Very intriguing that the song could be a crypto comment about the insanely horrific Mai Lai massacre of 16 March 1968 where the US army raped and slaughtered 500 villagers made up almost entirely of defenceless women and children. One of the tiny villages was indeed called "Song My".
Part of the song's appeal is that it has the tone of a cry from the heart. However, if the song really does refer to the Mai Lai massacre, it is no where near hard or desolate enough.
Generally I like allusive lyrics, but in this case, this historic fact is so abhorent and so ghastly that it deserves a more direct reference and more consistency in the text. Maybe I'm being too blunt, but for a start, how about calling it, "Look What They've Done to Mai Lai".
@Ser The song is actually about how South Vietnamese civilians betrayed the troops of Charley Company by giving up their positions to the Viet Cong. It took the US army 4 more years to realize Vietnam was a lost cause and the best course of action was to let Vietnam destroy itself. "Look what they done to my song" refers to America's surprise the Vietnamese trampled their plan to free it from itself.
@Ser The song is actually about how South Vietnamese civilians betrayed the troops of Charley Company by giving up their positions to the Viet Cong. It took the US army 4 more years to realize Vietnam was a lost cause and the best course of action was to let Vietnam destroy itself. "Look what they done to my song" refers to America's surprise the Vietnamese trampled their plan to free it from itself.
Very intriguing that the song could be a crypto comment about the insanely horrific Mai Lai massacre of 16 March 1968 where the US army raped and slaughtered 500 villagers made up almost entirely of defenceless women and children. One of the tiny villages was indeed called "Song My".
Part of the song's appeal is that it has the tone of a cry from the heart. However, if the song really does refer to the Mai Lai massacre, it is no where near hard or desolate enough.
Generally I like allusive lyrics, but in this case, this historic fact is so abhorent and so ghastly that it deserves a more direct reference and more consistency in the text. Maybe I'm being too blunt, but for a start, how about calling it, "Look What They've Done to Mai Lai".
@Ser The song is actually about how South Vietnamese civilians betrayed the troops of Charley Company by giving up their positions to the Viet Cong. It took the US army 4 more years to realize Vietnam was a lost cause and the best course of action was to let Vietnam destroy itself. "Look what they done to my song" refers to America's surprise the Vietnamese trampled their plan to free it from itself.
@Ser The song is actually about how South Vietnamese civilians betrayed the troops of Charley Company by giving up their positions to the Viet Cong. It took the US army 4 more years to realize Vietnam was a lost cause and the best course of action was to let Vietnam destroy itself. "Look what they done to my song" refers to America's surprise the Vietnamese trampled their plan to free it from itself.