Europe Speaks

Director and DOP Stephen Langdon
Editor Tom Grut
Additional European atmosphere images by Michael Mortlock
LYRICS
The southerly bites
Like a wolf on the fold
A Syrian was there
Or so we were taught
“And the bare black cliffs
Clanged round him”
Europe speaks
Of Europe
The Paris streets
An echo of themselves
Baudelaire
And his sick muse
“And the bare black cliffs
Clanged round him”
Europe speaks
Of Europe
Speaks
Of Europe
Alors, on y va?
En attendant Godot
An Irish breakfast
Is growing cold
“And the bare black cliffs
Clanged round him”
Europe speaks
Of Europe
“We feel at ease
In the middle of a storm
But when the sea is calm
And the sun is warm
Then all we find
In the unmoving air
Is our despair
Our despair”
Europe speaks
Of Europe
“I saw some of the country
Our barrage had passed over
Through the dismal fog
I saw the shell torn ground
Shattered tree trunks
Ruined houses
Unburied corpses
A picture of desolation
I can’t easily forget”
Europe speaks
Only of Europe
Europe speaks
“And the bare black cliff(s) clanged round him” Tennyson
“We feel at ease...our despair” Baudelaire
“I saw some of the country...easily forget” R.G.Finn war diaries

[@micheleashton7884]

Wow … formidable in the English sense …🧟🧟‍♀️🧟‍♂️

[@scneese64]

Very appropriate song to our world right now. Sadly, pun intended, History Repeats. The song, chord progressions & video top rate. Thank you!

[@hellbilly59]

I dig it. Brings me back to the darkness of mental notes

[@newsles2]

Interesting. This has something of both Peter Gabriel and Steven Wilson about it. Oh, and Tim and Eddie ;)

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