Released in 1991
Crypt - I Used to Come Here When This Place Was a Crypt
Written by Paul McCartney • Carl Davis
Last updated on July 10, 2019
Released in 1991
Written by Paul McCartney • Carl Davis
Last updated on July 10, 2019
Album This song officially appears on the Liverpool Oratorio Official album.
Timeline This song was officially released in 1991
Crypt - And So It Was That I Had Grown
Officially appears on Liverpool Oratorio
Officially appears on Liverpool Oratorio
Officially appears on Liverpool Oratorio
Officially appears on Liverpool Oratorio
Crypt - Now's the Time to Tell Him
Officially appears on Liverpool Oratorio
“I Used to Come Here When This Place Was a Crypt” is the third track of the third movement – entitled “Crypt” – of Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Oratorio, released in 1991.
III: CRYPT. 1959. Shanty, now a confused teenager, goes to a Church dance in the crypt; he doubts his and God’s existence. Here, Mary Dee materialises – still dreamlike – to him again. Still he cannot see her. As he sings of his vision of the future, Mary Dee breaks the news that his father has died. Shanty is left sad and alone.
“Liverpool Oratorio” liner notes
I used to come here when this place
was a crypt.
Now the music plays.
Oh don't you sometimes wish they'd stick
to the script
As the local preacher says.
Rain from heaven will blessings bring,
Behold the harvest grown.
Rain from heaven falls down on you,
But me, I feel alone.
PREACHER (sympathetically)
Alone.
SHANTY
Alone.
PREACHER
If they won't come to worship God
in a church
Something must be done.
We have to instigate a nationwide search
For a way to make it fun.
Rain from heaven will blessings bring,
Behold the harvest grown.
SHANTY and PREACHER
Rain from heaven falls down on you,
SHANTY
But me, I feel alone.
Alone.