This song just makes me cry, pretty much every time I hear it. When I saw BNL in concert, Steven Page introduced this song by saying that the whole verse with the viaduct actually happened in Toronto, and concluded with something along the lines of "We as human beings need to take better care of each other."
I also think this is a social commentary: How come we as a society have spent billions of dollars (unsuccessfully) fighting the war on drugs, but so little attention has been given to the human side of that--the pain that drives people to drugs? And what about people who are in pain but not on drugs--how is it that the best we can do for them (OK, I'll admit it, [i]us[/i]) is to put up a net that doesn't even stop anyone?
This song just makes me cry, pretty much every time I hear it. When I saw BNL in concert, Steven Page introduced this song by saying that the whole verse with the viaduct actually happened in Toronto, and concluded with something along the lines of "We as human beings need to take better care of each other."
I also think this is a social commentary: How come we as a society have spent billions of dollars (unsuccessfully) fighting the war on drugs, but so little attention has been given to the human side of that--the pain that drives people to drugs? And what about people who are in pain but not on drugs--how is it that the best we can do for them (OK, I'll admit it, [i]us[/i]) is to put up a net that doesn't even stop anyone?