Devendra Banhart is a Venezuelan American singer-songwriter and visual artist. He was born in Houston, Texas and raised in Venezuela until his teenage years, when he moved to California.
This is the third song off of Banhart's 2005 album, Cripple Crow, which was released by XL Records. The album was Banhart's most neatly produced recording to date and featured a large cast of collaborators, including Vetiver, Noah Georgeson, and Thom Monohan, among others.
I heard somebody say That the war ended today But everybody knows it's goin' still Our motherlands and motherseas Here's what we believe It's simple We don't want to kill I heard somebody say That the war ended today But everybody knows its goin' still Our motherlands and motherseas Here's what we believe It's simple We don't want to kill Oh, it's simple We don't want to kill Oh, it's simple We don't want to kill Oh, it's simple