To me this song is about what's happening in the world now. 'Do you still remember back when days....' -
Do you still remeber when you were back at school? Your world was sheltered, you had nothing to worry about because the next day you would do the same as the last. 'There was the day when this world went to war and...' The world has waded unthinkingly into war, for example the 'War on Terror' and the fellow singing the song has gone along. What's the diference betwee wasting Nazis in 'Saving Private Ryan' and fighting insurgents in Afghanistan, no real difference between real life and the movies. Now after having experienced it the protagonist reaises the difference between fact and fiction, he is over it and has had a gut-full, and whished to be taken back to when he was not afraid, safe in his sheltered world. 'Running blind into the light...' Running blindly into the light of a better world through the war mentioned earlier, maybe we should have thought about it, but too late, he's fighting and it's wasting him away.
To me this song is about what's happening in the world now. 'Do you still remember back when days....' - Do you still remeber when you were back at school? Your world was sheltered, you had nothing to worry about because the next day you would do the same as the last. 'There was the day when this world went to war and...' The world has waded unthinkingly into war, for example the 'War on Terror' and the fellow singing the song has gone along. What's the diference betwee wasting Nazis in 'Saving Private Ryan' and fighting insurgents in Afghanistan, no real difference between real life and the movies. Now after having experienced it the protagonist reaises the difference between fact and fiction, he is over it and has had a gut-full, and whished to be taken back to when he was not afraid, safe in his sheltered world. 'Running blind into the light...' Running blindly into the light of a better world through the war mentioned earlier, maybe we should have thought about it, but too late, he's fighting and it's wasting him away.