This is a transcript of the lyrics to the song Soil of War on the cassette release UnAbleTo. “Recall crag-tops and outcrops grazing horizon, sooted stone houses and steep valley sides, a babbling Calder cuts its old crooked line, recalling these things under flashing french skies, flowers of enemy fire over head, friends and comrades twisted and dead, inextricably tied to dark pennine moors, a man starts to grow in the soil of war” It is a song inspired by a few words from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Holt_(writer), on his time during the war. Billy was introduced to me by Bob Wilson (Bob from Tod) and had a fascinating story. The root of his world is Todmorden, but he made every effort to learn and travel. As pals seem to be moving to the nearby town of Hebden Bridge, from where some of the imagery from this song comes, I thought Id share. The Cassette/Download of UnAbleTo is here: antiquatedfuture.bandcamp/album/unableto
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 01:50:03 +0000