Love and Napalm
1994 · Numa 1011 · UK: England
- Artist
- Gary Numan
- Title
- Love and Napalm
- Release
- Sacrifice
- Year
- 1994
- Label
- Numa # 1011
- Language
- English
- Country
- UK: England
- Genre
- Rock · Industrial Rock
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — European Songs
Love And Napalm (Numan, Gary). (Numa Records # NUMA 1011). Industrial rock. UK. Post-war 90s. Reference to the book The Atrocity Exhibition by JG Ballard, which had a chapter called Love and Napalm: Export USA.12 New York Times review of book "His hero, Travis (sometimes called Talbot, Trabert, Travers, and Tallis) is having a nervous breakdown -- a crack-up of his own, you might say -- and in the interrelated sections of the book he drools over the arousal potential of Kennedy's assassination, the napalming of peasants, the atrocity movie, science in general ("the ultimate pornography"), radiation burns on one's intended, and finally observations on "the latent sexual character" of the Vietnam war, which lead him to conclude with the deranged imagining that this war, for Americans, is a form of love".3Sources1Wikipedia: The Atrocity Exhibition↩2Napalm: An American Biography (Robert M. Neer, 2013)↩3New York Times↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: "Call me Deadliner, nothing in here but dust / Are you afraid dear listener? Nothing in here but us / I'll give you black rumours, 'stay away from everything I've seen' / I'll give you black rumours, 'stay away from everyone I've been' / The broken sound of love and lies still fill your room / Faded memories of shame, will find you soon / I'll give you corrosion, miracles are never what they seem / I'll give you corrosion, welcome to the nightmare, not the dream / I can remember everything, every promise, every lie / And how the words of strangers made me cry / All the pride, all the shame, all the friends that came from nowhere / And then hurried back again, I collected scars like a man at war / And I thought 'isn't life peculiar, desire takes you there, but not back' / No more, I'm just another old story, when God heard your prayer / It said 'I am not your friend', laughed like a fallen angel / And said 'I've no love to send', it keeps a photograph / It likes to overdose on time, it said 'time to leave' / Like other friends of mine, I'll give you dark wonders / You are all invited to the show, I'll give you dominions / You are all invited to the show, I'll give you dead heroes / You are all invited to the show, I'll give you love and napalm"
About the artist
English electronic musician, born 8 March 1958 in London. [Source: Wikipedia]