Will silence be promised as violence display

A two-minute silence was had today.  It made me think of two songs that I think you should listen to.

"1916" is not your traditional pedal-to-the-metal, we-play-rock-and-roll! Motörhead: it's their other side, the unusually thoughtful, wartime-history-retelling-Lemmy Motörhead.  It's short and slow and poignant.

Today's blip though is by Yes, with their much, much longer but majestic "The Gates of Delirium".  Jon Anderson based the lyrics loosely on Tolstoy's War and Peace, and the music is sharp, angry, aggressive, questioning, reflective and calming.  The battle section midway through always makes me think of trenches, pitched fights with pistols, the cavalry, the horses pulling gun carriages through quagmire, and everyone and everything being shot to pieces.

We might not forget, but as a world we have also learned nothing.