the cat empire has a couple of fundamental ideas they was to express, (thing 'manifesto'), and this song is talking about how they will, through their music, attempt to do this. the 'friends' are the people who already belive in these ideas, so he is telling us
'if the world contained more people like these
the news would not be telling me about all that warfare endlessly'
the cat empire has a couple of fundamental ideas they was to express, (thing 'manifesto'), and this song is talking about how they will, through their music, attempt to do this. the 'friends' are the people who already belive in these ideas, so he is telling us 'if the world contained more people like these the news would not be telling me about all that warfare endlessly'