What is war? It's a battle, a campaign, a fight against something. But it's also a metaphor for death, struggle, and pain. So a war on war is, in this context, I think, a fight against struggle, pain, and all the unpleasantries in life. It's the Prozac culture, in which everyone has some sort of unalienable right to be happy.
But if you want to truly live, "you have to lose, you have to learn how to die if you wanna be alive." If you truly want to experience all the depth and complexity of life, you have to take your lumps, and lose your war on war. That doesn't mean you don't fight; you should always struggle to end your war, but when you lose, that's when you really live.
What is war? It's a battle, a campaign, a fight against something. But it's also a metaphor for death, struggle, and pain. So a war on war is, in this context, I think, a fight against struggle, pain, and all the unpleasantries in life. It's the Prozac culture, in which everyone has some sort of unalienable right to be happy.
But if you want to truly live, "you have to lose, you have to learn how to die if you wanna be alive." If you truly want to experience all the depth and complexity of life, you have to take your lumps, and lose your war on war. That doesn't mean you don't fight; you should always struggle to end your war, but when you lose, that's when you really live.
This is a really cool song; I love it.