The result is the exquisitely elegiac closing-credits song “Requiem for a Private War.”
Lennox, who only saw the film after she wrote the song, was struck by an eerie coincidence.
“One of the last things that Marie Colvin is saying [in the film] is Why?
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That’s actually the first word in the beginning of the song.
It’s uncanny,” she says.
“Normally I’m really, really critical of my performances or my recordings,” adds Lennox.
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“I haven’t made any plans to write any other songs,” she says.
“It’s a strange one.
She still sounds endearingly star struck when she recalls recording with one of her heroes.
She suddenly said, Equal pay, hear what we say.'
Equal pay,hear what we say.”
