‘Set the sails; I feel the winds a’stirring.’ So begins the song, ‘Charlie Darwin,’ by the rock band The Low Anthem. Frontman Ben Knox Miller describes how the band came up with the tune and its darker message, ‘Who could heed the words of Charlie Darwin? Fighting for a system built to fail.’
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