PJ Harvey - The Colour Of The Earth

Music video by PJ Harvey performing The Colour Of The Earth.© 2011 Universal Island Records Ltd. A Universal Music Company.

[@Jake-Milly]

Anyone here in 2024? Listening to this album on repeat. Haven’t listened to it since 2012. This is clearly her masterpiece album. I know she doesn’t sing lead on this song but wow it is just such a lush, beautiful war (anti-war) song and the lyrics are so poetic.

[@solarialuna]

It Came Out when i Met my Boyfriend and i listened this Song for month

Let England Shake, one of the best albums that i've heard! thank you PJ Harvey

[@brunofernandes3298]

this acapella intro is so powerful......really hits me so hard

[@simonlloyd2824]

This version makes it hit hardest since it's more accurate to how those same soldiers would have sung it in the trenches as a war shanty. Can't listen to this with a dry eye.

[@nuuuabo]

dear god this album is amazing

[@lyricfaerie1768]

Louis was my dearest friend Fighting in the ANZAC trench Louis ran forward from the line I never saw him again Later in the dark I thought I heard Louis' voice Calling for his mother, then me But I couldn't get to him He's still up on that hill Twenty years on that hill Nothing more than a pile of bones But I think of him still If I was asked I'd tell The color of the earth that day It was dull and browny red The color of blood, I'd say

[@TheReturnOfTehogglaz]

This made me cry. Loads. Love you PJ. :')

[@LiamCrowley1990]

I wish my album version was 4:36 long not 2:33. I love this album so much. It's criminal how little views this has. Just shows that PJ's loyal fans buy the album instead of just listening on KZbin I guess. :)

[@xfilesfoxisdead7979]

Of course we buy albums. Ive been listening and buying her albums since 2009

[@pieisexactlythree]

Oh I bought the album, but I can't bring my LPs to work with me.

[@kathleenmaryparker8662]

Oh ... My....God... Knocks the wind out of my heart ...

[@aliocha]

how charming they are...

[@andriusgimbutas3723]

Replace ANZAC with Donbas and it would be a song about my friend

[@iskanderaga-ali3353]

About my uncle in Chernihiv

[@No1SamSmithHater]

Which far right group was he part of

[@seltonk5136]

My guess is you're fighting for something. Louie was half a world away in a meat grinder for no f****** reason

[@andriusgimbutas3723]

​@@seltonk5136 You seem to have pretty strong opinions about something you know nothing of

[@Quetange]

Want to grow old like them.

[@MrDaithis]

+Quetange older.

[@thechurchofsolange58]

I regret not going through Let England Shake album when it first came out

[@7pemery0]

they should play this after the minute silence every remembrance day in the uk. very powerful.

[@ronrendon]

Pure magic.

[@dbp192000]

PTSD is flowing through every lyric, and so many more every day add to the long list of people who will never be the same after suffering the horrors of war. The only spoils are the ones that live on as memories of fallen friends

[@jammybadger6514]

I love this album, it’s just so British no one else could write like this. I wonder why that is. Our history, culture? This and Pink Floyds The Final Cut are just beautiful anti war albums. They make me proud to be English.

[@EscapeCondition]

Timeless album

[@ernestomoros3110]

Bendiciones desde La Habana cuba.

[@MoniqueBourgeois]

This just blows me away...

[@inphanta]

This song always hits me really hard in the feels. Makes me imagine if it was me in that trench and my best friend had gone over that line for the last time. Powerful stuff.

[@sofarfromme]

❤ PJ Harvey and Mick Harvey.

[@TheBloodiac]

Killer jacket on Mr. Parish here! :)

[@anthonymurphy34]

The power of the song resonates the chasm of time and haunting silence left us when we lose our dearest companions. 🥀

[@gato2uk]

brilliant. love her. so glad she won the mercury again. well deserved.

[@vassilnikolov4581]

the spirit of England.

[@paulmccrea9398]

Mick Harvey on the left Legend brilliant 🙀

[@larayulesingh8993]

Endearingly ordinary delivery

[@klausrain111]

I'm in LOVE with Polly Jean! I LOVE everything about her!

[@TheVThakur]

As always...PJ Harvey at her best !

[@lujanl.1994]

Mick Harvey ❤️

[@ryanmedeiros9450]

This song (and the entire album) could be slotted in Incendies just as easily as any of the Radiohead tracks that were in the film. Theres just this feeling of melancholy mixed with hope in this song that makes it get stuck in my head and make me feel weird

[@JoeyLevenson]

Wow, this is really powerful. Wow...

[@noop878]

かっこいいなぁ

[@bryansmith1404]

It’s as good as anything Siegfried Sassoon wrote.

[@YuriyShafran1978]

Love to hear this song again and again. Thank you, Polly & her band!..

[@levoldunom]

I knew it was Mick singing with her. Love you, Peej.

[@AlyoshaJackson]

PJ Harvey ♥

[@MrGratefulheart]

I sooooo love this!

[@VictorABun]

gorgeous PJ, great work.

[@richcampus]

Beauty Full ~

[@harald-bosh]

Incredible stuff!

[@Uncle_Sludge]

I love good music, thus, I am addicted to this song.

[@roiybenkel682]

Louis was my dearest friend Fighting in the Anzac trench Louis ran forward from the line I never saw him again Later in the dark I thought I heard Louis' voice Calling for his mother, then me But I couldn't get to him He's still up on that hill Twenty years on that hill Nothing more than a pile of bones But I think of him still If I was asked I'd tell The colour of the earth that day It was dull and browny-red "The colour of blood", I'd say

[@bonnerscott5374]

the song reminds me of the smiths only PJ is better very talented woman always was but ``LET ENGLAND SHAKE``blows my mind.

[@solarialuna]

Hab mich in das Album verliebt und vor allem in diesen Song, random seit 2 Tagen

[@panranguari]

If I was asked I'd tell The colour of the earth that day It was dull and browny red The colour of blood, I'd say... :D

[@nuuuabo]

honestly her 2nd best album

[@denisefreitas6727]

Amazing!

[@aurevoiralex]

Brilliant. :)

[@andremontagner4133]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@albertpalazon1788]

god...this album

AWESOME!

[@MrGratefulheart]

This is just such great stuff.

[@nuuuabo]

THE COLOUR OF BLOOD ID SAAAAAY

[@Virvellian]

they look like Steklovata

[@joelvosu4600]

Nice..love it:)

[@karlasaavedra1745]

AMOOO

[@sebastian3432]

Polly gracias por existir.

[@thechurchofsolange58]

❤

[@easytiger6570]

Aren't we all nothing more than pile of bones?

[@anarchaos1140]

ХарИзма кАждого зАшкАливает😂🤘😁

[@WalterSobchak1000]

does anyone know what distracted Mick Harvey?

[@louduva9849]

A Kiwi.

[@anarchaos1140]

😄😄🤘🖤👍

[@fredpesce5603]

Is this a shred ? :-)

[@snowdog03]

I know Polly, who are those muppets?.

[@christopherwest4580]

How can you call those master musicians muppets.Just for the record they are pj,mick harvey,jean marc butty and john parish.

[@michellehawkness9291]

Can someone explain the bunny head being covered in plastic? What is the meaning?

[@bultozavr]

1:34 - 1:37 😄

[@lucigaiah]

😁😍🎥

[@andreamasiniluccetti1793]

Sono della generazione che ha ascoltato musica e gruppi della "British invasion" e ho scoperto attraverso youtube Keith Relf poeta e fondatore degli Yardbirds ....Apprezzo questa cantante e il suo stile musicale...i love musica British !!! purtroppo non conosco inglese!!!...sorry

[@johnluna1624]

ANZAC day yesterday

[@diana99hd]

[@violaschumann5661]

the answer; rust

[@douglasarthur2673]

Doesn't Mick H look Baltic ?

[@louduva9849]

Bizarre comment.

[@amiranmsuknishvili1742]

PJ you're bunny

[@FrostMan92]

the guys seem like they dont wanna be there? idk.

[@louduva9849]

Bad reading.

[@Rajat_1010]

Louis was my dearest friend Fighting in the ANZAC trench Louis ran forth from the line I never saw him again Later in the dark I thought I heard Louis' voice Calling for his mother, then me But I couldn't get to him He's still up on that hill 20 years on that hill Nothing more than a pile of bones But I think of him still If I was asked I'd tell The colour of the earth that day It was dull and browny red The colour of blood, I'd say

[@zlatkoacimovic1520]

❤

[@diana99hd]