Blue Monday is someone's experience. An experience, that in part, symbolizes the lengths humans will go to when freedom is threatened by fascism. Blue Monday tells the tale of a soldier's experience that occured D-Day, Monday June 6, 1944. A soldier is ordered to scout out the beach that will soon be invaded by the occupants of the approaching sea vessel. "I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey" .He sees the dead soldiers, all from different backgrounds, and realizes how these men all just met their destiny. "Those who came before me lived through their vocations from the past until completion they'll turn away no more". The aforementioned soldier leaves to begin his mission amidst noise and gunfire, he believes he hears a lower ranked soldier ask something. This is when the fateful blunder occurs. The commanding soldier responds by telling the other soldier that he is is ordered to go alone and asks him to leave. The other soldier misunderstands and believes he is ordered to go with his commander. The confused soldier follows his commanding officer out to the beach and takes a bullet that would have/could have killed the storyteller (the commanding soldier). The dying soldier now views the storyteller as the most important person in the world. Think about it, you're dying, you reveal your name and say something like 'you can't die, my name is . . ., tell my wife/kids/mother that I love them'. The dying soldier probably asks the storyteller to hold him or look at his eyes. "Tell me how does it feel
when your heart grows cold". Talk to anyone who served in World War II as an Allied Power, they define the word "hero" as someone who was sure to face certain death in the name of freedom.
Yours is the only interpretation I've seen that makes sense to me, other than the Tuesday discrepancy which is minor. "I can and shall obey" can only refer to a military operation from a combatant's POV. +1 rating and a "thank you, well done" from me.
Yours is the only interpretation I've seen that makes sense to me, other than the Tuesday discrepancy which is minor. "I can and shall obey" can only refer to a military operation from a combatant's POV. +1 rating and a "thank you, well done" from me.
It's probably not important which war. If the band members have said that it was about Falklands War as somebody else posted here, then I'd take the band's word for it.
It's probably not important which war. If the band members have said that it was about Falklands War as somebody else posted here, then I'd take the band's word for it.
Blue Monday is someone's experience. An experience, that in part, symbolizes the lengths humans will go to when freedom is threatened by fascism. Blue Monday tells the tale of a soldier's experience that occured D-Day, Monday June 6, 1944. A soldier is ordered to scout out the beach that will soon be invaded by the occupants of the approaching sea vessel. "I see a ship in the harbor I can and shall obey" .He sees the dead soldiers, all from different backgrounds, and realizes how these men all just met their destiny. "Those who came before me lived through their vocations from the past until completion they'll turn away no more". The aforementioned soldier leaves to begin his mission amidst noise and gunfire, he believes he hears a lower ranked soldier ask something. This is when the fateful blunder occurs. The commanding soldier responds by telling the other soldier that he is is ordered to go alone and asks him to leave. The other soldier misunderstands and believes he is ordered to go with his commander. The confused soldier follows his commanding officer out to the beach and takes a bullet that would have/could have killed the storyteller (the commanding soldier). The dying soldier now views the storyteller as the most important person in the world. Think about it, you're dying, you reveal your name and say something like 'you can't die, my name is . . ., tell my wife/kids/mother that I love them'. The dying soldier probably asks the storyteller to hold him or look at his eyes. "Tell me how does it feel when your heart grows cold". Talk to anyone who served in World War II as an Allied Power, they define the word "hero" as someone who was sure to face certain death in the name of freedom.
June 6, 1944 was a Tuesday.
June 6, 1944 was a Tuesday.
Ha. Foolish.
Ha. Foolish.
Yours is the only interpretation I've seen that makes sense to me, other than the Tuesday discrepancy which is minor. "I can and shall obey" can only refer to a military operation from a combatant's POV. +1 rating and a "thank you, well done" from me.
Yours is the only interpretation I've seen that makes sense to me, other than the Tuesday discrepancy which is minor. "I can and shall obey" can only refer to a military operation from a combatant's POV. +1 rating and a "thank you, well done" from me.
It's probably not important which war. If the band members have said that it was about Falklands War as somebody else posted here, then I'd take the band's word for it.
It's probably not important which war. If the band members have said that it was about Falklands War as somebody else posted here, then I'd take the band's word for it.