PJ HARVEY : THE WORDS THAT MAKETH MURDER [2007]

Το αντιπολεμικό opus της PJ Harvey από το άλμπουμ Let England Shake. Μεστό ζοφερών εικόνων …και με μια αναφορά στον Eddie Cohran.
PJ Harvey’s anti-war opus from her album Let England Shake. Full of gloomy pictures …and with a reference to Eddie Cohran.

I’ve seen and done things I want to forget
I’ve seen soldiers fall like lumps of meat,
Blown and shot out beyond belief.
Arms and legs were in the trees.
I’ve seen and done things I want to forget
Coming from an unearthly place,
Longing to see a woman’s face
Instead of the words that gather pace
The words that maketh murder.
These, these, these are the words
The words that maketh murder.
These, these, these are the words
The words that maketh murder.
These, these, these are the words
Murder
These, these, these are the words
The words that maketh murder.
These, these, these are the words
The words that maketh murder.
I’ve seen and done things I want to forget
I’ve seen a corporal whose nerves were shot
Climbing behind the fierce, gone sun,
I’ve seen flies swarming everyone,
Soldiers fell like lumps of meat.
These are the words, the words are these.
Death lingering, stunk,
Flies swarming everyone,
Over the whole summit peak,
Flesh quivering in the heat.
This was something else again.
I fear it cannot explain.
The words that make, the words that make
Murder.
What if I take my problem to the United Nations?
What if I take my problem to the United Nations?
What if I take my problem to the United Nations?
What if I take my problem to the United Nations?
What if I take my problem to the United Nations?
What if I take my problem to the United Nations?
What if I take my what if I take my problem to the United Nations?

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4 Comments

  1. Timothy Price February 12, 2022 at 6:24 pm

    I don’t think the UN will be much help.

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    1. Oannes February 12, 2022 at 6:30 pm

      That’s for sure. As the brilliant G. Edward Griffin anticipated already in the middle ’60s, UN is the problem.

      Reply
  2. Resa February 14, 2022 at 6:49 pm

    Wow! This is fabulous. I’d never heard of her.
    Your trove of music…. much new to me, seems bottomless! What a great blog!

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    1. Oannes February 16, 2022 at 10:25 pm

      Thank you!
      To me PJ ‘s the most interesting female singer – songwriter of her generation [from middle ’90s on].

      Reply

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