Скачать или смотреть "Grief and Destruction" - Marsh Family parody of Barry McGuire's "Eve of Destruction" on war in Iran

There are obviously lots of angles to this story, and it’s dangerous to wade into things without knowing how they will play out. So we waited to see if anything positive might emerge after the initial assassination of the despicable Khamenei (whose name was in an early draft of a chorus), and what the Trump administration/regime’s purported rationale was … and over subsequent days as we watched the grotesque media performances by Hegseth, the missiles killing children not just tyrants, and the escalation of damage and casualties without any sign of a coherent policy or endgame, we made the song about how it’s dangerous to wade into things without knowing how they’re going to play out.

If we’d known undead Tony Blair was going to remerge from the media crypt with some pearls of wisdom on Sunday, we would have probably made space to take the piss out of that ... but it would have been counterproductive to just parachute in (a bit like in 2003).

The original track “Eve of Destruction” was only reluctantly laid down at the end of a recording session by a gravelly-voiced Barry McGuire, and the demo leaked to a radio station where it was an instant hit in a country torn apart and increasingly divided over foreign wars and domestic protests in late 1965. Phil Sloan wrote the song months earlier, after the Gulf of Tonkin incident that was central to LBJ’s justification for US escalation in Vietnam. We had it on our radar for a future conflict, but want to give a shoutout to Kevin Ellis for urging us to use it to address this conflict.

If you want to hear a properly mixed folk-pop song of ours about the heroic protest movement in Iran, then you can find “Zan Zendegi Azadi” on our forthcoming album.


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LYRICS:

The Middle Eastern world, it is explodin’
Violence flarin’, Hegseth’s gloatin’
He made a macho reel – weird self-promotin’
He’s revelling in war: he’s laughin’ and he’s jokin’
And even though it’s clear all the carnage it’s provokin’

You can tell Pete’s
Over promoted and kind of a sad bellend
How d’ya show such glee
Spreading grief and destruction?

No-one understands what Trump’s trying to say
Can’t explain his aims – they’re shifting each day!
A pre-emptive half putsch? Regime change or play?
Wishing power to the people, as he bombs them away
Watch the ‘peacemaker’ deploy: he’s Netanyahu’s boy!

“Epic Fury”
Over and over and over again, my friend
That’s what Trump may reap
For his war of distraction

Yeah, they wanted it so bad, the headlines to be makin’
The death toll’s sad – but not worth contemplatin’
Torpedoes look cool – the memes that they’re creatin’
Make Hegseth drool! You bet he’s masturbatin’
His WhatsApp’s hot – can’t hide his excitation
While US respect is DIS-integratin’
And the whole fuckin’ Gulf kinda escalatin’

It’s not healthy
Over and over and over again, my friend
To be so naïve
Spreading grief and destruction

Some think it’s so the Strait can be used to bully China
Or softening the ground for control of oil refiners
You may racketeer … and leaders replace
But as bodies pile up, you’ll be losing your base
The poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace
As you bury some schoolkids, or refugees displace
And the White House tailors a photo-op to fake grace

Same old story! Over and over and over and over again, my friend:
The legacy the bombing leaves is destruction
Oh-oh, the legacy the bombing leaves is destruction

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