{"id":13167,"date":"2019-01-17T11:57:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T09:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2019\/01\/17\/colonel-bagshot-six-day-war"},"modified":"2019-01-17T11:57:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T09:57:58","slug":"colonel-bagshot-six-day-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2019\/01\/17\/colonel-bagshot-six-day-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonel Bagshot: Six Day War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pHAQA8FJP3c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em>From the 1971 album, &#8220;Oh, What a Lovely War,&#8221; many believe that this depresssing anti-war song entitled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/pHAQA8FJP3c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Six Day War<\/a>&#8221; by the British rock band, Colonel Bagshot, is indeed about the Israeli-Arab Six Day War of 1967. The lyrics, provided on screen and below, describe a progressively worsening war lasting six days, which begins with the breaking down of peace talks and ends with the aftermath of dropping a bomb. Inherently pessimistic, the repeating line of the song, &#8220;Tomorrow never comes until it&#8217;s too late,&#8221; suggests that, even in a short war of only six days, violence seems like an eternity that causes irreparable damage, trauma and loss.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Six Day War<\/h2>\n<p>At the starting of the week<br \/>\nAt summit talks you&#8217;ll hear them speak<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s only Monday<\/p>\n<p>Negotiations breaking down<br \/>\nSee those leaders start to frown<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s sword and gun day<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow never comes until it&#8217;s too late<\/p>\n<p>You could be sitting taking lunch<br \/>\nThe news will hit you like a punch<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s only Tuesday<\/p>\n<p>You never thought we&#8217;d go to war<br \/>\nAfter all the things we saw<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s April Fools&#8217; day<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow never comes until it&#8217;s too late<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll all go running underground<br \/>\nAnd we&#8217;ll be listening for the sound<br \/>\nIts only Wednesday<\/p>\n<p>In your shelter dimly lit<br \/>\nTake some wool and learn to knit<br \/>\nCos its a long day<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow never comes until it&#8217;s too late<\/p>\n<p>You hear a whistling overhead<br \/>\nAre you alive or are you dead?<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s only Thursday<\/p>\n<p>You feel the shaking of the ground<br \/>\nA billion candles burn around<br \/>\nIs it your birthday?<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow never comes until it&#8217;s too late<\/p>\n<p>Although that shelter is your home<br \/>\nA living space you have outgrown<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s only Friday<\/p>\n<p>As you come out to the light<br \/>\nCan your eyes behold the sight<br \/>\nIt must be doomsday<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow never comes until it&#8217;s too late<\/p>\n<p>Ain&#8217;t it funny how men think<br \/>\nThey made the bomb, they are extinct<br \/>\nIts only Saturday<\/p>\n<div class=\"dfp_unit dfp_unit--in_read u-xx_large_top_margin\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-desktop_song_inread2-desktop_song_inread2-1547718495949\" class=\"dfp_unit-ad_container\" data-google-query-id=\"CLmn3d7E9N8CFdcX4AodOl0HmA\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/342026871\/desktop_song_inread2_0__container__\">I think tomorrow&#8217;s come I think its too late<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I think tomorrow&#8217;s come I think its too late<\/p>\n<p>Make tomorrows come I think it&#8217;s too late<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the 1971 album, &#8220;Oh, What a Lovely War,&#8221; many believe that this depresssing anti-war song entitled &#8220;Six Day War&#8221; by the British rock band, Colonel Bagshot, is indeed about the Israeli-Arab Six Day War of 1967. The lyrics, provided on screen and below, describe a progressively worsening war lasting six days, which begins with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":13168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[2554],"tags":[2421,2413,2409,2431,2426],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13167\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=13167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13167\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13168\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=13167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=13167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=13167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}