Musical Memory Box: Distant Sun Edition

Friday’s Musical Memory Box solution: What’s Going On, Marvin Gaye, What’s Going On, 1971. Marc Dubé continues his strong April.

This song was placed very high in Rolling Stone’s Top 500 songs of all-time. A very strong anti-Viet Nam statement, also sung by Cuba Gooding Jr. in Jerry McGuire.

Here are your lyrics for today:

“Arms raised in a ‘V’

The dead lay in pools of maroon below.”