I don't think this song is too hard to figure out, but the grammer syntax, like a lot of Dave's songs, is somewhat hard to follow.
It's basically saying that religion is to blame for all wars, that all the children lost to war cannot be justified by faith, that in the end mankind will wipe himself out if we allow the war between east and west to rage on on. There are illusions to pain and suffering ("Sister chained...bound, beaten and bleeding") and to our disconnection from that pain and our media being the father figure, rationalizing and sensationalizing all of it, all the while we are forgetting that what's really happening is the beginning of the end of all mankind.
I don't think this song is too hard to figure out, but the grammer syntax, like a lot of Dave's songs, is somewhat hard to follow.
It's basically saying that religion is to blame for all wars, that all the children lost to war cannot be justified by faith, that in the end mankind will wipe himself out if we allow the war between east and west to rage on on. There are illusions to pain and suffering ("Sister chained...bound, beaten and bleeding") and to our disconnection from that pain and our media being the father figure, rationalizing and sensationalizing all of it, all the while we are forgetting that what's really happening is the beginning of the end of all mankind.