Robert Plant has recorded a cover of Elbow's "The Blanket Of Night" for The Long Road, an album to raise money for the British Red Cross in their attempts to provide support to refugees in the U.K.
"We have a worldwide international catastrophe," Plant said. "Talking about it is one thing, doing something about it is another. The position we are in, it's paramount we all do our best one way or another to help."
"The Blanket of Night" appeared on Elbow's 2014 record The Take Off and Landing of Everything. Its lyrics concern a refugee couple unsure of their future as they travel by boat.
"The ocean that bears us from our home / Could save us or take us for its own / The danger that life should lead us here / My angel, could I have steered us clear?"
The Long Road will be released on February 26.
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