Dirk Blaggard
Well-Known Member
I think it's a good song, it's not as beautiful as Late fight with Maude and Lyne but why re-do that song, when he had already done it?
I think people saw it as a dumb song with M attacking soldiers. Spiteful and mean.
It's not my kind of song as such but it has some lovely tender moments, Jesse again showing, he has more talent than people give him credit -
In my mind "I thought you were dead " is as good, if not better than most songs Boz and Alain ever did, the fact he then did River Clean, mean's M was right to have him on board
I think people having ago at M and misreading this song, shows more about their lack of depth and understanding of M, than anything else.
I took it as a human song, M seeing into the soul of someone who joined the army, was made into a killer then hit self-destruct and died.
The dead soldiers' attempt of finding meaning via battle is shown to be hollow and empty.
Pictures of their dead son in uniform (for instance), don't help the parents, it just highlights how young he was and what a waste it all is, This is made worse when they watch the news and see the same old wars rumble on. What was the point? There is no point.
