This song really needs to be seen in context of its times. Reagan was building up nuclear weapons to stop the Soviets, but this was kept secret at the time. Many people in the time thought that we're going to wake up one morning and find that a nuclear war had occurred. He's asking why did we evolve so much just to destroy ourselves in a nuclear war.
This song really needs to be seen in context of its times. Reagan was building up nuclear weapons to stop the Soviets, but this was kept secret at the time. Many people in the time thought that we're going to wake up one morning and find that a nuclear war had occurred. He's asking why did we evolve so much just to destroy ourselves in a nuclear war.