Isn't it that the first narrator walks into a pub after a fight with his girl, hoping to drink himself into oblivion when this war veteran starts burning his ear off with his war stories, parts of which are recollected in the song. the man just wants the veteran to piss off, but the old mans words come back and haunt him on his way home. I don't have the booklet to "the rest of the best" but i think i heard that somewhere
Isn't it that the first narrator walks into a pub after a fight with his girl, hoping to drink himself into oblivion when this war veteran starts burning his ear off with his war stories, parts of which are recollected in the song. the man just wants the veteran to piss off, but the old mans words come back and haunt him on his way home. I don't have the booklet to "the rest of the best" but i think i heard that somewhere