"1917" is the story of a French prostitute in the year of the song's title, sung from her perspective. She is paid to have sex with a soldier and she seems to fall in love with him briefly. It's probable that he'll die the next day and it's implied that he does, and the song ends with the idea that more soldiers will come in order to heal their pain from war.
"1917" is the story of a French prostitute in the year of the song's title, sung from her perspective. She is paid to have sex with a soldier and she seems to fall in love with him briefly. It's probable that he'll die the next day and it's implied that he does, and the song ends with the idea that more soldiers will come in order to heal their pain from war.