This song is very special to me because when I first heard it, in 2015, I was coming to terms with my son's severe autism diagnosis, and this song helped me accept it. Like in the stages of grief where you go through denial, etc., until acceptance, the last stage.
This song was my permission of acceptance. I also hadn't played guitar or sang or written anything in about 15 years, and after listening to the whole album this song is on, Phantom Radio, I wanted to check back in with music. So I started writing and playing after a long mommy break.
All of the drawings in the video for this song are from my autistic son Dylan, who is 11 now in 2021. He draws about fifty of these a day. I grabbed a stack around Christmas for the video. My fellow autism parents, caregivers, and, of course, our special people, might relate to this unique journey.
Hey Mark Lanegan, you write incredible stuff, and you might be connecting with people where you least expect it. Thank you for your soul and song.
My sin, my sin is done and it won't be forgiven
I'm gone, I'm gone, gone where the wild people living
Gone where the wild, wild people living
So long alone, close to the bone
They kill the messenger
they kill the tax man waiting in line
they kill the passenger
where the train and the taxi collide
A holiday has come
My mind has escaped into hiding
I've shot away my life
Out where the wild people riding
Out where the wild, wild people riding
So long alone, close to the bone
Mama, mama please
please don't kill the messenger man
Mana, mama please
please don't kill the passenger man
On Saturday I'm sick
Sick with a virus descending
Burn Sunday to the quick
To the quick with a match on a mile long stick
My sin, my sin is done and it won't be forgiven
I'm gone, I'm gone, gone where the wild people living
Gone where the wild, wild people living
So long alone, close to the bone
Mama, mama please
please don't kill the messenger man
Mama, mama please
please don't kill the passenger man
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