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Charli XCX has collaborated with John Cale on new track 'House' for the 'Wuthering Heights' soundtrack - and there's an entire album coming
It's part of a whole album set for release in early December.
Nov 7, 2025 • 11:18 AM
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"There Was a Saviour Interlude I" is a track by John Cale, from the album Words for the Dying, released 1989. The track is 9:36 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about John Cale.
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There was a saviour Rarer than radium Commoner than water, crueler than truth Children kept from the sun Assembled at his tongue To hear the golden note turn in a groove Prisoners of wishes locked their eyes In the jails and studies of his keyless, keyless smiles (uhh) The voice of children says From a lost wilderness "There was calm to be done in his safe unrest When wondering man hurt Man, animal or bird We hid our fears in the murdering breath Silence, silence to do, when the earth grew loud In lairs and asylums of the tremendous shout" (oh) There was glory to hear In the churches of his tears Under his downy arm, you sighed as he struck Oh, you who could not cry On to the ground when a man died Put a tear for joy in the unearthly flood And laid your cheek against a cloud-formed shell Now in the dark there is only yourself Yourself, yourself, yourself, yourself and myself Two proud, blacked brothers cry Winter-locked side by side To this inhospitable hollow year Oh, we could not stir One lean sign, not even one lean sign when we heard Greed on man beating near and fire neighbor But wailed and nested in the sky-blue wall Now break a giant tear for the little, little, little, little known fall (uhh) For the drooping of homes That did not nurse our bones Brave deaths of only ones but never found Now see, alone, now see alone in us, alone in us Our own true stranger's dust Ride through the doors of our unentered house Exiled in us, we arouse the soft Unclenched, armless, silk and rough love that breaks all rocks
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