PJ Harvey - The Last Living Rose

[@jamesjukebox2386]

A West Country girl ,the truly last living rose of England, genius.

[@claireakebrand]

This perfectly captures the immense joy / ache of being a human attached to places. I went to see a Shakespeare play at the Globe and the Thames shone like gold--this song will always remind me of what I felt. Such a gift to have found a soundtrack to a favorite memory. Thank you, PJ.

[@HullzOSRS]

Oh man, this song just reminds me of E-Dubble. RIP. What a king.

[@peterfrance702]

Nestled between ocean's shimmer and quiver is the last living rose. Quiver, shiver, quim, queen.

[@org1969]

Goddamn Europeans Take me back to beautiful England! And the grey, damp filthiness of ages and battered books And fog rolling down behind the mountains On the graveyards and dead sea captains Let me walk through the stinking alleys To the music of drunken beatings Past the Thames river, glistening like gold Hastily sold for nothing, nothing Let me watch night fall on the river Moon rise up and turn to silver The sky move, the ocean shimmer The hedge shake, the last living rose quiver

[@org1969]

Really good lyric

[@7anburo]

The emptiness this woman sings from is as astonishing as the beauty of her lyrics and voice. Thanks PJ endlessly for your music. You are amazing, even though maybe you don't want to hear it :) :)

[@XorangeXmangoXspiceX]

I love this song so much its practically inexpressible.

[@aelizak1643]

Love this song ❤ There's such beauty in her tragic words

[@andrewleyden2752]

Thank you, PJ, for this song.

[@robertkelly9508]

She really is class in every respect, with this which I guess is like her more poetic music with social commentary, critique of britain , to her more Rocky "This is Love " or "Big Exit", no wonder she won the Mercury music prize twice.Just sheer intelligent class, mixed with beautiful looks! Rock on PJ, your fans think you are da best! Rob

[@christopherdodds7682]

Living in London, after having grown up in the sticks...Finally dawning on me how much I really really do miss England!

[@northleedspoppa]

Edgy 🤡

[@connorbarnett1254]

So genuine, so underrated ❤️

[@hirenpatel2678]

underrated? This is critically acclaimed

[@Chaziltasm]

Funny that it shows driving shots when the trumpets kick in because I always listen to this in the car. Perfect driving music. This is my favorite song on the album. Beautiful enough to make me want to cry. Well done PJ.

[@bushranger100]

Pj Is a unique, a very rare specimen, no need for comparisons as nothing comes close!

[@janmoritzstriemer4892]

For me this song is perfection in song writing. Like the whole Let Englang Shake Album indeed. But what makes this one special for me: When you give a lot of shit against your country or how it was involved in war and global unjustice (which is totally justified for many western nations) then it´s still nice to show how you can´t escape from your love for that country.

[@Spls32]

We still love you, England! Here's one goddamn European from Slovakia hoping we can still be friends after the Brexit thing too.

[@MephProduction]

of course, we just don't want to share a political union... cause you know we're different.

[@brizzolglover7518]

Just because the Sun is the number one selling paper in Blighty doesn’t mean that we are all little Englanders...

[@brizzolglover7518]

@Bittersteel most empires are forged on exploitation. I love Blighty and at the same time feel embarrassed of our past and present. Another bittersweet symphony… 🎶🖤

[@anthonyseye]

@Bittersteel what sort of social contract are food banks and never ending NHS waiting lists, shortage of affordable housing, wish I lived in your UK. I think you are living in a fantasy, enjoy

[@JM-kx7dh]

Love you, all Slovakians. - England

[@MrJapaca]

This woman is love.

[@NewKillerStar21]

PJ Harvey reinventandose, sus inicios me gustan mas, pero este disco me gusto mucho

[@sports872]

Best song on the album

[@maungarakei]

1:54 = musical bliss

[@Rajat_1010]

Hell yeah !!

[@emiliapach1377]

This is what Music was made for. The Best thing I heard and saw today. When something moves you so deeply as this song, you feel just graceful to be able to feel song strong and intense.

[@tomrb4834]

Her best song ever.

[@roiybenkel682]

Goddamn' Europeans Take me back to beautiful England And the grey, damp filthiness of ages And battered books And fog rolling down behind the mountains And on the graveyards, and dead sea-captains Let me walk through the stinking alleys To the music of drunken beatings Past the Thames River, glistening like gold Hastily sold for nothing, nothing Let me watch night fall on the river The moon rise up and turn to silver The sky move The ocean shimmer The hedge shake The last living rose quiver

[@ebtsoby]

MY MOMMA TOLD ME, ONE DAY I'MMA GROW UP BIG AND I'MMA BE A KING

[@antonyetheridge1050]

she is a class act....so are her band.

[@stellawong5109]

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@Patrick-jr1gh]

RIP e-dubble

[@mrleonmusic]

when I first heard this album , I hated it, after seeing her live , the music came alive and now I hear it for what it is, PJ Harvey truly is ahead of her time!

[@yurikeukens4148]

:D

[@clasbin77]

Maybe, some day, this will be one of the great poems of English literature.

[@Pedozzi]

i honestly thought this song was from like 25 years ago, mind blown

[@TangoSket]

I walked into WH Smith's yesterday and was surprised to see a cover of a magazine catch my eye- the issue that month was solely on PJ Harvey!

[@bill500carphead]

2024 heard it on 6 music years ago and loved it then

[@yogibabubiednymis]

Kocham Panią!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@charlyjouve3899]

Pj is The Best!!!!!

[@DynomiteKid65]

imma be a king

[@istnichtsicher2713]

Mama told me, one day ima grow up big and ima be a king.

[@BABYCHAOS26]

I’m gonna have this played at my funeral

[@casandrachamorrocastillo6084]

X2

[@emiliapach1377]

Funny. The same crossed my mind today.

[@cranberrie72]

Pure morceau

[@k3n9275]

Как будто побывала на выставке фотографий под прекрасную музыку. Спасибо

[@chrishannon8187]

I like this song..would be great on an American series it movie .

[@db5vry]

I never liked PJ Harvey's music, heard it when I was 15 and was like well this is a bit too weird! Heard e-dubble sample this, so checked out the original and to be fair this is one hell of a song, she deserves another chance for sure!

[@Wieselkatze]

I heard Be a king from edubble and was blown away by the great sample in the background so I checked this out and I am quite impressed

[@yurikeukens4148]

Did you check out the rest of the album?

[@gibboj94]

I love Adele; I love Harvey. I love Bruno Mars; I love Metallica. I love Lady Gaga; I love System of a Down. I love Cypress Hill; I love Eric Clapton. I love DJ Tiesto; I love The Gallows. I love the Cure; I love Fredric Chopon. I love Eminem; I love Pink Floyd. I love poets of the fall; I love Placebo. Bottom line is, I love music regardless of popularity or genre. If it sounds good, then it's the track for me :)

[@karentheconqueror]

Love your voice!!

[@cosdrag8807]

Reminds me of Kate Bush - Oh England My Lionheart. Both different ways of expressing the same thing of course

[@nuuuabo]

best song in the album iktr

[@Kam1kazeEsports]

PJ Love your music. Goddess

[@inlimbo001]

Wow the video is as amazing as the song ;-) I LOVE PJ

[@Thomas-hz8jn]

I'm an Irish republican,my brother was killed in the war Along with my three cousins and my mother. I never hated the English just their government in my country. The English like all nations did many things to be ashamed off they also did many things to be proud off. They deserve their own country and to keep their customs and ways. They are not responsible for all the evil in the world all of us are as individuals who make bad choices. My point as an Irish republican is I made a peace with you . I respect your nation and I object to you being deprived of your land and colonised without your consent. This song is called the last living English rose, we Irish sang about the last rose of summer, Mary Mac craken who's brother' Henry was hung in 1798, she lived until she was an old woman took a locket of her brothers hair before they hung him and kept it until she died. She paid for ships to stop the slave trade. She was the last living rose but England is entitled to be a nation, free not Only free but English also with the right to define itself. It will probably make no difference but it is kinda funny that after 800 years of conflict between us we are both going to be replaced by new people's and our traditions destroyed, strange. T

[@JolPil]

Better than the beatles, pure english genius!

[@Jabberstax]

❤

[@BabilonMC]

my name is E-Duble Her name is PJ Harvey! mama told me!

[@stepsischaralie]

One day you're going to blow up big and be a king

[@toroidevstrasformador]

gostei do som parabens pj ...

[@Kradiancy]

No, that's contrasting them, comparing means distinguishing similarities between two things. Contrasting two different things is essentially the point. Also, no comments for a month? That's depressing...

[@DecoMcA65]

1:14-1:32 for the Edubble part!

[@modestohocohuoc1320]

amooooo

[@redbird285]

WW the first ONE

[@geoffhummerstone]

fanietabbydoobeeee!

[@Tagvillainy]

First time I heard this was on virgin media tv home screen lol

[@19750bob]

my momma told me

[@TangoSket]

YESSSSSSS

[@seiikashiri]

yeah me too

[@stepsischaralie]

One day imma blow up big and be a king and my papa told me

[@K3nzyy1416]

@@stepsischaralie its ok to sing when shit hurts dont forget your dreams

[@gordoning76]

A lot of commenters on this song don't seem to have quite got the idea that a singer can speak with very different voices on one album. PJ Harvey is an absolute master of this: many of her songs (e.g. 'Man Size') are very clearly written to parody a certain, rather chauvinistic, male point of view ("... Cast my eye and knickers down!"). I think this is one of them. Having said that, yes I can quite easily see it being used as a far-right anthem (probably not by UKIP though as they are not *supposed* to be English nationalists) because I doubt they would get the irony either.

[@zemirka1]

+Gordon Ingram ok....Gordon Ingram.....Polly is my favourite singer and I love and adore her very much....BUT......look this Continent and ( you can't imagine my Country.....they....the big corporations tear it apart) ....well.....read some books about Trianon and Hungary......we suffer enough from england and some similar "BIG" countries so much.....we had enough.......and enough is enough......I understand Polly's words.......but the world turns.....(sorry about my poor english knowledge)

[@zemirka1]

+Peter Kiss so......not "goddamn Europians" .....but Goddamn USA....Israel......and the money-hungry countries and Wars and every fucking people,who dont care about the LIFE and the Treasure,what our God given Wonder.....and this is The LIFE .....so.....Goddamn New World Order makers....and so on....

[@joiedeceivre]

clearly only the English understand irony

[@dirkheuser2523]

honestly, to my ears these particular lyrics do not sound like irony at all. But maybe I just don`t get it right.

[@gordoning76]

It's because the tone is not ironic, it's jaunty and upbeat. But look carefully at the actual meaning of the words. She's not being at all positive about England!

[@Headmasterritual92]

Adele has a very good voice and is decent in her own way, but I don't think there is any comparison to even be made between PJH and her. Adele is a bestseller because she's easy to listen to for ABSOLUTELY everyone and does quite a good job. PJ, I believe, is in a different league. She's musically more interesting, lyrically more insightful and way cooler. Adele is alright, but when it comes down to it, she's just a simple appetiser to PJ Harvey's majestic banquet.

[@BrianNeil]

Fab!

Epic.

[@badgerag]

Polly, I'd absolutely love to take stills or videography to accompany one of your songs in the future, here's hoping :)

[@robertkelly9508]

I thought she said Bog Rolls drawing in as I went to Adsa for some bog roll during Covid19 but it was shut.....

[@joaoirineo2054]

50 ft Queenie of the Rock! Adele is a begginer near to Polly Jean!!! Hope to see you in Portugal!!!

[@nuuuabo]

GODDDAMN EUROPEAAAANS

[@cazdinleyenkamyonsoforu4174]

She is fucking genius.

[@ricardocabe]

Goddamn Europeans! Take me back to beautiful England And the grey, damp filthiness of ages And battered books and Fog rolling down behind the mountains On the graveyards, and dead sea-captains Let me walk through the stinking alleys To the music of drunken beatings Past the Thames River, glistening like gold Hastily sold for nothing Nothing Let me watch night fall on the river The moon rise up and turn to silver The sky move The ocean shimmer The hedge shake The last living rose Quiver

[@karlaantonellapedretti]

Let me watch night fall on the river...

[@fharper18]

Quiver

[@almagalhaes1]

@sandwichescornertv true!

[@StefanoVedovatoGHESBOCIO]

HI POLLY...BEAUTIFULL ENGLAND SONG...KISS X YOU.

[@qth029]

1:14

[@jacquelinedalby8543]

Shes definitely up there with Kate

[@Pj676]

@naghoumette Just listen!!:)

[@cactuscat12]

e-Dubble

[@jankocelebic5124]

Love song for Inglan

[@alexshaw0704]

One day I’m gonna grow up and be a king

[@stepsischaralie]

And my papa told me

[@qth029]

@@stepsischaralie its okay to sing when shit hurts dont forget ur dreams

[@agome]

a video to do with e-dubble brought me here

[@CookieMonsterrHD]

haha 2 years later and here with the same reason, your yt channel is awesome btw :p you'll probably not remember that you ever commented on this video but thats cool lol

[@agome]

CookieMonsterrHD Lol, cool to see someone responding to a comment this old. Thanks

[@thescottwino]

Does anyone know who made the video?

[@mathu8]

e-dubble

[@TheAnntokiko]

Nothig...Nothig....I know everthing nothig...

[@sozenkemal]

Bağırarak haykırarak söylenesi

[@m06een00]

Yet another example of where PJ performs the live version way more effectively than the rather lacklustre studio version here. watch?v=P60TuFZIboU

[@MikeyUpTop]

Why's everyone talking about Adele?

[@EdinaTimeLord]

Polly is frakking brilliant. There is no comparison twixt her and anyone else so please sod off with the adele (who????) nonsense. Don't get me wrong, Patti Smith rocks, but she never did an album like 'To Bring You my Love' or 'Let England Shake'. Just sit back and enjoy the brilliance of Polly.

[@NovosBordados]

Comparing Pj with Adele is equivelent to compare God to a nuclear disaster.

[@hsnzmx]

😂

[@shaunatherton8328]

What purpose would it serve anyway to compare the two? it's not like they're competing for anything

[@longshotkdb]

one doesn't exist and the other could kill us all at any moment ? i dont understand ...

[@BibleBlack667]

Apart from - nuclear disasters have happened and are provable. Real, like, as the kids say. "god" is merely a device employed by the powerful to control and subvert the gullible and stupid. Obviously.

[@felipegonzalezsubiabre9148]

I respect both of hers really… the first one compose its own songs, so I think Polly is a winner here

[@nimim.markomikkila1673]

"Goddamn Europeans..." Give us back our beautiful England, huh?

[@owl4260]

a true ode to england...

[@louduva9849]

0:18

[@Fishtefa]

my mama told me.....

[@davidowens5086]

Gallium were going long after that,Ruth.so sorry if it is,we'll talk soon I Ruth.

[@brendaneels]

Be A King by e-dubble

[@lafka6]

I really fail to see what PJ Harvey and Adele have in common. They are both great artists (though PJ has got 20 years of musical career and 10 studio albums under her belt, when Adele has got just 2...), but in very different styles, either from a music point of view, or as regards to their lyrics, attitude, philosophy or whatever. Please explain to me what you see here that escapes me.

[@mariaeugeniapiran973]

Hut

[@ferrosalvioni7209]

I marry you sonetime...Stompy 🤠.

[@naghoumette]

@hidalgo699 ok that was funny, and for that you have my respect :)

[@johnlau4580]

Polly, auch Flugzeugträger müssen ein Mal ins Bett gehen, wir sind erschöpft, aber wir machen weiter.

[@naghoumette]

it's actually good, but i just love adele, big fan of hers. and i still prefer her album.

[@FlavioSilva-iz6lz]

Brexit! Hip hip ! Hurrey!