Track 01 — June 7, 1844
The press runs for the first and last time. Insiders break their silence. The truth will out.
Tracks
Every track on Sudden Day, in album order. Each page carries the lyrics, the source quotes from the Nauvoo Expositor, a line-by-line lyric-to-source mapping, and producer notes.
Track 02 — Forbearance
They begged him to repent. He said he’d rather be damned. Now forbearance has ceased to be a virtue.
Track 03 — Seven Wives
“What a thing it is for a man to be accused of having seven wives, when I can only find one.” He stood at the pulpit and lied.
Track 04 — Ten Thousand Miles
She crossed the ocean to find God. She left everything behind. She didn’t know what waited.
Track 05 — Positively No Admittance
A room with a warning on the door. An oath sworn under penalty of death. “God has revealed that you are mine.”
Track 06 — The Tender Tree
Sent away until the talk died down. Robbed of what only death can restore. Dry sorrow drinks her blood.
Track 07 — Under Condemnation
The revelation said wives who refused would stand condemned before God. Obey or be damned. There was no escape.
Track 08 — The Revelation
Austin Cowles sat in the High Council when Hyrum read the revelation. Plural wives. Sealing against all sins. He could not teach such laws.
Track 09 — Many Gods
They taught there were innumerable gods above our God. That He could fall. That we could rise. They called it progression. The Expositor called it blasphemy.
Track 10 — The Great Throat
They preached sacrifice. They preached gathering. The wealth flowed in and was swallowed by one great throat, from whence there was no return.