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Man of Sorrows is the second single from Bruce Dickinson's fourth solo album, ''Accident of Birth'', released on 3 June 1997. The song was originally written for a film called Chemical Wedding, which existed only as a script at the time (it was eventually filmed and released in May 2008). The original version of the song is included on the Best Of Bruce Dickinson album and was recorded in 1990, engineered by André Jacquemin (who is better known for his sound-engineer work for Monty Python) and with Janick Gers on guitar.1 In interviews, Bruce Dickinson has stated that the song's lyrics are about the occult English writer Aleister Crowley. The repeated expression "Do what thou wilt!" refers to the motto of the Abbey of Thelema, which the French Renaissance writer François Rabelais invented in his philosophical work Gargantua. In this abbey, men and women live together in peace and harmony according to the principle:
Inspired by Rabelais' ideas, Crowley founded in 1920 a commune called the Abbey of Thelema in Sicily. The title Man of Sorrows refers to a passage in the Bible, in the book of Isaiah 53, which describes a man who takes on the sins of all mankind. According to Catholic teaching, this figure foreshadows Jesus, who died for mankind to redeem them:
A Spanish version of the song, Hombre Triste, is included on the 2005 expanded edition of Accident of Birth. A radio edit and an orchestral version of Man of Sorrows are included on the same CD. ==References== Notes 1 ''The Best of Bruce Dickinson''. 2001. Disc. 2. Track 13. The Voice of Crube. 2 Isaiah 53.3-4. See also Man of Sorrows 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Man of Sorrows (Bruce Dickinson song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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