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Lyrics include: "I don't want to work in a building downtown; I don't know what I'm going to do, 'cause the planes keep crashing, always two by two." Bloc Party "Hunting for Witches" A Weekend in the City: 2007: This song is about frontman Kele Okereke's observations on the media response to terrorist attacks after the September 11 attacks [38 ...
"Taps" is a bugle call—a signal, not a song. As such, there is no associated lyric. Many bugle calls had words associated with them as a mnemonic device but these are not lyrics. Horace Lorenzo Trim is often credited for a set of words intended to accompany the music: [14]
Memorial Day falls on Monday, May 27 this year. For many people, the last Monday in May serves as the unofficial start to summer, but the true meaning behind the federal holiday is to honor and ...
The song reflects on those who served in the Vietnam War and whose names are forever etched in stone at the Vietnam War Memorial. As of this writing, the wall currently has 58,000 names and counting.
The Chiang Ching-kuo Memorial Song (蔣經國紀念歌) was an ode written shortly after Republic of China President Chiang Ching-kuo died in 1988. At 8:00 p.m. on January 20, 1988, the Ministry of National Defense invited composer Xie Junyi to compose the "Chiang Ching-kuo Memorial Song", after which it was handed over to China Television to be arranged by the director of the CTS band, Zhan ...
Jewish partisans' anthem in the Jewish partisans' memorial in Giv'ataym, Israel Jewish partisans' anthem in the Jewish partisans' memorial in Bat-Yam "Zog nit keyn mol" (Never Say; Yiddish: זאָג ניט קיין מאָל, [zɔg nit kɛjn mɔl]) sometimes "Zog nit keynmol" or "Partizaner lid" [Partisan Song]) is a Yiddish song considered one of the chief anthems of Holocaust survivors and is ...
"My Country, 'Tis of Thee", also known as simply "America", is an American patriotic song, the lyrics of which were written by Samuel Francis Smith. [2] The song served as one of the de facto national anthems of the United States (along with songs like "Hail, Columbia") before the adoption of "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the official U.S. national anthem in 1931. [3]
The song is about Waters' frustration with the leadership of the world since World War II, [5] mentioning many world leaders by name (Ronald Reagan, Alexander Haig, Menachem Begin, Margaret Thatcher, Ian Paisley, Leonid Brezhnev, Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon), suggesting that these "colonial wasters of life and limb" be segregated into a specially-founded retirement home.