PJ Harvey - White Chalk

PJ Harvey performing White Chalk for From The Basement.

Recorded at The Hospital Studios, London in 2007.

www.fromthebasement.tv

Category:

Music

Tags:

• PJ
• Harvey
• White
• Chalk
• From
• The
• Basement
• Hospital
• Studios
• Covent
• Garden
• London
• Nigel
• Godrich

[seeldee]

It's not about cocaine, but about the chalky cliffs of the southern coast of England, where she's from. It's a pretty literal song, as far as I can tell.

[sylvanhart]

This performance is so dreamlike, I love it.

[ridjam]

@subterrabln That was what I felt in the last verse. Can't anyone read or hear the word white without making a link to cocaine. It's insulting to this artist, who has REAL substance by the bucketload, not "illicit substances." To suggest a link to drugs is simply puerile.

[odmoa]

@subterrabln PJ's mentality is that every song isn't about anything and is about everything. It's up to us to feel the melody and lyrics and find our own meaning in it. As she said herself: "The song inhabits itself, really."

[subterrabln]

this song is about child abortion. she compares the chalk cliffs of dorset to the white chalky bones of a child. and there's blood on her hand. - listen to the lyrics.

[stuartmcfly]

Get a fucking grip about coke!!! Always with fucking drug references!

Enjoy an absolutely brilliant ballad sung to perfection.

PJ, we love you.

[beau09]

she just cleared her throat and its music already!

[evilagent]

I only discovered PJ Harvey this summer, by accident. Now I own every album. I am in love, love, love.

[Psygnus]

i wish i were that harmonica <3

[JAMI3M]

The harmonica on this is so nice. Sunday is gonna be amazing.

[armsofathief]

running the vocals through that tiny ass vox is such a cool idea!!

[66femo]

too much echo, but I still love it