| Counting Crows – Round Here Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Wow. I know that this was posted years ago and that your account is probably inactive, but I'm going to post a comment anyway. I'm so glad someone made an interpretation similar to mine. I'm not in the military but my father is a United States Marines. When I heard this song I immediately thought of bootcamp and the military. It also reminded me of my childhood, growing up as a military kid. You're interpretation is beautiful. It's almost exactly the same as mine except that for me this could also apply to military kids growing up on military bases. I often walk along the river in front of my house. The first line reminds me of that. When it's just me and moon and sometimes the rain. That's when I think about my life and try to figure things out. I see that crumbling difference between right and wrong. I just don't know anymore. The military contradicts everything. I don't believe in killing but I know that we have to.I don't want my friends to graduate and go to war. Here we often cry at night while our fathers our away. We come and go. All of the moving is very difficult and confusing. We have dreams like Maria and sometimes we get into trouble. We have sex because we're lonely and misunderstood and losing faith and we want to find love in someone else. We can't sleep and sometimes we get so tired of life. We can't see the war our fathers are fighting but it's still there. We see the helicopters flying over head and we hear the artillery and see the flares at night when the Marines are training. It radiates. We know that one day that will be us. We talk big like lions, about becoming like our dads, but then we go to war and sacrifice like lambs... some of us right out of high school. We want to make a name for ourselves.We want to be war heroes. Those boy, so many boys that are like brothers to me have grown up and left, they're always on my mind. | |
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