I think this song is about terrorism.
My old teacher (who was a huge U2-fan) told me that poppies often relates to death. I think that the sentence "Only poppies laugh under the crescent moon" means "Only the dead laugh uder the crescent moon".
The crescent moon is the symbol of Islam.
"As boys we would go hunting in the woods
To sleep the night shooting out the stars
Now the wolves are every passing stranger
Every face we cannot know" means, in my opinion, that before, we could just live out our lives, and go where we wanted, but now, everyone may be our enemies. "Now the wolves are every passing stranger".
I think this song is about terrorism. My old teacher (who was a huge U2-fan) told me that poppies often relates to death. I think that the sentence "Only poppies laugh under the crescent moon" means "Only the dead laugh uder the crescent moon". The crescent moon is the symbol of Islam. "As boys we would go hunting in the woods To sleep the night shooting out the stars Now the wolves are every passing stranger Every face we cannot know" means, in my opinion, that before, we could just live out our lives, and go where we wanted, but now, everyone may be our enemies. "Now the wolves are every passing stranger".
But that's just my opinion.