Lyric discussion by liquideet 

I think It is talking about Pearl Harbor. In War a Pilot's nickname is a 'horse'. It mentions 'wired were the eyes of a horse on a jet pilot'. The japanese army had the japanese so brainwashed they wanted to die for their country and when the japanese bombed Pearl Harbor there were alot of kamikazies (or however the fuck you spell it) that were very happy to die for their country. The U.S. didn't expect this attack at all and when they saw it all they saw were ALOT of planes flying together and they even got warning at one time that the japanese were coming. I think that explains the part when he mentions we didn't 'survey the skies' and the 'skies were grey'. But thats just my opinion.

I was thinking pearl harbor, too.

@liquideet You do realise that there were a) no jets in 1941, and no kamikaze until october of 1944..

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