"Bile and Lies" - Marsh Family parody of The Eagles "Lyin' Eyes" about JD Vance views on Henry Nowak

“Lyin’ Eyes” was written by Don Henley and Glenn Frey, released by California’s rock legends The Eagles in 1975. It was apparently inspired by their visions of many beautiful younger women with older husbands in Los Angeles, who they imagined leading double lives and lying and cheating. So it’s a story about moral reprobates, hypocrisy, double standards, and virtual self-prostitution, which made it perfect to adapt to address J.D. Vance’s latest foray into European politics.

Plenty of muck-stirrers had already sought to whip up anger and outrage in the wake of the tragic murder of Henry Nowak, and the horrendous footage and troubling backstory. These included Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson, Rupert Lowe, and Elon Musk. But Vance – who had met several of the more disturbing UK ‘politicians’ last summer – in his inimitable style took things to a new level.

Vance showed wanton disregard for the grieving Nowak family’s own stated request: “We do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred, or tension.” He shared footage of the eighteen-year-old’s ghastly final moments, let down by mistakes by British police officers under huge stress, and crassly linked it to fears about migration, civilisational collapse, hatred, invasion and anger. It was a sick message that has been amplified on Twitter/X and, at point of writing, has over 10m views.
We didn’t even have time to get into the hypocrisy of casting stones across the Atlantic by this administration or this chameleon. But the song’s intended to express that the behaviours, ideologies and values that Vance and his ilk embody, particularly in this tragic moment, are anathema to most in the UK, and we suspect most Europeans. They are like a cancerous cell in the tissue of what we understand being ‘civilised’ means, and they are threatening to metastasise.

Background info here:
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpvpv2xylgeo
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/05/us-diplomats-response-to-henry-nowak-incendiary

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LYRICS
When this world just seems all full of worry
How to end the wars and reconcile?
Here comes Vance, that breathing human slurry
A national disgrace, in trademark style

So don’t tell me he don’t know that he’s deceiving
To come out and inflame on baseless grounds
But he shows no compassion for the grieving
When they said they didn’t want hate spread around

We don’t buy your bile and lies
And as for lives that you vandalise …
The more you talk, we realize:
That J.D. Vance is how civilisation dies

He whips up a call for “righteous anger”
And dares to pick at scars and vilify
He’s either quite a monster or a moron
I guess with aid, a maggot gets to fly

My, oh my, you sure know how to inflame things
You set it up so well, so carefully
Ain’t it funny how your drive-bys never help things?
You’re still the same old jerk you used to be

We don’t buy your bile and lies
And as for lives that you vandalise …
You sure know how to traumatise
It ain’t okay to slight a boy that dies
To choose to twist the knife, not empathise
J.D.: you’re how civilisation dies


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