Written On The Forehead - Live From La Maroquinerie, Paris 2011
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
Take palms and orange and tangerine trees
With eyes that're crying for everything
(Let it burn! Let it burn, burn, burn...)
So I talked to an old man by the generator
He was standing on the gravel by the fetid river
He turned to me and answered, "Baby, see."
Said, "War is here in our apartment--let it sleep."
So I jumped in at the riverhead and tried to swim away
Through tons of sewage; they had written on their foreheads
Take palms and orange and tangerine trees
With eyes that're crying for everything
Let it burn, let it burn!
Let it burn, let it burn!
Let it burn, let it burn!
Let it burn, let it burn!
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
Take palms and orange and tangerine trees
With eyes that're crying for everything
(Let it burn! Let it burn, burn, burn...)
So I talked to an old man by the generator
He was standing on the gravel by the fetid river
He turned to me and answered, "Baby, see."
Said, "War is here in our apartment--let it sleep."
So I jumped in at the riverhead and tried to swim away
Through tons of sewage; they had written on their foreheads
Take palms and orange and tangerine trees
With eyes that're crying for everything
Let it burn, let it burn!
Let it burn, let it burn!
Let it burn, let it burn!
Let it burn, let it burn!
Credits
Writer(s): Polly Jean Harvey, Winston Holness
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- England - Live From La Maroquinerie, Paris 2011
- Bitter Branches - Live From La Maroquinerie, Paris 2011
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- I Inside the Old Year Dying
- I Inside the Old I Dying
- A Child's Question, August
- B-Sides, Demos & Rarities
- B-Sides, Demos & Rarities
- The Hope Six Demolition Project - Demos
- The Hope Six Demolition Project - Demos
- Let England Shake - Demos
- The Last Living Rose (Demo)
- The Words That Maketh Murder (Demo)
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