Ball of Wax 57 Songs: Virgin of the Birds – “Saint Ursula”

Our dear friend Jon Rooney is back after his longest BoW hiatus in quite some time (has it really been a year?), and he’s brought us a perfect, less-than-two-minute nugget of Virgin-of-the-Birds-iness. Eighth-note chords chugged out on acoustic and reverbed-out electric guitar? Check! Titled for an obscure historical figure (who was apparently massacred along with a slew of other virgins [were they all sainted, or just Ursula?])? Check! Highly specific name-checks? Check! An encyclopedia of references that sail over my head? Double-check! And after all that, a second-person turn to intimacy and emotion that comes out of nowhere and leaves you just a bit woozy? All that, my friends, and a sweet little synth stinger at the end. Virgin of the Birds is back, baby!