Uploaded April 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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‘A Child’s Question, August’ is taken from the new album ‘I Inside the Old Year Dying’, out now on Partisan Records: pjharvey.lnk.to/iinsidetheoldyeardyingID

Film by Steve Gullick & PJ Harvey
Commissioned by John Moule

Polly Jean Harvey - vocals, guitar
John Parish - drums, synth, piano, Rhodes
Cecil - keyboards
Ben Whishaw - backing vocals

Produced by Flood & John Parish

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LYRICS:

Starling swarms will soon be lorn.
Rooks tell stories ’cross the corn.
Goocoo soon will ’es leave make.
Swifts abandon autumn’s ache.
What says dunnick, drush or dove?
Love Me Tender? Tender love?

Hear the grinding wheel-bird grieve.
Grief unknits my ravelled sleeve.
Death of zummer, death of play,
Waxing night and dwindling day.
Help me dunnick, drush and dove.
Love Me Tender. Tender love.

Executive Producer: Sumit Bothra
Management : Sumit Bothra, Brian Message, Olivia Plunket for ATC Management

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