taal 19 is correct. When you're overseas - especially in a place like, say, Iraq, where the landscape and culture is so different - you tend to miss the little things. Remember, when you're at war, you can't just do what want, when you want. You can't leave and you can't go about you're life as if you were a civilian at home. At times like those, you tend appreciate the little things that seem trivial. That's what Tom was talking about in the verse about Rockford.
As for the song, to me it sounds anti-war in a sense. All this talk about them (the military) filling soldiers with lies, not knowing how to feel about the blood shed, not fighting for freedom or justice, how the other side doesn't want to die anymore then anyone else and how their essential the same when you get down to it. The twist in this song being that it's supposed to be from the perspective of solider, instead of a civilian. What many people seem to forget is that more often than not, soldiers are anti-war. You think they really want to kill and be put in the position to be killed? It's not easy, not fun, and not something most soldiers want to experience. People join the military usually for many different reasons and most of the time it's not because they love war and want to kill people, or everyones favorites, to defend and serve their country/freedom/justice. It's a paycheck, a chance at college, an opportunity to fly planes you normally wouldn't be able to fly, and so on. Above all it's a job and soldiers, whether their enlisted or officers, are just following orders.
taal 19 is correct. When you're overseas - especially in a place like, say, Iraq, where the landscape and culture is so different - you tend to miss the little things. Remember, when you're at war, you can't just do what want, when you want. You can't leave and you can't go about you're life as if you were a civilian at home. At times like those, you tend appreciate the little things that seem trivial. That's what Tom was talking about in the verse about Rockford.
As for the song, to me it sounds anti-war in a sense. All this talk about them (the military) filling soldiers with lies, not knowing how to feel about the blood shed, not fighting for freedom or justice, how the other side doesn't want to die anymore then anyone else and how their essential the same when you get down to it. The twist in this song being that it's supposed to be from the perspective of solider, instead of a civilian. What many people seem to forget is that more often than not, soldiers are anti-war. You think they really want to kill and be put in the position to be killed? It's not easy, not fun, and not something most soldiers want to experience. People join the military usually for many different reasons and most of the time it's not because they love war and want to kill people, or everyones favorites, to defend and serve their country/freedom/justice. It's a paycheck, a chance at college, an opportunity to fly planes you normally wouldn't be able to fly, and so on. Above all it's a job and soldiers, whether their enlisted or officers, are just following orders.