The message of this song is basically: violence cannot be stopped with more violence, it's completely illogical to believe otherwise. Even if one thinks a cause just, like "fighting for one's country," he points out that war is still the wrong way to solve this problem. He seems to continue with: soldiers should stop blindly following orders from commander's far away from the battlefields in cushy offices; army's should be dismantled. And, we should all ban together to find peaceful solutions to out problems.
The message of this song is basically: violence cannot be stopped with more violence, it's completely illogical to believe otherwise. Even if one thinks a cause just, like "fighting for one's country," he points out that war is still the wrong way to solve this problem. He seems to continue with: soldiers should stop blindly following orders from commander's far away from the battlefields in cushy offices; army's should be dismantled. And, we should all ban together to find peaceful solutions to out problems.
What a dirty hippy Donovan is.
This song is brilliant and true.