MARILLION Script For A Jester's Tear (Live at Hammersmith, 1983) [HQ]

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Marillion
"Script for a Jester's Tear"
Live at Hammersmith Odeon, London
18 April 1983
Video URL: https://youtu.be/lyE8CZw3rWE

"Script For A Jester's Tear" works its way through a series of neck hair-raising highs, starting with the gorgeously rich bass entry, and never stops working through the story of the artist exploring his emotions after the break up of a relationship in which the protaganist suffers deeply from unrequited love, and even describes the process of writing a song about it "I act the role in classic style of a martyr carved with twisted smile - to bleed the lyric for this song, to write the rites to right my wrongs - An epitaph to a broken dream, to exorcise this slient scream...". All this over a winding bass line and light keyboard melody - and the word "scream..." is delivered in a muted, gasping fashion, making this a very powerful passage. But there's more power and drama to come - just listen.
(Progarchives, review by Certif1ed)

- Fish – vocals
- Steve Rothery – guitars
- Mark Kelly – keyboards
- Pete Trewavas – bass, backing vocals
- Mick Pointer – drums