First off hearing the chorus on radio it felt like a breakup song about relationship gone bad "what about all the broken happy ever afters" - a fairytale princess & prince reference and wanting to let go. Similarly at first "may break these bones" sounded like a reference to broken heart or similar.
Obviously there was much more to the lyrics, and other commentators have listened the song longer than few seconds on radio.
"We came when you called" and "may break these bones" illustrates American soldiers volunteering to fly off to far away places for their president in illusion of being peace makers and liberators only to face angry locals going at them with no end. These weapons are pointing to the "stars" (= US states) and asking the question from the politicians and government of the states/stars "what about us"?
"We are problems that want to be solved, We are children that need to be loved" can also describe soldiers who more often than not come from difficult background. From poverty, minorities, uneducated young men who believed their (politicians) lies and promises, ready to sacrifice their life for what they thought was their country. But it wasnt.
Rich, white and educated rarely go to army and sacrifice their bones or life for the president who wants power and oil. When did you read rockenfeller, trump or koch boys get hit by a bomb in Iraq? Who sold them boy soldiers out? River too far.
First off hearing the chorus on radio it felt like a breakup song about relationship gone bad "what about all the broken happy ever afters" - a fairytale princess & prince reference and wanting to let go. Similarly at first "may break these bones" sounded like a reference to broken heart or similar.
Obviously there was much more to the lyrics, and other commentators have listened the song longer than few seconds on radio.
"We came when you called" and "may break these bones" illustrates American soldiers volunteering to fly off to far away places for their president in illusion of being peace makers and liberators only to face angry locals going at them with no end. These weapons are pointing to the "stars" (= US states) and asking the question from the politicians and government of the states/stars "what about us"?
"We are problems that want to be solved, We are children that need to be loved" can also describe soldiers who more often than not come from difficult background. From poverty, minorities, uneducated young men who believed their (politicians) lies and promises, ready to sacrifice their life for what they thought was their country. But it wasnt.
Rich, white and educated rarely go to army and sacrifice their bones or life for the president who wants power and oil. When did you read rockenfeller, trump or koch boys get hit by a bomb in Iraq? Who sold them boy soldiers out? River too far.