Happy Easter. Someone at Progarchy usually posts some version of Marillion’s “Easter” every year, but this year it seems more fitting than ever. The lyrics of the song refer to The Troubles Ireland experienced for much of the second half of the twentieth century, and the title and lyrics also reference William Butler Yeats’ poem, “Easter, 1916,” about the 1916 Irish rebellion. In troubled times like these, with violent bloody wars popping up all over threatening to draw us back into darker times, Marillion’s “Easter” rings out truer than ever:

What will you do?
Make a stone of your heart?
Will you set things right
When you tear them apart?
Will you sleep at night
With the plough and the stars alight?