Posted on 04/21/2023 11:32:02 AM PDT by nickcarraway
John Mellencamp will release his 25th album, Orpheus Descending, on June 25.
The singer and songwriter is previewing the 11-song set with album opener "Hey God." The nervy, slide guitar-driven song finds Mellencamp asking for deliverance from rampant gun violence.
"Weapons and guns, are they really my rights? / Laws written a long time ago / No one could imagine the sight of so many dead on the floor," he laments, before beseeching: "Hey, God, if you're still there, would you please come down? We can't take it anymore."
You can watch the lyric video for "Hey God" and see the full Orpheus Descending track listing below. The album is available to preorder now on CD, vinyl and digital.
John Mellencamp - Hey God (Official Lyric Video) Subscribe to Ultimate Classic Rock on
Orpheus Descending follows Strictly a One-Eyed Jack, which Mellencamp released in January 2022. The LP featured three collaborations with Bruce Springsteen, who also joined Mellencamp in a rousing tribute to the late Jerry Lee Lewis at the 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
Mellencamp also took to the podium at the Rock Hall inductions to celebrate entertainment lawyer Allen Grubman and explicitly condemn antisemitism. "I cannot tell you how XXXXin' important it is to speak out if you're an artist, against antisemitism, against all forms of hate speech," he said. "We're all human beings. I don't give a XXXX if you're Jewish, Black, white, tutti frutti, I don't care. Here's the trick: Silence is complicity. ... XXXX antisemitism and XXXX anybody who says anything in that manner."
John Mellencamp, 'Orpheus Descending' Track Listing
1. "Hey God"
2. "The Eyes of Portland"
3. "Land of the So Called Free"
4. "The Kindness of Lovers"
5. "Amen"
6. "Orpheus Descending"
7. "Understated Reverence"
8. "One More Trick"
9. "Lightning and Luck"
10. "Perfect World"
11. "Backbone"
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Not to worry Mr. Couger-Mellencamp, firearms do not commit crimes.
What a fag.
Hey God...
Can you do anything about these rich marxist celebrities that think the whole world thinks like them and have their own armed security?
They complain about guns, but what about the fact 90% of the psychiatric medication in the world is prescribed in the U.S.?
Never have much cared for his music......Appreciate his politics even less.
Embarrassed to be from the same state.
Fat people can blame the fork.
Remember the good old days, before gunpowder was invented, when nobody murdered anybody? Me neither.
Yes - even dummies like you.
Poser.
Trying to tour again this year after his loss of significance, this won’t help.
What an idiot.
Oh God please don’t make me listen to this dumb old libtard wail
So you'll forgive real America if we think our lives and our kids and our country are worth protecting with our God-given and Constitutionally protected 2nd Amendment rights.
I like it when people call him Mellenhead. Cue Beavis and Butthead.
Cain approves of your message.
Maybe he can sing song about sick ass libtard trannys shooting up schools
Shut up and sing assclown.
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