Charge

An old and angry man sitting a pub drinking hard. Young people are all around. He is invisible to them and he resents this. Don't they know who he is and the life he has experienced. He has stories to tell so they should sit with him and give him the time of day.

I think it's about old men and generation gaps, sounds heavy and sad.

I think it's about an ex military man; not only does the title bear reference to military maneuvers, but other terms such as "double time" (a part of drill, moving at twice the pace you would normally, as you can probably tell), and the otherwise violent language in the song, eg "I've broken jaws" (I realise that the next line may make it sound like a policeman but hold on a second) and especially the line "to keep you/free" suggests a man who went to war- I'm not sure which war as the line "I'm from another century" can be taken literally or figuratively so not sure there. Furthermore, "We never learn from history" is especially true when taken in the context of wars don't you think? Just my ideas but I agree in general with what everyone else has said

Old burnt out raver turned to drink and sitting in a pub somewhere in a northern city. He's one of the ones who kept on going while his friends settled down and now he's cast adrift between the generations. Not at home with his contemporaries but no longer able to fit in with their successors. So here he sits surrounded by the youngsters of the current crowd. Desperately wanting to join in with a veteran's authority and share his war stories of the glories of his youth. But he's upset and frustrated to find he is shunned and despised by the very people he sees as his tribe. "I" speaks at times more for the generation than for the individual. The little mystery on your tongue is a MDA/MDMA reference. Broken jaws protecting laws harks back to the poll tax and criminal justice act demonstrations in the 90's. My god, we thought we were going to live forever, we thought we were changing history.

That's what I get anyway.