 Genius Lyrics
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PJ Harvey – All and Everyone
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This track is one of three songs that alludes to the 1915 battle for Gallipoli, a grotesquely bungled attempt to seize Constantinople, which wiped out much of the Australian and
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PJ Harvey – All and Everyone (Demo)
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[Verse 1] / Death was everywhere / In the air and in the sounds / Coming off the mounds of Bolton's Ridge / Ooh, death's anchorage / [Verse 2] / When you rolled a smoke or told a
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PJ Harvey – The Words That Maketh Murder (Demo)
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[Verse 1] / 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
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PJ Harvey – The Nightingale
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I have heard the sound of your call / I have chosen your path / I joined your caravan / We called you the nightingale / I remember how excited we were / The best of life lay ahead
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PJ Harvey – Bitter Branches
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Bitter branches spreading out / There's none more bitter than the wood / Into the white world it grows / Twisting under soldiers' feet / Standing in lines and the damp earth
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PJ Harvey – I’ll Be Waiting
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[Verse 1] / They swept across the land / They did not leave a thing / They did not leave a person / A stone or a tree / They did not leave anything / They did not leave anything
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PJ Harvey – I'll Be Waiting (Demo)
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[Verse 1] / They swept across the land / They did not leave a thing / They did not leave a person / A stone or a tree / They did not leave anything / They did not leave anything
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PJ Harvey – The Words That Maketh Murder
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“The Words That Maketh Murder” is about the horrors of war, and failed diplomacy. The lyrics are sufficently imprecise that they could refer to either World War, or the
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PJ Harvey – Wait
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[Verse 1] / Thought that if I waited, things might happen / There was no need to move myself / What's happening to me? / Sit around and sit around / My legs are underneath me / Sit
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Genius Lists – Songs Based on Historical Events
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This Genius project helps connect music to historical events
Many times, we listen to a song, not ever knowing it was based on an actual event in history. The list includes a very
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PJ Harvey – England (Demo)
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I live and die through England / Through England / It leaves a sadness / Remedies never were within my reach / I cannot go on as I am / Withered vine reaching / From the country
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PJ Harvey – Let England Shake (Demo)
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[Verse 1] / The west's asleep, let England shake / Weighted down with silent dead / I fear our blood won't rise again / Won't rise again / [Verse 2] / England's dancing days are
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PJ Harvey – Hanging in the Wire (Demo)
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Davey, see the mist rise / Over no man's land / Davey sees in front of him / A smashed up waste-ground / There are no fields or trees / No blades of grass / Just unburied cocky
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PJ Harvey – The Last Living Rose
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Goddam' Europeans! Take me back to beautiful England / And the grey, damp filthiness of ages and battered books / And fog rolling down behind the mountains / On the graveyards and
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PJ Harvey – Good Fortune
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“Good Fortune” was recorded during the sessions for Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea throughout March and April 2000 at Linford Manor in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
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PJ Harvey – In the Dark Places
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[Verse 1] / We got up early, washed our faces / Walked the fields and put up crosses / Passed through the damned mountains / [Chorus] / Went hellwards / And some of us returned
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PJ Harvey – The Glorious Land (Demo)
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[Verse 1] / How is our glorious country ploughed? / Not by iron ploughs / How is our glorious country ploughed? / Not by iron ploughs / Our land is ploughed by tanks and feet
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PJ Harvey – Dear Darkness (Demo)
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Dear darkness, dear darkness / Won't you cover, cover me again? / Dear darkness, dear / I've been your friend for many years / Won't you do this for me? / Dearest darkness / And
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PJ Harvey & John Parish – The Soldier
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[Verse 1] / I imagine a dream in which I'm a soldier / And I'm walking on the faces of dead women / And everyone I've left behind me / It's the year when the troops entered / The
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PJ Harvey – The Big Guns Called Me Back Again
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[Verse 1] / Shadows lengthening / Ninety-five steps I'm taking / With every step I'm longing / For the luck to keep on living / [Chorus] / The drum calls me back again / To my
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PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
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The opening track to the highly acclaimed album.
The song sets the tone for the rest of the album, a sad, melancholic set of songs about England, her homeland.
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PJ Harvey – The Last Living Rose (Demo)
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Goddam' Europeans! Take me back to beautiful England / And the grey, damp filthiness of ages, and battered books / And fog rolling down behind the mountains / On the graveyards and
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PJ Harvey – The Glorious Land
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[Verse 1] / How is our glorious country ploughed? / Not by iron ploughs / How is our glorious country ploughed? / Not by iron ploughs / Our land is ploughed by tanks and feet
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PJ Harvey – This Wicked Tongue
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[Verse 1] / This wicked tongue says / God is a million miles away / This wicked tongue says / He can't see my day to day / This wicked tongue says / "Go on, taste everything" / And
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PJ Harvey – Written on the Forehead
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[Verse 1] / People throwing dinars at the bellydancers / In a sad circus by a trench of burning oil / People throw belongings, a lifetime's earnings / Amongst the scattered rubbish
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Harvey Danger – Flagpole Sitta
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AV Club describes “Flagpole Sitta” as “exploring the tension between being both a cultural observer and a participant—when you’re self-aware enough to notice how the underground is
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PJ Harvey – The Colour of the Earth
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Louis was my dearest friend / Fighting in the ANZAC trench / Louis ran forth from the line / I never saw him again / Later in the dark / I thought I heard Louis' voice / Calling
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Grape (UK) (Ft. PJ Harvey) – Baby in a Plastic bag
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[Mark Barber: Verse 1] / There was a man who told us all about his yesterdays / He said that come the come, come revolution praise / And though we talked about him, walked about
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PJ Harvey – On Battleship Hill
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The song is the sixth track on the purely antiwar PJ Harvey’s album Let England Shake.
PJ told NPR about this song:
…one of the conflicts that affected me a great deal was the
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PJ Harvey – Hanging in the Wire
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Walker sees the mist rise / Over a no-man's-land / He sees in front of him / A smashed up waste-ground / There are no fields or trees / No blades of grass / Just unburied ghosts
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PJ Harvey – England
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“England” is a love letter to Harvey’s home country. The song’s beauty lies partially in its dissonance, in part created by the underlying Said El Kurdi sample.
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PJ Harvey – Dear Darkness
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Dear darkness, dear darkness / Won't you cover, cover me again? / Dear darkness, dear / I've been your friend for many years / Won't you do this for me? / Dearest darkness / And
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Dan Bern – Chick Singers
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Well this bald headed girl I know sent me / A tape of Björk and Courtney Love / And PJ Harvey, called it "Brilliant Women" / I put it in my car / Heard it all the way down to the
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