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Genius Annotation

This song, penned by Richey Edwards before his disappearance, is written about the life and death of Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Kevin Carter. Carter committed suicide in 1994, three months after winning a Pulitzer Prize for an image he took the previous year of a starving child crawling to a food station that was some distance away.

The song seems to highlight the disconnect between the fame Carter gained and the photographs of unspeakable atrocities he took, and the way this cognitive dissonance eventually drove Carter to take his own life.

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