Remember that one time Metallica made a song that spoke directly to the horror of war and made ya feel feelings about death that are normally inaccessible to the neurotypical mind? Remember One? Some of the lyrics were subpar poetry, the obligatory heaviest part was cringey, but if you were in the right / wrong moment in time, it could move you?
Anyway, good thing they never did that again, or I might learn to cry when people die. Can’t have that.
Seriously tho, a family member on my husband’s side is unconscious in the hospital with slim odds. I never really knew him, but randomly thought of this song and felt some kind of way. The guy is a former skateboarder / guitar mans, of the generation that would be into this. Maybe that’s why it hit me. Alcoholism is bad shit, my people.
And as to the actual subject of the song, I’d like to rearrange Hegseth’s brains to spell out the words. All war fans fucking eat shit and die please. Leave the rest of us in peace.
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Living is bad shit, far too often, for too many people.
real.
My late relative, who recently passed, lost their forelimbs and sight to a Korean booby-trap in the early ’50’s.
And despite my kin’s exceptional character dealing in life with the aftermath, I think I’m the only one in the family apart from my dad, who never saw his “sacrifice” as “honorable”. Just utterly needless and stupid. Military service made my cousin fodder or he would have made someone else the same or dead.
“Honor”. My father, conscripted in WWII, notwithstanding his conscientious objector status, loathed it.
Anyway, listening to the lyric, caused me to immediately flash to my relative’s dismemberment, my hostility to war, and so on…
Thanks Bébé for sharing.
thanks for sharing, richard. the sick guy i mentioned in the article is no longer with us. alcohol notched another one.
Bit late, but a couple other songs worth listening to;
And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda
Christmas in the Trenches
thanks for the recs, amigo