“Like much of Let England Shake, "The Words That Maketh Murder" is extremely pretty, with autoharp strum drifting around a perky rock'n'roll rhythm, a hopscotch vocal melody, and a fat, jolly horn. And its lyrics, of course, aren't pretty in the slightest-- a slideshow of war imagery, much drawn from Goya's Disasters of War sequence of pictures.
The point isn't to subvert the attractive music, thou”
