was declared a witch, I don’t think there was any way back from that; very few of them were found innocent.”
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Lyrics:
In a sleepy quiet town, down Massachusetts way
The silence sudden broken by the chanting by the bay
Circling ‚round a woman accused of witchcraft
Take it down before the judge to hear the damning draft
See the flames of bigotry leaping ever higher
Someone has to pay the price to feed the rapture’s fire
Witches of Salem, burning at the stake
Witches of Salem, victims of the hate
Witches of Salem, unto Gallows Hill
Witches of Salem, they’re hungry for the kill
Accusations made, filled with weight and malice
Betraying friends and neigbours before the holy chalice
Standing trial before the mob, hysteria rules the day
Preaching fire and brimstone, there’s nothing you can say
See the flames of bigotry leaping ever higher
Someone has to pay the price to feed the rapture’s fire
Witches of Salem, burning at the stake
Witches of Salem, victims of the hate
Witches of Salem, onto Gallows Hill
Witches of Salem, they’re hungry for the kill
Hungry for the kill
Onto Gallows Hill
Woe betide the woman, who doesn’t seem to fit
All it took was just a word to take them to the pit
If you plead your innocence, you were taken to the trial
It didn’t matter what you say, they won’t believe denial
See the flames of bigotry leaping ever higher
Someone has to pay the price to feed the rapture’s fire
Witches of Salem, burning at the stake
Witches of Salem, victims of the hate
Witches of Salem, onto Gallows Hill (onto Gallows Hill)
Witches of Salem, they’re hungry for the kill
Witches of Salem, burning at the stake (burning at the stake)
Witches of Salem, victims of the hate
Witches of Salem, they’re hungry for the kill (hungry for the kill)
Witches of Salem, onto Gallows Hill
Photo Credit: Sven Bernhardt