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The Soldier Lyrics

I imagine a dream
In which I'm a soldier and I'm walking
On the faces of dead women
And everyone I've left behind me
It's the year when the troops entered
The thirty-ninth parallel

Send me home restless
Send me home damaged
And wanting

It's the year when some poet said:
"We must love or accept the consequences"
I want you to share every pinprick of guilt
That I have felt

Send me home restless
Send me home damaged
Send me home disposessed
Send me home damaged
And wanting
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Cover art for The Soldier lyrics by PJ Harvey

this is an awesome song it sounds so innocent but deranged one of my favorites of the album

Cover art for The Soldier lyrics by PJ Harvey

39th parallel = Korean war.

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Cover art for The Soldier lyrics by PJ Harvey

'It's the year when some poet said: "We must love or accept the consequences"'

--Anyone know the poet she's talking about? I googled the line, but alas, to no avail.

It’s a line from Auden. The poem says: we must love or die.

It’s a line from Auden. The poem says: we must love one another or die. \r\n

 
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