wow, sad, people post the lyrics and don't even bother trying to tell what it's about...then again, most of Cinder's lyrics are fairly blunt, heh.
okay, just in case someone reads this:
This song makes me think of Vietnam and the horry stories I've heard from it. It tells of a soldier as he's going out, telling his wife to remain strong while he's gone. The rest of the song is in a format of letters written back home. The first paints a picture of all things going as they should and how everyone still is acting, well, human. As it goes on, it tells how things went FUBAR (pull out a dictionary if you don't know) and almost his entire squad was destroyed, but all that happens is he's patched up and sent back.
"So tell me dear the
color of your eyes,
I cannot remember
the glimmer of your
hair, you were a guid-
ing light emblazoned
on my mind, but death
has led me far away
and I don't seem to care"
the whole thing has dragged on a long time, memmories fade and he becomes more immune (for lack of a better term) to the battle and death that surrounds him.
The next phrase is what made me think of the stories from vietnam. Soldiers became so used to following orders that, when ordered to slaughter innocent people, they didn't even question it. The leaders are staying in the background and telling the soldiers to decimate everyone in their path.
Even though he sees this as "insane" he can't help but to follow along and just doesn't have the will to fight it. In the end, either he is trapped by the enemy or he has gone to the extent that he is like a zombie under the orders of his superiors.
This song and War Room go great together in my opinion
wow, sad, people post the lyrics and don't even bother trying to tell what it's about...then again, most of Cinder's lyrics are fairly blunt, heh.
okay, just in case someone reads this: This song makes me think of Vietnam and the horry stories I've heard from it. It tells of a soldier as he's going out, telling his wife to remain strong while he's gone. The rest of the song is in a format of letters written back home. The first paints a picture of all things going as they should and how everyone still is acting, well, human. As it goes on, it tells how things went FUBAR (pull out a dictionary if you don't know) and almost his entire squad was destroyed, but all that happens is he's patched up and sent back.
"So tell me dear the color of your eyes, I cannot remember the glimmer of your hair, you were a guid- ing light emblazoned on my mind, but death has led me far away and I don't seem to care"
the whole thing has dragged on a long time, memmories fade and he becomes more immune (for lack of a better term) to the battle and death that surrounds him.
The next phrase is what made me think of the stories from vietnam. Soldiers became so used to following orders that, when ordered to slaughter innocent people, they didn't even question it. The leaders are staying in the background and telling the soldiers to decimate everyone in their path. Even though he sees this as "insane" he can't help but to follow along and just doesn't have the will to fight it. In the end, either he is trapped by the enemy or he has gone to the extent that he is like a zombie under the orders of his superiors.
This song and War Room go great together in my opinion