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"Taro"

Indochina, Capa jumps Jeep, two feet creep up the road
To photo, to record meat lumps and war
They advance as does his chance, very yellow white flash
A violent wrench grips mass, rips light, tears limbs like rags

Burst so high finally Capa lands
Mine is a watery pit
Painless with immense distance
From medic from colleague, friend, enemy, foe
Him five yards from his leg, from you, Taro

Do not spray into eyes, I have sprayed you into my eyes

3:10 PM, Capa pends death, quivers, last rattles, last chokes
All colors and cares glaze to gray, shriveled and stricken to dots
The left hand grasps what the body grasps not,
Le photographe est mort

Three, point, one, four, one, five, alive no longer my amour,
Faded for home May of '54
Doors open like arms my love,
Painless with a great closeness
To Capa, to Capa, Capa dark after nothing, re-united with his leg and with you, Taro
Taro

Do not spray into eyes, I have sprayed you into my eyes
Hey Taro

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Thanks to Ian Neilson, nobodyisme, Tim Peterson for correcting these lyrics.

Writer(s): Thomas Green, Joe Newman, Augustus Unger Hamilton, Gwilym Sainsbury

This song tells a story about two photographers, who were engaged, but both died on the front line: Gerda Taro and Robert Capa. Frontman Joe Newman told the Guardian, "I liked those two and that story. That really gripped me and I really trawled through as much as I could to get a good song out of it."

Joe Newman explained to NME, "The song's about that period just before he steps on the landmine. The two seconds before and two seconds after. It's a four-minute song about four seconds."