| Heaven Shall Burn – The Fire Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This song is beyond all doubt about the horror of the trenches in WWI "where we heard the thunder we met the beast of mandkind" - A reference to shelling and the lack of humanity in war-"the beast of mankind" As 'TheSwarm' said above, "Thrown into the fire - to make a few meters of land." is a reference to trench warfare, thousands of men died trying to take mere meters of land, they had to run straight into machine gun fire, this the standard tactic used by all countries involved for taking trenches in WWI, there would have been some shelling first (if they were lucky, then they would have to charge, taking heavy losses if any machine gunners survived "we felt like heroes so high awaited glory and honor" Propaganda used to encourage young men to join the armed forces would have imprinted such feelings on the men-the war would be marvelous, an epic adventure, "became cheap canonfodder instead the few, who returned are broken forever" - they quickly learn the reality of WWI warfare, the physical and psychological horrors that are suffered "our cries gone with the wind but forever in my head" - He cannot ever forget the suffering of his comerads He also is wanting, or asking the young not to forget the sacrifice of his generation - "Will you remember?" |
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| Bruce Springsteen – My Father's House Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I was thinking that it might be about not just reaching out to your father but to everyone in your life that you care about because they won't allways be there and i agree with "myfriendbrenn" in the sense that i think it may also be about sin in general and have a wider meaning: "Shining 'cross this dark highway where our sins lie unatoned"-it's not just that sin but many un-atoned sins that are allways haunting him and he knows that he can no longer make them right |
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