The Onion A.V. club called this "one of the best (and angriest) protest songs about the Iraq war yet written". This is a protest song in the same way that "Born in the U.S.A" is a protest song--rather than explicitly stating how horrible war is they take the example of a soldier who killed a man and is suffering from PTSD because of it. In my fiction writing class the big mantra was "show, don't tell" and that's what they do here.
The Onion A.V. club called this "one of the best (and angriest) protest songs about the Iraq war yet written". This is a protest song in the same way that "Born in the U.S.A" is a protest song--rather than explicitly stating how horrible war is they take the example of a soldier who killed a man and is suffering from PTSD because of it. In my fiction writing class the big mantra was "show, don't tell" and that's what they do here.