This song is about how intense war seems to take the populace at first. We forget that the people we're killing are humans, and those that go over and slaughter our opponents are at first hailed as heroes... Then, all those people that stood beside you suddenly see what you have done, and turn around, calling you a monster. Note when he's talking about the "hero" doing his job, the chorus is accompanied by people cheering. But when he gets to "it's only heroes who pay", the cheers are gone.
@Reaverbot Yes. War in general is a bad thing. A bad state for a human to be in. Up is down, morality and immorality mean nothing. To survive you must kill. So whenever people try to break down whether this thing could've been handled better or this other thing is a war crime, it's very difficult for me. I've never been in war. But you're overlooking a million first degree murders just to get there. And there are exceptions. Killing civilians for example. Torture. I can condemn them. But many things, I just don't know. Yeah they're bad. War is...
@Reaverbot Yes. War in general is a bad thing. A bad state for a human to be in. Up is down, morality and immorality mean nothing. To survive you must kill. So whenever people try to break down whether this thing could've been handled better or this other thing is a war crime, it's very difficult for me. I've never been in war. But you're overlooking a million first degree murders just to get there. And there are exceptions. Killing civilians for example. Torture. I can condemn them. But many things, I just don't know. Yeah they're bad. War is badness. But sometimes it needs to be done. Other times it's based on WMDs that never existed but nevermind that now. Lol
This song is about how intense war seems to take the populace at first. We forget that the people we're killing are humans, and those that go over and slaughter our opponents are at first hailed as heroes... Then, all those people that stood beside you suddenly see what you have done, and turn around, calling you a monster. Note when he's talking about the "hero" doing his job, the chorus is accompanied by people cheering. But when he gets to "it's only heroes who pay", the cheers are gone.
@Reaverbot Yes. War in general is a bad thing. A bad state for a human to be in. Up is down, morality and immorality mean nothing. To survive you must kill. So whenever people try to break down whether this thing could've been handled better or this other thing is a war crime, it's very difficult for me. I've never been in war. But you're overlooking a million first degree murders just to get there. And there are exceptions. Killing civilians for example. Torture. I can condemn them. But many things, I just don't know. Yeah they're bad. War is...
@Reaverbot Yes. War in general is a bad thing. A bad state for a human to be in. Up is down, morality and immorality mean nothing. To survive you must kill. So whenever people try to break down whether this thing could've been handled better or this other thing is a war crime, it's very difficult for me. I've never been in war. But you're overlooking a million first degree murders just to get there. And there are exceptions. Killing civilians for example. Torture. I can condemn them. But many things, I just don't know. Yeah they're bad. War is badness. But sometimes it needs to be done. Other times it's based on WMDs that never existed but nevermind that now. Lol