I think this is an antiwar song. The "sad boys" are the returning survivors with their survivor\'s guilt. The green children are the foolish, naive ones who fetishize war and the military – and place you, the returning dead, in that narrative. \n\nYou fell prey to your own illusions about the war and about being a soldier. In the end, you\'re left with nothing but ghosts, phantasms...tricks of the light.
I think this is an antiwar song. The "sad boys" are the returning survivors with their survivor\'s guilt. The green children are the foolish, naive ones who fetishize war and the military – and place you, the returning dead, in that narrative. \n\nYou fell prey to your own illusions about the war and about being a soldier. In the end, you\'re left with nothing but ghosts, phantasms...tricks of the light.