I defy anyone to listen to this song and not cry.
To me it defines the true meaning of memorial days such as ANZAC day here in Australia - beyond all the flag toting and children too young to understand marching in their forebears medals.
My great-grandfather who raised my mother was the only male survivor of his siblings of the first world war. He had four brothers. The only reason he didn't die was because he was too young to go. It really brings home the message of the slaughter that was world war one - when I heard this song I thought of him and how he would have reacted. He was a farmer - a scottish crofter. He would have understood the references to nature at a deep level. It seems all the more sad to me that the generation who went through that will never hear this song. Never hear that we still remember them.
@clareak Your words are really beautiful. I feel very sorry for what the war meant to your family back then. This song is very sad and very emotional. It's my favourite song in the album.
@clareak Your words are really beautiful. I feel very sorry for what the war meant to your family back then. This song is very sad and very emotional. It's my favourite song in the album.
@clareak I also thank you for your story. You're right that one cannot really listen to this song and not cry. And as alexoliveiras0 said so well, one also cannot hear the story of your great grandfather's family and not '...feel very sorry for what the war meant to your family back then.'
I think of "Nature, red in tooth and claw" who in all its dispassionate grandeur intones ‘A thousand types are gone: / I care for nothing, all shall go.’ ...much to the very personal heartbreak and horror of our human race.
I thank Ms. Harvey for bringing these remembrances....
@clareak I also thank you for your story. You're right that one cannot really listen to this song and not cry. And as alexoliveiras0 said so well, one also cannot hear the story of your great grandfather's family and not '...feel very sorry for what the war meant to your family back then.'
I think of "Nature, red in tooth and claw" who in all its dispassionate grandeur intones ‘A thousand types are gone: / I care for nothing, all shall go.’ ...much to the very personal heartbreak and horror of our human race.
I thank Ms. Harvey for bringing these remembrances.
I defy anyone to listen to this song and not cry. To me it defines the true meaning of memorial days such as ANZAC day here in Australia - beyond all the flag toting and children too young to understand marching in their forebears medals.
My great-grandfather who raised my mother was the only male survivor of his siblings of the first world war. He had four brothers. The only reason he didn't die was because he was too young to go. It really brings home the message of the slaughter that was world war one - when I heard this song I thought of him and how he would have reacted. He was a farmer - a scottish crofter. He would have understood the references to nature at a deep level. It seems all the more sad to me that the generation who went through that will never hear this song. Never hear that we still remember them.
@clareak Your words are really beautiful. I feel very sorry for what the war meant to your family back then. This song is very sad and very emotional. It's my favourite song in the album.
@clareak Your words are really beautiful. I feel very sorry for what the war meant to your family back then. This song is very sad and very emotional. It's my favourite song in the album.
@clareak I also thank you for your story. You're right that one cannot really listen to this song and not cry. And as alexoliveiras0 said so well, one also cannot hear the story of your great grandfather's family and not '...feel very sorry for what the war meant to your family back then.' I think of "Nature, red in tooth and claw" who in all its dispassionate grandeur intones ‘A thousand types are gone: / I care for nothing, all shall go.’ ...much to the very personal heartbreak and horror of our human race. I thank Ms. Harvey for bringing these remembrances....
@clareak I also thank you for your story. You're right that one cannot really listen to this song and not cry. And as alexoliveiras0 said so well, one also cannot hear the story of your great grandfather's family and not '...feel very sorry for what the war meant to your family back then.' I think of "Nature, red in tooth and claw" who in all its dispassionate grandeur intones ‘A thousand types are gone: / I care for nothing, all shall go.’ ...much to the very personal heartbreak and horror of our human race. I thank Ms. Harvey for bringing these remembrances.