Guernica (Tribute to Picasso)("Mad World" as performed by Michael Andrews and Gary Jules)
April 26, 2021
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as posted by the channelMusical parody about the April 26, 1937 bombing of the Spanish town of Guernica, depicted by Pablo Picasso in his mural for the Paris Exposition that same year.
LYRICS
Paint the canvas with figures and faces
Black and grey shapes fill the spaces
On commission for the Exposition
‘37 Spanish Pavillion, oh
Read the paper see the horror story
Civil war in your home country
Use your art to show your rage and sorrow
What will become of tomorrow?
Incendiary bombing on the town on market day
Nazi mercenaries and Italian fascists play
Nationalists triumph while Republicans are slain
Called Operation Rügen, ordered by General Franco
Painted by Picasso
Woman grieving ‘oer her dying infant
Shed the light on our indifference, oh
Like sombre newsprint it’s monochromatic
Tongues like daggers, scenes of panic
Stoic bull looks on, a horse is slaughtered
Modern soldier with stigmata
Flower of hope springs from a broken sword
Is this what we have in store?
And it’s really quite prophetic -
Do we blame technology?
And the evil eye electric
Shows our flawed humanity
And we find it still disturbing - this brutal exposé
It’s hauntingly unnerving;
It’s the same story today
Guernica
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