ROOV - MEET BEYERS
A new (2022)-remix from the older days.
This song is about the 'West Memphis Three': a group of three teenagers controversially accused and convicted of a triple murder in 1993.
In 1993 Damien Echols (18) was arrested, together with Jason Baldwin (16) and Jessie Misskelley (17), and accused of murdering three eight-year-old boys in West Memphis Arkansas: Steve Branch, Michael Moore and Christopher Byers.
Damien Echols - gothic dressed - was thé easiest target (..), because he didn't fit in the West Memphis Community.
In 1994 judge David Burnett sentenced him to death by lethal injection.
He was released from Death Row in 2011 by Alford plea.
In 2012 Amy Berg made a documentary about this case ('West Of Memphis') and after watching it I came to the conclusion that there could be another 'person of interest': Christopher Beyers stepdad: John Mark Beyers, who adopted Christopherd.
Just thoughts, NO judging!!
(Get your own opinion and watch West Of Memphis for yourself..)
Anyway, this case intrigues me that much, that I decieded to make a song about it, with actual audio-footage from the case and a main role for Christopher Mark Byers.
Judge for yourself, or don't juge at all and drink a criminally perfect brewed espresso. Instructioned can be found in this video at: 00.15, 01:15 and 03:25.
Have a nice heavy cup of coffee, folks!
ROOV - MEET BYERS (Lyrics):
I can remember quite vivility
The day that I came to from comateuze state (I had overdosed)
Next day they were on the phone with my brother in law and sister down from Jackson, Mississipi
Said: we all take it: he’s out of control
He’s out of control
Lord, I can't do this on my own
I need you
…
Oh god, help me
Help me, help me
Oh god, help me
Help me
I saw my brother in law, big tall read-headed fellow
I said: you don’t know all the wrongs I have done
You don’t…, you don’t…
You don’t know all the wrongs I’ve done
He said let me show you all people
And he explained to me about the apostel Paul
The apostel Paul has already took it
He survived the sheeps
So I thought: well, if the lord could save the apostel Paul
When this last tragedy came into their lives
Into their lives
Into their….Lives…
This one is in the evening
(Help me)
This one is in the evening
(Help me)
This one is three times a day
(Help me)
I get real nervous
(Help me)
Just like I’m kind of paranoid, have panic attacks
(Help me)
Seen a bird on the floor
(Help me)
A manic- or panic attack
(Help me)
I see things out of the corner of my eyes that’s truely not there
(Help me)
Truely not there…
Paranoid feelings
Panic attacks