It penetrates the psyche
\nWith its slow and wicked gait
\nUnrighteous and iniquitous
\nIt just feels like a date
\nWith guilt and culpability
\nBack in the time before
\nA pilgrim family in New ENgland
\nWho found themselves at war<\/p>\n
With the church and so were banished
\nTo a far off wilderness
\nTo a plot of land
\nAnd a forest
\nWhere their overall convictions
\nDoubled up creating stress
\nThe horror of each moment
\nSlowly introduced as we
\nWere drawn into their battle
\nTo their dark depravity<\/p>\n
Failure of their crops
\nAnd a frustration born of Hell
\nHow innocence in the wrong hands
\nHow compunction and remorse
\nHow defilement of ones character
\nCan be a driving force
\nThomasin the youthful girl
\nWas able somehow to
\nWithstand the family pressure
\nWhich followed her all through<\/p>\n
The prejudice of religion
\nAnd sanctity of soul
\nAnd when one night the infant
\nMysteriously took its role
\nTo vanish to the torrid tears
\nAnd the evil of the mind
\nThat seeks to condemn the innocent
\nAnd which slowly does unwind<\/p>\n
The drama is intense the mood is dark
\nAnd overall
\nThe script and the direction
\nAnd the music builds to fall
\nRobert Eggers clearly makes his case
\nAnd we all feel
\nAs the horror builds and terror wields
\nIt’s impossible to conceal<\/p>\n
The animals become a darkly force
\nA babe is lost for sure
\nThe son is soon possessed of spirits
\nHis purity undone
\nFound naked at the doorway
\nSuspicion tears their hearts
\nwItchcraft and their daughter
\nAs Retribution starts<\/p>\n
Within this Puriton family
\nReligion through and through
\nNow being plagued by scapegoats
\nIt’s what the mind can do
\nThe prejudice of ignorance
\nThe hysteria of shame
\nThe temporal fear and loathing
\nThat comes out of any flame<\/p>\n
The sound effects the mind at play
\nThe witch of the wood perhaps
\nIt’s always easy to chastise those
\nWho may have been under wraps
\nBut now are coming out let’s say
\nAnd Sexually they are
\nExperiencing those changes
\nThe excitement which is far
\nRemoved from those beyond this
\nThose feelings those desires
\nThat may denigrate the faithful
\nAnd re kindle pious fires<\/p>\n
Treachery and terror it all becomes a test
\nAnd unremitting study of sorcery at best
\nIt was faithfully created everything in place
\nHistorically before the Salem Witch Trials
\nBut the pace
\nWas slow and unremitting it was torture in many ways
\nPresbyterianism and it’s prejudices flying in the face
\nA kind of undercurrent bringing witches to the fore
\nGrappling with this serpent unfairly and whats more
\nCracking down on the alchemy the fusion of the spent
\nWhere theocracy doth champion and the pagan must relent<\/p>\n
Now I will watch tHe film again in the cold light of day
\nAnd write it up again I had only had perhaps half an hour of it and was very tired<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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