I see this as sung by a growing up child who has figured out what has been happening to his world for the past few generations. "This war" being the struggle to survive as an individual under the constant sensory and mental bombardment our societies present. Each one of us makes choices throughout our lives that will in some way or another leave an effect that our children will experience. The lyrics seem to be more specifically about 'a' war but the organization or machine that is 'doing' the war is the same one that is 'doing' the corporate development of our society. I see the same destructive forces from the same sources of motivation acting within our own land and affecting us. If we consider 'us' as the people, from the land, one with our future generations, timeless, then the only thing that is truly important is the place for us to be. It is unfortunate that we have been so led astray from this basic principle of life that we, all of us, unwittingly damage our 'place to be' with our most basic of daily routine habits. At this point, 'killing' is a true aspect of the accumulation of our actions on our place, spurred on by the machine.
And the faces that will receive the land will never see ours to know just how duped we were.
'and when it's all over we're left with the mess'
I see this as sung by a growing up child who has figured out what has been happening to his world for the past few generations. "This war" being the struggle to survive as an individual under the constant sensory and mental bombardment our societies present. Each one of us makes choices throughout our lives that will in some way or another leave an effect that our children will experience. The lyrics seem to be more specifically about 'a' war but the organization or machine that is 'doing' the war is the same one that is 'doing' the corporate development of our society. I see the same destructive forces from the same sources of motivation acting within our own land and affecting us. If we consider 'us' as the people, from the land, one with our future generations, timeless, then the only thing that is truly important is the place for us to be. It is unfortunate that we have been so led astray from this basic principle of life that we, all of us, unwittingly damage our 'place to be' with our most basic of daily routine habits. At this point, 'killing' is a true aspect of the accumulation of our actions on our place, spurred on by the machine.
And the faces that will receive the land will never see ours to know just how duped we were.
"You broke down when you believed a single word."