Kevin Carter Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Hi TIME Magazine, hi Pulitzer Prize
Tribal scars in Technicolor
Bang-Bang Club, AK-47 hour
[Chorus]
Kevin Carter
[Verse 2]
Hi TIME Magazine, hi Pulitzer Prize
Vulture stalked white piped lie forever
Wasted your life in black and white
[Chorus]
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
[trumpet solo]
[Chorus]
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
Hi TIME Magazine, hi Pulitzer Prize
Tribal scars in Technicolor
Bang-Bang Club, AK-47 hour
[Chorus]
Kevin Carter
[Verse 2]
Hi TIME Magazine, hi Pulitzer Prize
Vulture stalked white piped lie forever
Wasted your life in black and white
[Chorus]
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
[trumpet solo]
[Chorus]
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
About
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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Release Date
May 20, 1996
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