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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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PJ Harvey – Written on the Forehead (Demo)
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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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PJ Harvey – Written on the Forehead Samples
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See all of “Written on the Forehead” by PJ Harvey’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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PJ Harvey – Written on the Forehead (Demo) Samples
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See all of “Written on the Forehead (Demo)” by PJ Harvey’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Niney – Blood & Fire Samples
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See all of “Blood & Fire” by Niney’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Niney – Blood & Fire
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[Chorus] / Blood, blood, blood; blood and fire / Blood, blood; blood and fire (Oh, mercy lord!) / [Refrain] / There is no more water to out the fire / There is no more water to out
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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 – Homo Sappy Blues (Demo)
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[Verse 1] / A jaw, a leg bone / A reconstructed skull / Like continents and oceans / Died so young / [Chorus] / What God sent you / Sent you from your cave / I need your wisdom
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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 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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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 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 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 & John Parish – That Was My Veil
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[Verse 1] / It starts at daylight / I see him / Before my sad eyes / I hear him breathing / Oh, lover / Need you to lead me / No, never / Thought that you'd leave / [Chorus] / That
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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 – The Colour of the Earth (Demo)
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Louis was my dearest friend / Fighting in the ANZAC trench / Louis ran forward from the line / And I never saw him again / Later, in the dark / I thought I heard Louis' voice
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PJ Harvey – On Battleship Hill (Demo)
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The scent of Thyme carried on the wind / Stings my face into remembering / Cruel nature has won again / Cruel nature has won again / On Battleship Hill's caved in trenches / A
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PJ Harvey – Bitter Branches (Demo)
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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 – In the Dark Places (Demo)
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[Verse 1] / We got up early and washed our faces / And walked the fields and put up crosses / Passed through the damned mountains / [Chorus] / Went hellwards / And some of us
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 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 – 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 – 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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