It's the peace-punk song I've always wanted to write. It's the perfect mix of Discharge and Billy Bragg. It has to do with what war does to all of us: the war economy, our recession, the moral erosion of the idea of a just war. My bandmate Mark [Miller] has a good friend who came back from Iraq, but mentally he's hurting, fractured – and [the song is] for all of the people that we see around the world that are involved in the military, who come to our shows, that want out, that want a reason to hope for something else. It's for all our friends and the people I've worked with in the counter-recruiting movement, trying to get people to know their rights. ... Recognize that soldiers are human beings and have been manipulated into this terrible place, and a lot of horrible things have happened, but we can heal together. That's what the ending's about: Trying to get out of this place where we've all been compromised, and our civilization has been, by this addiction to war.
Quoting Thomas Barnett:
It's the peace-punk song I've always wanted to write. It's the perfect mix of Discharge and Billy Bragg. It has to do with what war does to all of us: the war economy, our recession, the moral erosion of the idea of a just war. My bandmate Mark [Miller] has a good friend who came back from Iraq, but mentally he's hurting, fractured – and [the song is] for all of the people that we see around the world that are involved in the military, who come to our shows, that want out, that want a reason to hope for something else. It's for all our friends and the people I've worked with in the counter-recruiting movement, trying to get people to know their rights. ... Recognize that soldiers are human beings and have been manipulated into this terrible place, and a lot of horrible things have happened, but we can heal together. That's what the ending's about: Trying to get out of this place where we've all been compromised, and our civilization has been, by this addiction to war.