Song Description
A part tribute to the 1985 song "19" by Paul Hardcastle about the Vietnam war, and also a tribute to the poem "The Second Coming" by W.B.Yeats.
| Song Length |
4:00 |
Genre |
Electronic - Electronica, Electronic - General |
| Tempo |
Slow (71 - 90) |
Mood |
Poignant |
| Subject |
War, Spirituality |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
The Second Coming" by W.B. Yeats.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
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