What We Have Known: Music Revealing the Timeless Nature of War

Californian folk singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom’s What We Have Known grapples with the state of the world at the time it was released; first in 2003 on her EP Yarn and Glue and later as the B-side to her single Sprout and the Bean in 2004. In analysing its lyrics, Newsom ruminates on the idea of war and the destruction it causes.