Nick Songs

Song Of Joy

Song of Joy was one of the first songs written for the album Murder Ballads. Because of the many specific references that Nick make to the works of John Milton, it's believed that this song was used to make up for the fact that no one caught the Milton references in Red Right Hand.

Song Information

Released on the Album: Murder Ballads

Album Art Lyrics

Song Information
Released on the Album: Murder Ballads
Album Art	Lyrics

Reviews and Articles

Posted To Goodson:
From Rocksound, April 1994:

Rocksound: Do you intend to work with other artists ? [the previous question was about Nick's collaboration with Shane McGowan]
NC: I plan to ask Kylie Minogue to sing a song I wrote thinking about her. We're going to release a "sous-genre" EP of folk music that will be called Murder Ballad and this song will be on it. It's a very slow and very sad song, almost morbid, that tells the story of an innocent young girl who's been murdered. I love Kylie Minogue, her voice, her character. For this EP, I also wrote a very violent song that lasts 15 minutes. It's about a man who comes in a bar, kills all the customers and tells each time down to the smallest detail how he kills them. The third song [Song of Joy] will be the story of a man who murders his whole family, and this murderer finally happens to be the narrator himself.

Posted To Goodson:
From: Jessie:
The last Milton quote from "Song of Joy", "The sun to me is dark/And silent as the moon" is not from "Paradise Lost", it's from "Samson Agonistes", as I discovered today.

Reviews and Articles
Posted To Goodson: From Rocksound, April 1994: Rocksound: Do you intend to work with other artists ? [the previous question was about Nick's collaboration with Shane McGowan] NC: I plan to ask Kylie Minogue to sing a song I wrote thinking about her. We're going to release a "sous-genre" EP of folk music that will be called Murder Ballad and this song will be on it. It's a very slow and very sad song, almost morbid, that tells the story of an innocent young girl who's been murdered. I love Kylie Minogue, her voice, her character. For this EP, I also wrote a very violent song that lasts 15 minutes. It's about a man who comes in a bar, kills all the customers and tells each time down to the smallest detail how he kills them. The third song [Song of Joy] will be the story of a man who murders his whole family, and this murderer finally happens to be the narrator himself.
Posted To Goodson: From: Jessie: The last Milton quote from "Song of Joy", "The sun to me is dark/And silent as the moon" is not from "Paradise Lost", it's from "Samson Agonistes", as I discovered today.

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