Post War Years consist of Si Critten, Henry Riggs, Tom O'Hare and Fred McLaren. They are all very nice chaps and in some cases close personal friends. They all enjoy a variety of musical styles and it shows, because they have a diverse range of songs evincing Prince to Battles as influences, unified thematically by all being jaw-droppingly great.
Three-quarters of them currently reside in London where they are slowly and systematically going about destroying the music industry. They have recently supported Lethal Bizzle, MGMT, and Does It Offend You, Yeah? among others.
They played what many fans would describe as their finest gig at wonderful Leamington-based club night La Supercool Discotheque, where huge sub bass made the floor shake and a legion of fans chanted their choruses back at them.
Si, Henry and Tom were previously in an indie band called llease.
God
Post War Years Lyrics
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Your love feel you everytime.
You are awaked in her eyes,
You'll be alright.
God will find you, hount you down,
She will show you.
Get on my feet, take control of this city.
Will rise it on
You rise it on.
Can't feel the feet better leave this city,
Can't feel my feet better leave this city.
Will rise it on,
will rise it on.
God will find you, hount you down,
She will show you.
You'll be alright.
The lyrics of Post War Years' song God are somewhat abstract and left to interpretation, but they seem to center around the idea of finding comfort and strength in love and the divine. The line "your love feel you everytime" suggests that love is always present and able to provide support and guidance. The following line, "you are awaked in her eyes," depicts the awakening of the singer's spirit and inner self through the lens of their lover's eyes. The chorus repeats the idea of God finding and showing the singer the way, perhaps implying that love and God are one and the same for them.
Line by Line Meaning
That's the lesson you should learn,
The singer is providing advice that should be recognized and absorbed by the listener.
Your love feel you everytime.
The love that the listener has should be something that they feel within them every moment and not just something external.
You are awaked in her eyes,
The listener receives an awakening or realization when they look into the eyes of their beloved.
You'll be alright.
The listener is reassured that things will turn out fine for them.
God will find you, hount you down,
God will pursue the listener until they are found, implying that divine intervention will occur.
She will show you.
God will reveal something to the listener which will help or guide them.
Get on my feet, take control of this city,
The singer is motivating the listener to take control of their environment and make a positive impact on their community.
Will rise it on
The listener will lift up themselves and their city.
You rise it on.
The responsibility is placed on the listener to make changes in their environment.
Can't feel the feet better leave this city,
If the listener is unable to have a positive impact on the city, it may be advisable to move elsewhere.
Will rise it on,
The listener will continue to uplift themselves and their surroundings despite any obstacles.
will rise it on.
Reiterating the message that the listener is responsible for creating positive change in their environment.
You'll be alright.
The listener is reassured, again, that everything will work out for them.
Contributed by Madison S. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@cahoonm
@Pennsylvania Mike I posted this on my FB and several people are sharing.
I was sent this by a YouTube acquaintance. Profound.
We're living in very sad, very strange times, my friend. I have a quote that captures this so prophetically it scares me:
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue removed, every street and building renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
~ George Orwell, 1984
@tommypetraglia4688
Great? So you are a seditious traitor yourself. Prbly one of the reasons we have President Shitstain destroying our counrty.
Here's a glimpse of the man you honor... but who am I kidding, you most likely know already and being a racist like Lee you think slavery is a good thing
The Myth of the Kindly General Lee - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee/529038/
-The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a person who never existed.
[... Lee was a slave owner—his own views on slavery were explicated in an 1856 letter that is often misquoted to give the impression that Lee was some kind of abolitionist. In the letter, he describes slavery as “a moral & political evil,” but goes on to explain that:
{ I think it however a greater evil to the white man than to the black race, & while my feelings are strongly enlisted in behalf of the latter, my sympathies are more strong for the former. The blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally socially & physically. The painful discipline they are undergoing, is necessary for their instruction as a race, & I hope will prepare & lead them to better things. How long their subjugation may be necessary is known & ordered by a wise Merciful Providence. Their emancipation will sooner result from the mild & melting influence of Christianity, than the storms & tempests of fiery Controversy. }
The argument here is that slavery is bad for white people, good for black people, and most important, better than abolitionism; emancipation must wait for divine intervention. That black people might not want to be slaves does not enter into the equation; their opinion on the subject of their own bondage is not even an afterthought to Lee.
Lee’s cruelty as a slave master was not confined to physical punishment. In Reading the Man, the historian Elizabeth Brown Pryor’s portrait of Lee through his writings, Pryor writes that “Lee ruptured the Washington and Custis tradition of respecting slave families” by hiring them off to other plantations, and that “by 1860 he had broken up every family but one on the estate, some of whom had been together since Mount Vernon days.” The separation of slave families was one of the most unfathomably devastating aspects of slavery, and Pryor.
Lee’s heavy hand on the Arlington, Virginia, plantation, Pryor writes, nearly led to a slave revolt, in part because the enslaved had been expected to be freed upon their previous master’s death, and Lee had engaged in a dubious legal interpretation of his will in order to keep them as his property, one that lasted until a Virginia court forced him to free them. ...]
@mrsellenj.a1740
As a great great great granddaughter of Mr, Robert E. Lee Pickett I thank you for this beautiful report of my family, it was absolutely beautiful thank you, many have the wrong idea about him and what kind of man he was, it's nice to hear positive information about my great great great grandfather I'm sure he'd be proud thank you.
@daviddalton9214
Whatever you say about Lee, you have to begin with he was a traitor to the United States.
@pamelasmith1947
What an interesting lecture. Teachers like Matt Atkinson make history come alive. We need more like him teaching in schools and universities.
@scottbivins4758
It would never happen it done fit the narrative. They will paint the whole south and all our generals in a bad light.
@pierrerochon7271
. LEE Was a Racist Traitor- fought to preserve slavery- ownership of human beings- resulting in rape, and lynchings - celebrate that????
@pierrerochon7271
why am I still receiving this crap again - I do not want to receive this crap
@craigwilliamdayton
Gettysburg is my hometown, i.e., not where I was born (Myrtle Point, OR) but where I grew up from age nine onward. As an adult, the yearly winter lecture series by the Gettysburg National Military Park was one of my favorite things to attend. I am pleased to see a presentation on YouTube of this series, as I no longer live in Gettysburg. Ranger Matt Atkinson has a terrific personality, clearly knows his subject, and provides us with an exemplary presentation. I am grateful for it. We need more people like him to keep history accurate.
@edwingaines7835
As a student of history regarding Robert E. Lee and grandson of a Francis Pendleton Gaines a 29 year President of Washington and Lee University,I can only applaud this presentation. It was so well thought out and delivered. I do no know why I did no find it sooner. VERY WELL Done.Thank you.
Edwin M. GAINES Jr.
@KingdomCre8tive
100%
@fireguy284
I can't say enough about how mesmerizing this lecture was. I literally felt like I was in the presence of the late general's insights. Sadly our history has taken a backseat to lies, deception and the desire to forget it. I am so glad that no matter what we think about history, it always remains to remind us of the folly of man and ideas that we may forever be mindful of the future.