The booklet that comes with the CD actually makes it very clear what this song is about. Here's what it says:
"A tune about the anonymity of war. It kind of seems like a game sometimes, like Risk, or Battleship, where you kind of observe from a great distance (the internet?) as young men are actually killing each other for whatever reason someone came up with. We're expected to hope that our young men will kill enough of their young men to the point where we can declare a victory. That's kind of embarrassing."
The booklet that comes with the CD actually makes it very clear what this song is about. Here's what it says:
"A tune about the anonymity of war. It kind of seems like a game sometimes, like Risk, or Battleship, where you kind of observe from a great distance (the internet?) as young men are actually killing each other for whatever reason someone came up with. We're expected to hope that our young men will kill enough of their young men to the point where we can declare a victory. That's kind of embarrassing."