The Priest and the Matador
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| "The Priest and the Matador" | ||
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| Single by Senses Fail | ||
| from the album Still Searching | ||
| Released | TBD | |
| Format | Digital download | |
| Recorded | 2006 | |
| Genre | Rock, pop punk, screamo | |
| Length | 4:21 | |
| Label | Vagrant Records | |
| Writer(s) | Buddy Nielsen | |
| Producer(s) | Brian McTernan | |
| Senses Fail singles chronology | ||
| "Can't Be Saved" (2007) |
"The Priest and the Matador" (2007) |
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"The Priest and the Matador" is a song by Senses Fail from the 2006 album, Still Searching. It is slated for release as the band's third single from the CD.
[edit] Description
The thirteenth and final track on the CD, the song is in many way the culmination of the CD. In the eleventh track, "All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues", the point of view character leaps from a building, attempting to kill himself, as a leitmotif from Can't Be Saved plays. The twelfth track, an instrumental track, "Negative Space", serves as a bridge between the two songs.
[edit] Song summary
The point of view character lies crumpled on the ground as people around him react to his fall. He rejects the last rites offered by a priest, and the spiritual prayer offered by another man, to the repeated theme, "I'm the arrow, shot straight to Hell, from the bow of William Tell." At last, as the ambulance arrives, blood flows from his mouth and he expires, hearing the medic begin to state "The time of death is half past six." (since the hands of a clock would point almost directly downwards at this time, the time echoes the "arrow shot straight to Hell" imagery.)
[edit] Video writing competition
In February, 2007, the band, on its website, announced that the video for the song would be selected from fan entries. The contest ran from March 1, 2007 to March 14, 2007.[1]]
| Senses Fail | |
| Buddy Nielsen | Garrett Zablocki | Mike Glita | Dan Trapp | Heath Saraceno | |
| Dave Miller | James Gill | |
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| Discography | |
| Albums: Let It Enfold You | Still Searching | |
| EPs: From the Depths of Dreams | |
| Singles | |
| “Bloody Romance” | “Buried A Lie | “Rum Is For Drinking, Not For Burning” | “Calling All Cars” | "Can't Be Saved" | "The Priest and the Matador" | |
| Other articles | |
| Damon Atkinson| One Eight Seven |
