[A62] ‘Revol’

Released on: Revol (Single #14) Epic Records, 1 August 1994
Peak UK Chart Position: #22
Band Ranking: #39
Also on: The Holy Bible (Album #3) Epic Records, 29 August 1994
Track: 6

he second single used to promote The Holy Bible is, within the album context, probably the song with the lightest theme and lightest touch – making its release as a single unsurprising. ‘Revol’ is “lover” backwards and is another of Edwards’ pieces on the subject of love as a concept. The lyricist had minimal experience of relationships and struggled to make them work, but they were a recurrent interest of his which crops up multiple times in his work.

The lyric juxtaposes the names of various political figures with sexual hangups, predilections and related phrases – all of the leaders mentioned in the first verse are the heads of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), listed…