| Jack Savoretti – Soldier's Eyes Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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@Grand Marxist Master Your commentary is absolutely wrong. You extrapolate from datas tou don't have. "Soldier" = means "every soldier on planet earth" Now what is "a soldier" in thhis song : "a human alien" Which means "not an human anymore" That brings us back to the beginning of the song : where" does he entering ? Not on a battlefielf. Beacause he has already seen it (he says he has seen graveyards, etc). Which only means, one and only thing : indeed, very deep, dark. He enters his own home. ..And yet, he does not see it. Because, precisely, he has the soldier's eyes, nox and became an "human alien", an alien to what "home" means. There is no home once you've seen trouhg the devil's eyes. I Don't undersatnd how you can believe this is a "pro-military" song. It is the exact opposite: The charactrer depicted says he is like the "human alien" that faces him. There is no good side for the soldiers. While wars are preferable in some cases (think of the fight against Hitler), there is no return ever possible from that place for human beeings. You've become something else, and that simple data, horrible, means the destruction of your mind, of your personality, of your joy, of what defines you as a human. I just don't know what to say. Every soldier would understand this meaning. But the fact that this singer takes time to write a song about it means that he wants pepole to understand this tragic situation, especially people who see wars as "automatic defensive mechanism". There are soldiers on every field (or behind screens, which doesn't change the meaning, by the way).There are people who never really can't comme home after what they've done,n after what they've seen. |
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| Jack Savoretti – Soldier's Eyes Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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@Grand Marxist Master Your commentary is absolutely wrong. You extrapolate from datas tou don't have. "Soldier" = means "every soldier on planet earth" Now what is "a soldier" in thhis song : "a human alien" Which means "not an human anymore" That brings us back to the beginning of the song : where" does he entering ? Not on a battlefielf. Beacause he has already seen it (he says he has seen graveyards, etc). Which only means, one and only thing : indeed, very deep, dark. He enters his own home. ..And yet, he does not see it. Because, precisely, he has the soldier's eyes, nox and became an "human alien", an alien to what "home" means. There is no home once you've seen trouhg the devil's eyes. I Don't undersatnd how you can believe this is a "pro-military" song. It is the exact opposite: The charactrer depicted says he is like the "human alien" that faces him. There is no good side for the soldiers. While wars are preferable in some cases (think of the fight against Hitler), there is no return ever possible from that place for human beeings. You've become something else, and that simple data, horrible, means the destruction of your mind, of your personality, of your joy, of what defines you as a human. I just don't know what to say. Every soldier would understand this meaning. But the fact that this singer takes time to write a song about it means that he wants pepole to understand this tragic situation, especially people who see wars as "automatic defensive mechanism". There are soldiers on every field (or behind screens, which doesn't change the meaning, by the way).There are people who never really can't comme home after what they've done,n after what they've seen. |
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