A Live 18 🩸 Pádraic H. Pearse - Why do ye torture me (Producer's Cut)

from the project 🩸 Live Concert Dedication to Pádraig Pearse (2126), where android performers reinterpret Irish poems by Pádraig Anraí Mac Piarais - also known as Patrick Henry Pearse (10 November 1879 - 3 May 1916), an Irish teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist, republican political activist, and revolutionary who was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916. Following his execution, along with fifteen others, Pearse came to be seen by many as the embodiment of the rebellion. LYRICS: [Instrumental Intro] [Verse 1] Hunting me as a poor deer would be hunted on a hill, A poor long-wearied deer with the hound-pack after him. There's no ease to my paining in the loneliness of the hills, But the cry of the hunters terrifically to be heard... [Chorus] O ravening hounds, long is your run! O ravening hounds, long is your run! [Verse 2] Torturing me and paining me by day and by night? Hunting me as a poor deer would be hunted on a hill... The cry of my desires haunting me without respite,— O ravening hounds, long is your run! [Chorus] O ravening hounds, long is your run! O ravening hounds, long is your run! [Bridge] For the satisfaction I desired yesterday is no satisfaction, And the hound-pack is the greedier of the satisfaction it has got,— No satisfying can come to my desires while I live! No satisfying can come! [Final Chorus] Why are ye torturing me, O desires of my heart ? Torturing me and paining me by day and by night? Why are ye torturing me, O desires of my heart ? Torturing me and paining me by day and by night? [Outro Chant] And forever I shall not sleep till I sleep in the grave. And forever I shall not sleep till I sleep in the grave. [Instrumental Outro]