The Scarlet Tide

About The Scarlet Tide

"The Scarlet Tide" is a song written by T-Bone Burnett and Elvis Costello and performed by Alison Krauss from the 2003 film Cold Mountain According to Costello, Burnett "always said 'Scarlet Tide' was an anti-fear song."The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media. In 2004, a new version of the song performed by Elvis Costello and Emmylou Harris appeared as the closing track on the Costello album The Delivery Man. Joan Baez included the song on her 2008 album Day After Tomorrow. more »

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2004

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The accused will rise to be torn in two
Guilty of nothing but loving you
This is the judgment

And I'm willing to plead
How you don't want me
Hoping this torment will cease
Will I be released

There'll be lies, there'll be tears
A jury of your peers
With a pitiful lack of experience
Hand down the judgment

And if I done wrong
And loved you too long
Stand up and just testify
How can I deny

Objection overruled
I wait for my reprieve
With the trust of the deceived
The wisdom of the fool

It's his sorrowful face
Too heavy for his head
'Cause he bowed it as something come over him
It was the judgment

He falls to his knees
Have mercy on me
He clings to the hem of her gown
She says, "Just take him down."

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Elvis Costello

Elvis Costello (born Declan Patrick MacManus, 25 August 1954) is an English singer-songwriter. He began his career as part of London's pub rock scene in the early 1970s and later became associated with the first wave of the British punk/New Wave movement of the mid-to-late 1970s. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader than that of most popular songs. His music has drawn on many diverse genres; one critic described him as a "pop encyclopaedia", able to "reinvent the past in his own image". more »

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