This is one of the most intense anti-war songs ever written. It's beautiful in its simplicity. It's a story about one man at one moment in time as he dies in battle. 20 years old, dying in vain for a fight that doesn't involve him. The music is so vivid that you can picture a scared young man, barely out of childhood, huddled in the trenches with bombs going off around him. Surrounded by gunfire in the pouring rain, he hides in the mud trying in vain not to die. I don't know about you, but the picture this song puts in my head is almost cinematic. The lyrics are poetic, the song is tragedy, the song is beautiful, the point is made.
This is one of the most intense anti-war songs ever written. It's beautiful in its simplicity. It's a story about one man at one moment in time as he dies in battle. 20 years old, dying in vain for a fight that doesn't involve him. The music is so vivid that you can picture a scared young man, barely out of childhood, huddled in the trenches with bombs going off around him. Surrounded by gunfire in the pouring rain, he hides in the mud trying in vain not to die. I don't know about you, but the picture this song puts in my head is almost cinematic. The lyrics are poetic, the song is tragedy, the song is beautiful, the point is made.