Turn to Stone (Song for Medusa)

from Full Circle by Joshua Hall

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The story of Medusa has disturbing Patriarchal and White Supremacy roots. A beautiful black woman is raped by a White God and is Punished by a jealous White Goddess. The symbol of the snake was once revered and with the advent of Christianity turned into a symbol of evil. The beheading of Medusa is how our relationship to the earth has be severed and our women oppressed.

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This is the story of disembodied knowledge of our severed connection to the earth and the subjugation of women as told through classic myth

She was a virgin taken against her will, violated and defiled at the temple on the hill, A God among men, he committed rape, but she was punished for his crime and could not escape

She was free of sin, flawless and fair, it was the color of her skin and the curl of her hair. The Goddess was jealous, pleas meet with scorn, her final judgement: Banish and Transform

Turn men to stone (3x's)
Couldn't leave her alone

Living alone an outcast she's feared and reviled, no man who ever enters ever leaves her statue garden, imprisoned, disfigured, her only crime being female, He walks Free, I've heard this Goddamned tale

And the story goes he's rich and debonaire, it was the cut of her clothes and her shapely derriere, society's conditioned to think she's a whore, final judgment is Banish and Transform

Turn men to stone (3x's)
Couldn't leave her alone

she didn't bring it upon herself that's a lame excuse to blame someone else for man's lack of self-control cause he's never held accountable.
This story's thousands of years old and you'd think we'd learn by now that the evil that men do needs to stop.

she's cast as the villain and we're taught to hate her, she's covered with snakes and he beheads her.

She was free of sin, flawless and fair, it was the color of her skin and the curl of her hair. The Goddess was jealous, pleas meet with scorn, her final judgement: Banish and Transform

Turn men to stone (3x's)
Couldn't leave her alone

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from Full Circle, released May 12, 2020

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Joshua Hall West Windsor, Vermont

Described as a Zen-Metal-Freak-Jazz Guru, I am a classically trained guitarist whose playing style owes as much to Barrios and Tarréga as Mustaine and Monk.

I am an Alternative Folk Artist whose songs engage the listener to feel and think deeply, to find the reverence in everyday life, and to question the stories that define so much of the modern world ... more

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