“This Bitter Earth” By Max Richter This bitter Earth Well, what fruit it bears? Ooooh This bitter Earth And if my life Is like the dust Oooh, that hides The glow of a rose What good am I? Heaven only knows. Lord, this bitter Earth Yes, can be so cold Today you’re young Too soon, you’re old But while a voice Within me cries I’m sure someone may answer my call. And this bitter Earth Ooooh, may not Ooooh, be so bitter After all. This bitter Earth Lord, this bitter Earth What good is love
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Mmmm, that no one shares? And if my life Is like the dust That hides The glow of a rose What good am I? Heaven only knows. —- “-you’re all British, aren’t you? – would have been able to put ip abetted show than that… ” The officer to the children (ashamed and embarrassed) I relate this song to Ch. 12, “Cry of the Hunters” in “Lord of the Flies” because it relates directly toward the officer who saved the savage boys and also ties together the book, being the ending song.
An Officer comes to rescue the boys off the island and is shocked of how savage these supposed to be well mannered English boys have become. In the book it sates he is embarrassed and this is so because he reilizes himself and the world he is apart of is no different than these savage dehumanized boys. “Dust” in the song is like battle scars or negative events in life that has changed a character such as the officer and the boys; it covers up “glow of a rose” meaning innocence, knowledgeable humans, purity, and the overall goodness in a person.
The allegory shown through out the book is stated in the song “today you’re young Too soon you’re old” meaning the boys and their generation will become just like the war fighting adults such as in the officers generation. Also in the book the officer saves the children but who will save him? “God only knows”. He is sad just like in the song and hopes someone will come to save him.
