Suicide in the Trenches

[mward1995]

Peter didn't write the lyics (originally poem) but lovely rendition.

[bilalgill101]

that was really cool

[Paronic]

love it!!! thanks for putting this up mate. BIG THUMBS UP (like)

[soccerholic101]

this is lovely

[mikychun]

this is so cool. good job

[andrewislike]

Very well done !

Which program did you use to make the animation ?

[lilbarstrd]

my teacher used this we did a hole topic about it it was really sad :)

[somorastik]

voonderful. thank you

[Stazica11]

I don't know why but this song seems abit creepy to me.

[missextra5]

this is realy gud i had to do an english essay on this and the charge of the light brigade it realy help it helped more than reading thee poem off paper

[Aan0nyme]

good job !

<3

excellent !!

[UngracfulGracie]

Does anyone know the chords for guitar? :)

[rockfeller2005]

its C,G,C,F

[jokekneesociety]

doesn't he make cramps and lice and lack of rum sound lovely? :)

[ooodzy]

haha he always says cramps but it crumps, always gives me a little grin haha

[JamesD567]

good stuff!

[aaRebourS]

I love your video :)

[Doctorwhite1995]

obviously everyone has watched this in english :-)

hi class if your see this in english!!! its david

[nimmnypimmny]

I asked the teacher if we could watch this when we did war poetry but stupidly our school doesnt do youtube

[CauseYourMyWaterloo]

i love it :)

[craziyiota]

we watched this english, really good

[Doctorwhite1995]

and i saw your comment in english lol :-)

[thewirrow]

dude this is brilliant

[rachielass1]

We watched this in english, cant get the words out of me headddd

[threexlittlexbirds]

that was lovely- great job!

[swayuk]

WEll done :).

I know he's singing it a bit up beat for that poem, but i still like the way he does it.

[emilysingsomething]

i don't think he is singing it too up beat for the poem at all. the poem is a representation of the ignorance of people, therefore the up beat tone of the song, in my opinion, is very fitting.

[swayuk]

hmm i suppose so.

like a sort of mockery of people who havn't experienced war

[falstaffswims]

well said. relief, or disparity, or whatever: the surest cure for cliche. if you want to scare somebody, you don't play "tocatta in fugue." (which I can' spell.) it's a cliche now. ghosts these days ought to sing eerily cheerful stuff. if you want to make somebody feel as awfully sad as they ought to feel (about things like war, which our culture alternately ignores and celebrates, and always misunderstands), you don't sing a dirge: you sing, smiling, about cheerful things gone to hell.

[emilysingsomething]

definitely

[AccountForWhat]

I agree, but instead, I would say that the upbeat way its sung here suits the poem because the majority of Sassoon's war poetry is satirical and even sarcastic at times. He talks about such gruesome and miserable things in such a light, yet often aggressive way, that his poems really make an impression.

[juicylucyify]

and also the rhyming structure makes it sound like a nursery rhyme, a bit like Jessie Pope's style so he may be criticising or making satire of her lack of experience?

[16011992bec16011992]

i think that he hasn't shown the true feeling and emotion in this poem. it is a poem about a soldier who kills himself and it is not sung that way at all.

He could have put alot more emotion into it!!!

I hated it it drove me insane

[catsinbluewood]

That's not true in my opinion. The guitar is up beat but if you listen carefully to his voice you can clearly hear the depression and sadness of his soul he puts into the song. The poem fits him very well, i think. Probably he considers himself that soldier of life who'd sometimes (or even often) rather like to shoot himself than to live on. But who knows...

[benbebin]

i think deriving from the nme acceptance speech that him and carl are the soldiers fighting, and they are sick of the crowds media cheering when it just saddens them

[ehyyouupinthesky]

hi! sorry can you send me the mp3 of this song?

[7iggy]

erm, yeah sure. If you give me your e-mail I could try..

[ykonstanza]

lovely...just lovely.(L)

[LostGentlemen]

"a lovely song" ?!?!?!? LOVELY!

ehermm...

ziggy lad, ever heard of Siegfried Sassoon?

[adaveen]

This is great - thanks for linking it to the recitation. :D

[cultureleech]

This is just so great. Thank-you.

[lovefoxxxSUXXX]

amazing.

[AlisonFasheeta]

Adorably tragic. I love this, you did a brilliant job.

[lubydub]

woa, how did you animate this?

[lemondroprecipe]

pretty cool!

[chiipadme88]

that's so good... great work! love it!

[halifaxshayman27]

one of the greatest poems of all time, imho, and pete did a fabulous job of putting it to music.

[Oo5WoO]

aw i like that video!

[dunnefornow]

fuck this

[ElsaIna]

I really love this video. I really love this song & this is my favorite poem:)

Bless, Pete sang the wrong words. its "cheer as soldior lads march by" not boys.

[silverbiscuit]

He made more than one mistake...

'grinned AT life'

'CRUMPS and lice and lack of rum'

'bullet IN his brain'

'YOU smug-faced crowds'

and, like you said 'soldier LADS march by'

[jamesinho]

he didnt make mistakes, both doherty and barat are fans of sassoon, its called artistic license

[silverbiscuit]

Yeh, sorry but cramps instead of crumps is a blatant mistake.

[jamesinho]

dont worry, i accept your apology. I'd like to hear you do better tho when your cracked off your tits

[silverbiscuit]

Luckily for me, though, I am not. You're right, it's probably the secret of my being able to recite literature without fucking it up. Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of Pete Doherty and I think it's tragic what he's doing to himself, and I'm massively in favour of reciting poetry, especially Siegfried Sassoon. I guess I just think if you're going to plagiarise, you might as well do it properly.

[jamesinho]

plagarise? go on and fuck off, he's not passing it off as his own, numb nuts. Its a tribute and there is nothing shameful or deceitful about it...if he releases is as a single that says music and lyrics by Pete Doherty then maybe you'l have a point...maybe

[hugstrees11]

This is... amazing.

[keeesler]

Favorite poem and done very well by Pete.

[tutuldok]

Oh that's beautiful. I didn't know Pete wrote music to that poem.

[r23r]

Where'd you get the recorded version of this?

[7iggy]

My sister downloaded it, and than she sended it to me ;)

[billybilo23]

@7iggy This is a wonderful animation, very inspiring, you may have a talent.

[musicluver92]

love it its one of my favorite poems

[whiteriot2]

Lovely

[texyrock]

is this pete?

[7iggy]

yes it is ;)

[blindhobosam]

ace :)

[azinasnick]

really cool work keep on going like that..=)

[carlbaratbeauty]

love it also like thealbum cover on the background

[silla89]

love it