All your friends are your fellow soldiers.
As a soldier, you're told which side you have to fight on. You're forced to obey orders. You have no choice.
The ride into the sunset part is referring to the mass of people dying as they come over the trenches and get torn down by the enemy. It's doubled down on by the "into the fire" line. They're all getting slaughtered.
The 10 below, call come on the radio verse is the general giving orders. You're freezing in your trench. Over you go to face the enemy. Red the rivers flow is obviously pools of blood.
Poppies grow is a direct reference to "In Flanders Fields" - a poem about the red poppies that grew on the fields following the battles. It's the symbol for soldiers who have fallen in combat.
It's very clearly about World War I.
All your friends are your fellow soldiers. As a soldier, you're told which side you have to fight on. You're forced to obey orders. You have no choice.
The ride into the sunset part is referring to the mass of people dying as they come over the trenches and get torn down by the enemy. It's doubled down on by the "into the fire" line. They're all getting slaughtered.
The 10 below, call come on the radio verse is the general giving orders. You're freezing in your trench. Over you go to face the enemy. Red the rivers flow is obviously pools of blood.
Poppies grow is a direct reference to "In Flanders Fields" - a poem about the red poppies that grew on the fields following the battles. It's the symbol for soldiers who have fallen in combat.