Music
Sympathy Run Time: 5:26
Written by Bill Mallonee for Russachugama Music and CyBrenJoJosh (BMI) ©1994
you could live in the shadows
you could call them your friends
but then all they'll allow you
is a scantily-clad skeleton
i anticipate your deep concern
believe me all my bridges burned
long ago i reveled in that loathsome deed
so from upper rooms and empty tombs
love's fallen down on me
so you see i do not need your sympathy
got a tongue like a serpent
and you speak with a hiss
and you lie through your gold teeth
and your friends they're pathetic
saw you out among the patients
when they took you all out for a walk
you tried to grab me through the chain link
but my dad says i really shouldn't talk
Did You Know?
This song was partly inspired by Bill's days working at an adult psychiatric hospital. Also, Bill described "Sympathy" as a Lutheran response to Satanic attack, inspired by the story of Martin Luther being held at Warburg Castle where he supposedly had visions. Bill says, "There's supposed to be a place on the wall where there is ink all over the wall from where he threw an inkwell at the Devil during one of these visits. Luther seemed to be very sensitive to that idea of struggling not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers." He says it is a song sung to Satan.
Appeared On…
- Welcome to Struggleville (1994)