The phrase "six feet under, you really did carry my weight" connects this song to "Memorial," which is about the Vietnam Memorial. I think this is from the perspective of a dead soldier being laid in the ground. He is telling the priest above him that he has got it all wrong. The war is not serving God's justice. If his sacrifice is to have any meaning at all, it will be to force leaders to admit the injustice of war.
The phrase "six feet under, you really did carry my weight" connects this song to "Memorial," which is about the Vietnam Memorial. I think this is from the perspective of a dead soldier being laid in the ground. He is telling the priest above him that he has got it all wrong. The war is not serving God's justice. If his sacrifice is to have any meaning at all, it will be to force leaders to admit the injustice of war.