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I thought about starting a new thread for this, but that would probably just get ugly. Uglier. The Torygraph's music critic Neil McCormick has written a song in reaction to the London bombings, which will be released as a single. Yes, the money's going to charity, but does that really justify the following?
The song is addressed to our terrorist enemies, posed as a series of hard questions about why they would attack fellow human beings they have never met. It is called People I Don't Know Are Trying to Kill Me.
...It was something I had started writing months before, after reading headlines about the terrorist threat to London. I bashed it out in rough form on an acoustic guitar to my friend Bono one night and he became very animated.
"This is a song that needs to be heard now," he insisted. He even suggested that U2 might record it as a B-side. So finally, when I got back to London on Thursday night, I finished it. I picked up a guitar and verses just poured out. "And when I'm turned to dust, will Allah or Jesus claim me?/And will the God of love welcome up above those who would maim me?/Can't you hear the crying in the streets? Broken glass beneath your feet? Children and mothers weep to shame thee/I live in a world where people I don't know are trying to kill me." |
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