I love Liam's songs and I also love his lyrics in spite of the fact that he has difficulties with words due to his poor educational background. However, what makes his lyrics so powerful is this simplicity and straightforwardity.
For me Soldier On is about the whole life, and Liam's highly pessimistic world view can be captured in the fact that he uses less than 50 words for describing it. Namely, the song tells us that life is basically nothing else but a pointless marching toward the very end, and in the meantime does not happen very much: we just sing songs alone or not, without knowing the ultimate truth, and in the end we are gone. That's it. And still we do it.
I love Liam's songs and I also love his lyrics in spite of the fact that he has difficulties with words due to his poor educational background. However, what makes his lyrics so powerful is this simplicity and straightforwardity. For me Soldier On is about the whole life, and Liam's highly pessimistic world view can be captured in the fact that he uses less than 50 words for describing it. Namely, the song tells us that life is basically nothing else but a pointless marching toward the very end, and in the meantime does not happen very much: we just sing songs alone or not, without knowing the ultimate truth, and in the end we are gone. That's it. And still we do it.