PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
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Album Review
Release date: 15 February 2011
PJ Harvey - 'Let England Shake'
Polly’s most affecting and impressive work so far
April 25, 1915. World War I is less than a year old, and the Western Front is locked in stalemate. On the orders of Field Marshal ‘Your country needs you’ Kitchener, Anzac troops lay siege to the peninsula of Gallipoli in the Ottoman Empire. The purpose? To capture the forts that control the passage of the Dardanelles straits with a sub-plot of simultaneously drawing Bulgaria and Greece –...
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PJ Harvey - Let England Shake: Wikipedia Album Entry
Let England Shake is the eighth studio album by PJ Harvey. It is to be released on 14 February 2011 in the UK, and on 15 February 2011 in the US. Work on it began around the time of White Chalk's release in 2007, though it is a departure from the piano-driven introspective collection of that album. It was written between late 2007 and 2008, and recorded over a five-week period.
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PJ Harvey - Let England Shake Lyrics
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake Lyrics
The west's asleep, let England shake
Weighted down with silent dead
I fear our blood won't rise again
Won't rise again
PJ Harvey - The Last Living Rose Lyrics
Goddamn Europeans
Take me back to beautiful England
And the gray, damp filthiness
Of ages and battered books
PJ Harvey - The Glorious Land Lyrics
How is our glorious country ploughed?
Not by iron ploughs
How is our glorious country ploughed?
Not by iron ploughs
PJ Harvey - The Words That Maketh Murder Lyrics
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
PJ Harvey - All And Everyone Lyrics
Death was everywhere
In the air and in the sounds
Coming off the mounds of Bolton's Ridge
Ooh, death's anchorage
PJ Harvey - 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
PJ Harvey - England Lyrics
I live and die through England
Through England
It leaves a sadness
Remedies never were within my reach
PJ Harvey - In the Dark Places Lyrics
We got up early, washed our faces
Walked the fields and put up crosses
Passed through the damned mountains
Went hellwards and some of us returned
PJ Harvey - Bitter Branches Lyrics
Bitter branches spreading out
There's none more bitter than the wood
Into the wide world it grows
PJ Harvey - Hanging In the Wire Lyrics
Walker sees the mist rise
Over no man's land
He sees in front of him
A smashed up waste ground
PJ Harvey - Written On The Forehead Lyrics
People throwing dinars at the belly-dancers
In a sad circus by a trench of burning oil
People throw belongings, a lifetime's earnings
Amongst the scattered rubbish and suitcases on the sidewalk
PJ Harvey - Colour of the Earth Lyrics
Louis was my dearest friend
Fighting in the ANZAC trench
Louis ran forth from the line
I never saw him again
