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| Fire When Ready – A Funeral With Wedding Vows Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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My first impression was that it was about being in love during a revolution or civil war. "Hell knows that I'll appeal/How you lost your smile" makes it sound like the circumstances effected their relationship. The lines "And the earth shook with the sound/Of clicking boots at killing pace" and "A right to use force is a party/(in its own right)" make me think of military force. The part in the song about a dead wedding party in the sand brought to mind all news stories from the Middle East about bombs going off during weddings. I don't know if I'm close at all but this is a beautiful, anguished song. |
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| Manic Street Preachers – If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I pretty much agree with most of what everyone's been saying. I just want to add to what gongozolo was saying about many of the foreign volunteers being pacifists. I think that's probably true and that the might be partly about having a moral dilemma about whether to fight or not when you don't believe in fighter yet you do believe in the cause and you know that if people don't take a stand then the horrors of what's going on could effect your own country and family someday (which is essentially what did happen once WWII started). This thought struck me because after the verses which are filled with uncertainty comes the chorus "And if you tolerate this/Then your children will be next." Anyways, this is a great and terribly sad song. |
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