Category Archives: bjdsongs 2020

This is about abandonment at the break up of a relationship but it is interwoven with an idea of being lost at sea. The concept of the verses being letters only arose when I made the video.

I do like progressive rock but am a long way off playing it, so this was composed and forged from samples. I had been reading ‘Who We Are and How We Got Here’ by David Reich. The piece is in part about our origins but it also echoes modern migration. The core themes are population growth and diversity based upon common ancestry.

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.