i think that the last lyric does not mean civil war, it would make no sense to make a song so applicable to many situations be about one event. i think it must be about the sense of understated compassion soldiers feel for one another. be it british v Taliban or axis v allies. they all accept that the only reason they are on the side their on is because of their birth, at the base level they fight them and make war with them but they are still fellow soldiers; brothers in arms. underlining the necessity of war for soldiers to exist and its paradoxical futility.
(lot of long words there, don't mean to sound like a dick. just cant help it ;) )
i think that the last lyric does not mean civil war, it would make no sense to make a song so applicable to many situations be about one event. i think it must be about the sense of understated compassion soldiers feel for one another. be it british v Taliban or axis v allies. they all accept that the only reason they are on the side their on is because of their birth, at the base level they fight them and make war with them but they are still fellow soldiers; brothers in arms. underlining the necessity of war for soldiers to exist and its paradoxical futility.
(lot of long words there, don't mean to sound like a dick. just cant help it ;) )