One of my favorite Dar Williams songs. It is a song about enemys and how sometimes they like to think the other is evil, when really they are just equal opposite forces. The song shows how they waste time/resources/... in the process of trying to outdo the other.
It shows both that conclusion that the other is wrong:
"Can't they see that your reign is steely and torturous?"
and that the other group isn't actually savage, just competition:
"We'll both live in a world of civilized people
Though I've heard that my brand new church
Has a slightly higher steeple"
It just reminds me of so many situations I see where people demonize the other side, instead of working together to accomplish the ultimate goal, which they do not realize is the same for both sides.
One of my favorite Dar Williams songs. It is a song about enemys and how sometimes they like to think the other is evil, when really they are just equal opposite forces. The song shows how they waste time/resources/... in the process of trying to outdo the other.
It shows both that conclusion that the other is wrong: "Can't they see that your reign is steely and torturous?"
and that the other group isn't actually savage, just competition: "We'll both live in a world of civilized people Though I've heard that my brand new church Has a slightly higher steeple"
It just reminds me of so many situations I see where people demonize the other side, instead of working together to accomplish the ultimate goal, which they do not realize is the same for both sides.