That's the name of the Led Zeppelin song that fetes the English bard, who also sang vocals on Have A Cigar from Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here album and put out an album with Jimmy Page entitled Jugula. Well, he's also put out a courageous and very personally dangerous anti-violence-in-the-name-of-religion song that should have Muslim fundy mullah fatwas cranking. The lyrics are below.
The Black Cloud of Islam By Roy Harper
I'm sick to the teeth of the news on the screen
Of Hisbullah scum and Jihad the obscene
Whose men plant the bombs and then live feeling free
To watch women and children be killed on T.V.
Which Satan delivers a child a death curse
In the name of a worn out collection of verse?
I've not read the book so I cannot recite
But I'd bet Salman Rushdie is just about right
Underneath the black cloud of Islam.
What kind of publicity needs so much blood
That's not for some sad diabolical God
Selling himself as a two-bit Macbeth
As they expert in sentencing cousins to death?
And what kind of God can this be anyway
That you have to prostrate to him five times a day
With hate in your heart and a gun in your hand?
Is force the only thing to understand
Underneath the black cloud of Islam?
And the butchers who've got all this blood on their hands
Are the ones who need God to be stood where he stands
Blessing this kidnapping, murder and war
With books written hundreds of ages before.
And woman in veils walking paces behind
Doesn't sit easy in my kind of mind.
It speaks of oppression and no other choice
Than rigid compliance with the loudest voice
Underneath the black cloud of Islam.
You can put a lead bullet clean through this guitar
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