| DJ Tiesto – In My Memory Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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After the breakup of my longest relationship - I heard this song. It, really, captured my feelings of my time with her - I can't help think of her, anytime I hear this tune. It's a very emotional song, for me! |
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| Garth Brooks – Ireland Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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This song is, completely, about an Irish immigrant fighting in the American Civil War. At that time it was common for Irish to arrive in the ports in the NE of the USA, especially Boston. During the Civil War, conscription was in effect on both sides. The Union forces would have met people coming off the boats with two forms. Signing the first made you a US citizen which allowed you to be able to sign the second, joining the army. At that time, joining the army wouldn't have been that bad of an option. The potato famine had just ended, and Irish people had been leaving in huge quantities with Britain basically starving them out of their own country (during the potato famine when millions of people starved to death, Britain was still ensuring that Ireland was a net exporter of food). So people would have arrived off the boat, with no idea of how they'd live - and they'd be given guaranteed pay/food/employment to be a soldier. Hard not to accept. We can see this in the lines: "In someone else's bloody war We know not why were fighting Or what we're dying for" This man is a soldier. He doesn't even know the politics of his own side. He's there because he has no better option. |
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| Garth Brooks – Ireland Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[NGwarfare:30210] - Britain did NOT promise independence for Ireland if people fought in World War 1. However, Irish people took advantage of the times to launch the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916, eventually leading to the independent Republic of Ireland being formed in 1918. | |
| Garth Brooks – Ireland Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[dwarfsetsfire:30209] - Possibly one of the most insane meanings you could take from this song. Michael Collins was not alive during the Troubles. Collins died in 1922, the Troubles started in the 1960s. The IRA did not fight wars in this way. The only time they took to the field as an army was when they took the GPO in Dublin. This song could not have described that fight. |
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