I was Once a Humble Priest

In the same instrument of piano, this song is the continuation of the tale, I am a Humble Priest. These are the only two songs in the entire album that are connected. The Iron Law catches wind of the old priests illegal deeds of helping people rather than stealing their pennies, and burn down his chapel. The echoing sadness and loneliness felt in this song is prevalent and dire. This causes the holy man with only the gray robe on his back to be beaten nearly to death by Justices before being thrown out onto the street to die. In the winter snow, he stumbles and struggles along tar-ridden alleys, surviving only on moldy bread, getting robbed, and slumbering in crates. Eventually to escape the cruel world, he slinks into the dark of a charred house, and lives alone in a basement waiting for death to free them. Lonely and afraid, Unknown time passes, but the man soon starts to go mad and forgets his name, desiring the world to not remember him anymore. At some point, straggling starving children, both abandoned and disabled, wander into the basement for safety. For many years he loves, tends, telling stories, and cares for these helpless boys and girls, barely able to survive. Then someone, with red flame hair and bright green eyes appears one chilly autumn day, and saves the man’s aching heart. 

From Album: Tales of a Time Before Volume II

Type: Single Song

Instrument: Piano

Length: 11 min

Genre: Sad\Storytelling\Classical\Fantasy

File Type: MP4 

Composer and Lyricist: Jack Buie