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An out-of-our-broom-closets-and-onto-our-brooms folk rock anthem for real Witches!
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An experienced Witch priestess and ritual artist, Lady Isadora is a critically-acclaimed singer-songwriter, guitarist, arranger, and producer. She was one of th
An experienced Witch priestess and ritual artist, Lady Isadora is also a critically-acclaimed singer-songwriter, guitarist, arranger, and producer. She was one of the early founders of the Wiccan-Pagan musical genre. All three of her classic recordings, *The Queen of Earth and Sky*, *Priestess of the Pentacle*, and *The Witching Hour), are scheduled for June 2005 re-release on CD. Isadora is a legally-ordained clergywoman of the Craft, a trustee of the Universal Federation of Pagans, a member of ASCAP and the international Fellowship of Isis, and has been a biographee in *The World Who’s Who of Women*. Following an absence of several years from the Pagan music scene due to family commitments and other aspects of her life and career, Isadora plans to make it up to her bewitched, bothered, and bewildered fans by releasing a series of long-awaited new albums and gigging as often as possible at festivals and other gatherings and events.
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World • New Age
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#9,725 today Peak #62
#1,496 in subgenre Peak #12
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Lady Isadora
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1990, 2005
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June 25, 2005
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MP3 4.7 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
Story behind the song
I wrote the following about this song in my album liner notes: “Witch! The very word resonates deep in the mind with power, passion, magic, mystery-- and controversy. It is one of the most profoundly evocative words in the English language. I speak it aloud as I write, and can feel in a twinkling the soft May grass beneath my feet as I dance, flower-crowned, in a green gown at Beltane, or the exhilarating chill of the smoky night air at Samhain as I stand all robed in black for the Crone, my tall pointed Witch’s hat a perfect cone of power in a magic circle about my head. At such times, flinging my arms wide open to the sky, long hair streaming in the wind that often seems to arise out of nowhere as if in meaningful emphasis, I feel almost as if I could take flight, as if anything magical might be made to happen at any moment. Such power is not of “the devil”; it is the heady awareness that in our veins and through our spirits flows the creative life-force of the Universe Itself, and that with it we can heal wounds, right wrongs, and make dreams come true.” (Copyright 1990, 2005 by Lady Isadora, reproduced with permission) “Witch” isn't only about my own experiences, but stands for all Witches, everywhere. The song simply wrote itself, as songs will happily sometimes do. As I recall, the melody and guitar riff came to me first, fully formed out of the blue; then the defiant out-of-our-broom-closets-and-onto-our-brooms lyrics, which I will allow to speak for themselves, magically appeared soon after. "Witch" was originally going to be all acoustic, but a rock guitarist friend thought it had just the right rhythm for rocking out a bit, so away we jammed and everything clicked right off, coming up with the recorded result fairly quickly.
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Why do you call yourself a Witch? Why do you dress yourself in black? Why don’t you use some other word And get the devil off your back?” I call myself a Witch because A Witch is what I am And like a Jew in Nazi Germany I don’t define my name To suit the Master Plan The Propaganda Man Never again! Never again! “Why do you call yourself a Witch? You know we just don’t understand People will think you’re sinister You know they’ll say your soul is damned!” I call myself a Witch because I don’t believe the lie That the Creator is a macho man Who wants to tell me what to do Until I die For pie in the sky That’s such a lie! That’s such a lie! I don’t believe in Satan He’s a poor excuse for Pan I’m a child of Holy Mother Earth And I’m gonna stand up to The Propaganda Man In every way I can “Why do you call yourself a Witch? Such a pretentious fantasy! Magic is just a childhood dream Come on and face reality!” I call myself a Witch because I’m not afraid to tell That the magic is in Life itself Not just in some ancient book Or secret spell And I know damn well That there’s no Hell Except the Goddess of that name No, the devil doesn’t turn me on, He’s too much of a chauvinist pig No self-respecting feminist Would be caught dead around A masculine ego that big “Why do you call yourself a Witch And talk of Witchcraft openly? Wicca’s a nice disguise to use* When you’re in mixed company” I call myself a Witch because There’s power in the word There’s power in the truth about What we really feel And who we really are Live by the Star And you’ll go far Yes, you’ll go far “Why do you call yourself a Witch?” Because a Witch is what I am! “Why do you call yourself a Witch?” Because a Witch is what I am! *As any good dictionary of Old English (Anglo-Saxon) will show, the original word wasn’t “Wicca” (male Witch) , but “Wiccecraeft.”
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