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On 12/28/2022 at 11:04 PM, Harrison Danneskjold said:

 

"Official Music Video" but also 480p?  Watching this costs me next to nothing but somehow I still feel cheated.

edit: It's entirely CGI and at an odd aspect ratio, so the issue is they couldn't afford more pixels.

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From Agincourt to Waterloo
Poitiers and then Anjou
The Roses War, the Hundred Years
Through battlefields of blood and tears
 
From Bosworth Field to Pointe Du Hoc
Stalingard and the siege of York
The bloody turf of Gallipoli
Had no effect on the killing spree
 
Bannockburn to Austerlitz
The fall of France and the German blitz
The cruelest of atrocities
Europa's blood is borne of these
 
Heaven help in all our battles
Heaven see love, heaven help us
 
Bolshevisks and feudal lords
Chivalry to civil wars
Fascist rule and genocide
Now we face the rising tide
 
Of new crusades, religious wars
Insurgents imported to our shores
The western world, gripped in fear
The mother of all battles here
 
Heaven help in all our battles
Heaven see love, heaven help us
Avant hier, avons être
Déja demain, (nous) sommes éclairée
 
All glory, all honor
Victory is upon us
Our savior, fight evil
Send armies to defend us
 
Empires built, and nations burned
Mass graves remain unturned
Decendants of the dispossessed
Return with bombs strapped to their chests
 
There's hate for life, and death in hate
Emerging from the new caliphate
The victors of this war on fear
Will rule for the next thousand years
 
All glory, all honor
Victory is upon us
Our savior, fight evil
Send armies to defend us
Europa, Europa
Find better days before us
In kindness, in spirit
Lead us to a greater calling
 
Europa, Europa
Find better days before us
In kindness, in spirit
Lead us to a greater calling
 
Lennigrad, Berlin wall
March on Rome, Byzantium's fall
Lightning war, Dresden nights
Drop the bomb, end this fight!
 
Never again!
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In We the Living Rand describes a "Little Apple" song that various characters are singing during various parts of the story. I have found that song. This rendition is sped up quite a bit from the one it seems to come from, but here is the "Little Apple" song.

 

 

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On 1/12/2017 at 3:59 PM, Boydstun said:

Roderick Long has lately tracked down the song “John Gray” that Rand employed in We the Living. He reports it was written in 1923 by Matvei Blanter (1903–1990). The lyrics coincide with those translated by Rand. They are by Vladimir Mass (1876–1979).

“Petrograd had known sweeping epidemics of cholera; it had known epidemics of typhus, which were worse; the worst of its epidemics was that of ‘John Gray’.

“Men stood in line at the co-operatives—and whistled ‘John Gray’. At recreation hour in schools, young couples danced in the big hall, and an obliging pupil played ‘John Gray’. Men hung on the steps of speeding tramways, humming desperately ‘John Gray’. Workers’ clubs listened attentively to a lecture on Marxism, then relaxed while a comrade showed his skill on a piano out of tune, playing ‘John Gray’." (1936, 178)

@Harrison Danneskjold – The relation of the "John Gray" to the "Little Apple" is foggy to me, but they seem related, perhaps family lineage. Long had a link I posted originally, but that link (at YouTube) voided in the years since. The former might be this one below. 

I'll listen to both later and compare. Because right now we are finishing listening to Turandot. Also: 

 

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First Time

Roberta Flack died today 2/24/24

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One night after closing, we were driving home to Norman, using Western, driving through horse-raising country. We were utterly tired and every muscle ached. All around us, the world was asleep. On the car radio, Roberta Flack was singing “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.” It was an eternal moment.

My first love

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