PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey
This track is one of three songs that alludes to the 1915 battle for Gallipoli, a grotesquely bungled attempt to seize Constantinople, which wiped out much of the Australian and New Zealand Army. In an interview with The Bridport News, Harvey explained she did an enormous amount of research for the...
[Verse 1]
Death was everywhere
In the air and in the sounds
Coming off the mounds of Bolton's Ridge
Ooh, death's anchorage
[Verse 2]
When you rolled a smoke or told a joke
It was in the laughter and drinking water
It approached the beach as strings of cutters
Dropped into the sea and lay around us
[Verse 3]
Death was in the ancient fortress
Shelled by a million bullets
From gunners waiting in the copses
With hearts that threatened to pop their boxes
[Pre-Chorus]
As we advanced into the sun
Death was all and everyone
Death was all and everyone
[Chorus]
As we, advancing in the sun
As we, advancing every man
As we, advancing in the sun
[Verse 4]
Death hung in the smoke and clung
To 400 acres of useless beach front
A bank of red earth, dripping down
Death is now, and now, and now
[Verse 5]
Death was everywhere
In the air and in the sounds
Coming off the mounds of Bolton's Ridge
Ooh, death's anchorage
[Verse 6]
Death was in the staring sun
Fixing its eyes on everyone
It rattled the bones of the Light Horsemen
Still lying out there in the open
[Chorus]
As we, advancing in the sun
As we, advancing every man
As we, advancing in the sun
Sing, "Death to all and everyone"
All and Everyone was written by PJ Harvey.
All and Everyone was produced by Flood & Mick Harvey & John Parish & PJ Harvey.
PJ Harvey released All and Everyone on Mon Feb 14 2011.