"It's all about revenge now, we'll all be leverage, numbers never matter as long as they fall in your favour"
"Recreate the problem you started off to solve"
i think it's "groaning in their guts" not 'holding'
the 'quiet' bit:
"Later in the desert the people start to fall
The commands of the officer are equal to the law
And nowhere in their minds can they find a reason for
Palates full of foreign sand and eyes filled with scorn"
anyway. this song is amazing, really powerful - Nicholas Berg was an american hostage beheaded in Iraq a few years ago. i think the song's basically saying how futile the war is, how it's achieved nothing, the soldiers hate being there ('nowhere in their minds can they find a reason for' etc) and the people higher up the army chain of command never have to deal with the realities of war ('your palms are never rough'). the bit about 'revenge' could relate to the fact that Berg was supposedly killed in retaliation for the torture & humiliation of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
couple of corrections (i think) to these lyrics:
"It's all about revenge now, we'll all be leverage, numbers never matter as long as they fall in your favour"
"Recreate the problem you started off to solve"
i think it's "groaning in their guts" not 'holding'
the 'quiet' bit:
"Later in the desert the people start to fall The commands of the officer are equal to the law And nowhere in their minds can they find a reason for Palates full of foreign sand and eyes filled with scorn"
anyway. this song is amazing, really powerful - Nicholas Berg was an american hostage beheaded in Iraq a few years ago. i think the song's basically saying how futile the war is, how it's achieved nothing, the soldiers hate being there ('nowhere in their minds can they find a reason for' etc) and the people higher up the army chain of command never have to deal with the realities of war ('your palms are never rough'). the bit about 'revenge' could relate to the fact that Berg was supposedly killed in retaliation for the torture & humiliation of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.