Bij Cork denken we, bijna vanzelfsprekend, aan prachtige muziek. Zoals bijvoorbeeld van Mick Flannery. En niet te vergeten van Sean William Murphy, oftewel All the Queen’s Horses. Prachtig, stemmig, verdrietig. Verdere vergelijkingen? Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Bright Eyes en Damien Rice.
I wrote this song as an allegory to The Ides of March and all the turbulence, mischance and omens that surround the Ides of March (March 15th the 74th day in the Roman calendar). It was notable for the Romans as a deadline for settling debts. It was the date Julius Caesar was stabbed to death which then also triggered a civil war. The date is synonymous with a myriad of significant unfortunate events, bad luck & bad omens
The song is very simple. I tried to create a situation with someone who has always had a lot of trouble, bad luck and misfortune who carries it to others who have had to carry him who he thinks can and will help him and are like him ‘’You’d bleed like me….I was told’’. I tried to show the devastating effect mischance, debt and conflict has had on their lives and how they had to pay for their crimes forming the Ides of March an endless sea of bad luck and bad luck and bad luck.
