I love this song. I think it's about a shell-shocked soldier, who has seen so much and given up his past 'cut all regrets' in the battlefield, that he just can't imagine returning to a normal life, he can't 'think of england'. Even in the quietness of Berlin, now war is over, he can't stop 'running from the fire' as the images of war or 'poisoned stories' just repeat themselves in his mind.
I love this song. I think it's about a shell-shocked soldier, who has seen so much and given up his past 'cut all regrets' in the battlefield, that he just can't imagine returning to a normal life, he can't 'think of england'. Even in the quietness of Berlin, now war is over, he can't stop 'running from the fire' as the images of war or 'poisoned stories' just repeat themselves in his mind.
It's a beautiful song though, it's quite despairing but the melody to it also makes it sound really peaceful in the verses.
It's a beautiful song though, it's quite despairing but the melody to it also makes it sound really peaceful in the verses.
Also, I think the line you mention 'to try and find the joy of a lifetime' is actually 'a triumph and the joy of a lifetime'. This would make sense because, at least in my interpretation of the song, the soldier definitely wouldn't understand how war could be the 'joy of a lifetime' and would remember having to deliver that message.
Hi! I found out that: it's 'I bought the peace', not beast And 'the boys in stories' rather than poisoned stories.
I love this song. I think it's about a shell-shocked soldier, who has seen so much and given up his past 'cut all regrets' in the battlefield, that he just can't imagine returning to a normal life, he can't 'think of england'. Even in the quietness of Berlin, now war is over, he can't stop 'running from the fire' as the images of war or 'poisoned stories' just repeat themselves in his mind.
I love this song. I think it's about a shell-shocked soldier, who has seen so much and given up his past 'cut all regrets' in the battlefield, that he just can't imagine returning to a normal life, he can't 'think of england'. Even in the quietness of Berlin, now war is over, he can't stop 'running from the fire' as the images of war or 'poisoned stories' just repeat themselves in his mind.
It's a beautiful song though, it's quite despairing but the melody to it also makes it sound really peaceful in the verses.
It's a beautiful song though, it's quite despairing but the melody to it also makes it sound really peaceful in the verses.
Also, I think the line you mention 'to try and find the joy of a lifetime' is actually 'a triumph and the joy of a lifetime'. This would make sense because, at least in my interpretation of the song, the soldier definitely wouldn't understand how war could be the 'joy of a lifetime' and would remember having to deliver that message.