St. Clements (song)
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| Name | 1984 The World Of Big Brother | |||
| Album/single | Matt Bellamy x Ilan Eshkeri: George Orwell's 1984 | |||
| Length | 1:50 | |||
| Alternative titles | - | |||
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| Latest live performance | - | |||
| Recorded | 2024 | |||
| Writer/composer | Matthew Bellamy & Ilan Eshkeri | |||
| Producer | Matthew Bellamy & Ilan Eshkeri | |||
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A beautiful ominous piano song, with synths. St. Clements makes reference to the "Oranges and Lemons" nursery rhyme, a folksong, and singing game which refers to the bells of several churches; said rhyme is referenced in the book, the song represents the successful eradication of shared English culture by The Party, Winston remembers the song by a short time:
All the while they were talking the half-remembered rhyme kept running through Winston’s head. Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clement’s, You owe me three farthings, say the bells of St. Martin’s! It was curious, but when you said it to yourself you had the illusion of actually hearing bells, the bells of a lost London that still existed somewhere or other, disguised and forgotten. From one ghostly steeple after another he seemed to hear them pealing forth. Yet so far as he could remember he had never in real life heard church bells ringing.
― George Orwell, 1984