This ten-minute-long song is a powerful protest against war and the devastation it brings to innocent lives and is based on the book "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway. While the novel focuses more on a love affair between an American expatriate and an English nurse, Catherine Barkley, the song focuses on the sacrifices of war that the story is set in, and questions if they are worth what's lost. The novel is set during and influenced by World War 1 from Ernest's perspective, serving in the Italian campaigns, though he was not involved in the battles described in the book.
The song speaks of the horrors of war and the innocent lives it claims, painting a description with the crimson rivers representing the bloodshed and suffering caused by war, and the woe to all the loss of an idealistic world. Soldiers die, the men and children have bled,
leaving a numbing silence that makes us ask what we have become. Who is the victor when no one remains? Generals and political leaders pay the price for victories with genocide, sending their own out to die. By the end of the song, all we can ask for is a farewell to arms. For the war effort to cease and end the perpetual gears of war, greased by the blood of innocence.
This ten-minute-long song is a powerful protest against war and the devastation it brings to innocent lives and is based on the book "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway. While the novel focuses more on a love affair between an American expatriate and an English nurse, Catherine Barkley, the song focuses on the sacrifices of war that the story is set in, and questions if they are worth what's lost. The novel is set during and influenced by World War 1 from Ernest's perspective, serving in the Italian campaigns, though he was not involved in the battles described in the book.
The song speaks of the horrors of war and the innocent lives it claims, painting a description with the crimson rivers representing the bloodshed and suffering caused by war, and the woe to all the loss of an idealistic world. Soldiers die, the men and children have bled, leaving a numbing silence that makes us ask what we have become. Who is the victor when no one remains? Generals and political leaders pay the price for victories with genocide, sending their own out to die. By the end of the song, all we can ask for is a farewell to arms. For the war effort to cease and end the perpetual gears of war, greased by the blood of innocence.