Author Archives: BJD

This is the second song that I wrote and performed, with Peter on guitar and bass. 2018 was the worst year for school mass shootings in the USA and Trump fronted the NRA convention. I grew up with American films and music. Suddenly it seemed to me that the American dream had become a nightmare.

Taking the title from the film about Churchill and World War II, this is a protest song about abuse of power and the absence of ethical leadership in nation states. It seems that we fail to learn from history as we loop around the mistakes of the first half of the twentieth century all over again.

Written as we approached 100 days of Coronavirus/Covid-19 lockdown in the UK. I tried to capture a series of images as lines in the song and wrap them in a chorus about the absence of touch in the virtual world and the cost of getting back to normal.