i agree with the poster above me, the song is about apathy, how 400 miles from their costline, they sleep safe at night while there is terror going on, and no one cares until retrospect, when the time has passed to do something, then everyone comes out of the woodwork wishing they had "known" the "scope" of the terror, otherwise they would have done something about it, sure they would have!!! its telling people to take a stand and not just let people get massacred, when they see the chance do something, do anything, hold a sign, donate money, do anything dont just goto bed and forget about it, it has nothing to do with the aussie governments involment so much as their reaction, they let it happen, and thats the entire point, dont turn your head, do something about injustice ...
i agree with the poster above me, the song is about apathy, how 400 miles from their costline, they sleep safe at night while there is terror going on, and no one cares until retrospect, when the time has passed to do something, then everyone comes out of the woodwork wishing they had "known" the "scope" of the terror, otherwise they would have done something about it, sure they would have!!! its telling people to take a stand and not just let people get massacred, when they see the chance do something, do anything, hold a sign, donate money, do anything dont just goto bed and forget about it, it has nothing to do with the aussie governments involment so much as their reaction, they let it happen, and thats the entire point, dont turn your head, do something about injustice ...