On Battleship Hill Lyrics
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 hateful feeling still lingers
Even now, eighty years later
Cruel nature, cruel, cruel nature
The land returns to how it's always been
Thyme carried on the wind
Jagged mountains jutting out
Cracked like teeth in a rotten mouth
On Battleship Hill I hear the wind
Say, "Cruel nature has won again"
Cruel nature has won again
Cruel nature has won again
Cruel nature has won again
Stings my face into remembering
Cruel nature has won again
Cruel nature has won again
On Battleship Hill's caved-in trenches
A hateful feeling still lingers
Even now, eighty years later
Cruel nature, cruel, cruel nature
The land returns to how it's always been
Thyme carried on the wind
Jagged mountains jutting out
Cracked like teeth in a rotten mouth
On Battleship Hill I hear the wind
Say, "Cruel nature has won again"
Cruel nature has won again
Cruel nature has won again
Cruel nature has won again
About
Genius Annotation
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 Gallipoli campaign in the First World War. Something about the dreadful mismanagement and the shocking waste, needless waste, I thought about it a lot and it really affected me, because to me it had such resonance with the wars that are going on today.
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Credits
Producers
Writer
Vocals
Recording Engineer
Assistant Mixing Engineer
Zither
Guitar
Rhodes
Piano
Drums
Percussion
Backing Vocals
Recorded At
Eype Church - Dorset, United Kingdom
Release Date
February 14, 2011
On Battleship Hill Interpolations
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