Some mood music
Jul. 15th, 2006 03:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eumeliaI'm listening to a very appropriate song by an alternative band called Smile Empty Song.
It's called "This is War".
This is War
I'm just a normal man
I wouldn't hurt nothing at all
But here we are
Our leaders have a plan
I'd only kill it's for them
Now here we are
Chorus
I drove in a car and flew in a plane
To come to your house and kick your door in
Now it's down to this, it's just you and me
I'll blow your fucking head of for my country.
I go to church and tithe
I go to work in a suit and tie
But this is war.
I'm really not sure why
But the tv says that you are wrong
Now here we are.
Chorus
My feet hurt from the sand
But still I march on gun in hand
'Cause this is war.
This isn't what I planned
I wanted to be so much more
But this is war
Chorus
I feel this song is a criticism of war. The mood of the song is very dire, making it sound like the speaker (the soldier) has no identity other than that prescribed by the atrocities of war and that everything in his life is less important than the demands his country place on him during war.
In the militaristic country I live in this is very true.
The lives of thousands of reserve soldiers have been put on hold.
The lives of their families have been put on hold.
This entire country is, as I have mentioned, in now in the shits because of this situation, which coulda', woulda', shoulda' been avoided.
But it's too late now and we have to fight.
The international media depicts Israel as a monster, because we are so much stronger than Lebanon when it comes to military means.
Israel tried to act as humanely as possible, if we really wanted to over-react we could have destroyed practically the entire country, instead we target specific location in order to cause as little collateral damage as possible.
This is at least the way I see it.
I find the whole situation abhorrent and find the deaths of Israeli soldiers and the aiming of missiles towards Israeli citizens equally awful and I may cry. I find the murder of Lebanese citizens so awful I may cry as well.
There is no way for Israel to come out "okay" in the eyes of the media, because no matter what our reaction would have been it would have been viewed as an over-reaction, simply because Israel's military power is greater than Lebanon's.
What I feel the media is missing is the way Hezbollah uses the Lebanese as their cannon fodder, as their storage stations, as their own personal guerrilla strong holds.
Guerrilla tactics are unpredictable and there is no way to fight it with out causing damage that I carnot even begin to contemplate.
I really want this to be over.
Please.
It's called "This is War".
This is War
I'm just a normal man
I wouldn't hurt nothing at all
But here we are
Our leaders have a plan
I'd only kill it's for them
Now here we are
Chorus
I drove in a car and flew in a plane
To come to your house and kick your door in
Now it's down to this, it's just you and me
I'll blow your fucking head of for my country.
I go to church and tithe
I go to work in a suit and tie
But this is war.
I'm really not sure why
But the tv says that you are wrong
Now here we are.
Chorus
My feet hurt from the sand
But still I march on gun in hand
'Cause this is war.
This isn't what I planned
I wanted to be so much more
But this is war
Chorus
I feel this song is a criticism of war. The mood of the song is very dire, making it sound like the speaker (the soldier) has no identity other than that prescribed by the atrocities of war and that everything in his life is less important than the demands his country place on him during war.
In the militaristic country I live in this is very true.
The lives of thousands of reserve soldiers have been put on hold.
The lives of their families have been put on hold.
This entire country is, as I have mentioned, in now in the shits because of this situation, which coulda', woulda', shoulda' been avoided.
But it's too late now and we have to fight.
The international media depicts Israel as a monster, because we are so much stronger than Lebanon when it comes to military means.
Israel tried to act as humanely as possible, if we really wanted to over-react we could have destroyed practically the entire country, instead we target specific location in order to cause as little collateral damage as possible.
This is at least the way I see it.
I find the whole situation abhorrent and find the deaths of Israeli soldiers and the aiming of missiles towards Israeli citizens equally awful and I may cry. I find the murder of Lebanese citizens so awful I may cry as well.
There is no way for Israel to come out "okay" in the eyes of the media, because no matter what our reaction would have been it would have been viewed as an over-reaction, simply because Israel's military power is greater than Lebanon's.
What I feel the media is missing is the way Hezbollah uses the Lebanese as their cannon fodder, as their storage stations, as their own personal guerrilla strong holds.
Guerrilla tactics are unpredictable and there is no way to fight it with out causing damage that I carnot even begin to contemplate.
I really want this to be over.
Please.
