this song and battle of hampton roads are prolly my favs of the new album!
I think, like the rest of the album, it's a parallel between the civil war and modern day problems in America, more specifically New Jersey. So an allegory of the civil war. The problems in modern times with a friend or girlfriend/boyfriend is similar, in the singer's view, to the problems between the union and the confederacy.
"We could build a nice life together if we don't kill each other first.
Are you just too fucked up to understand me or is it the other way around?
Maybe it's both, and I just don't know which is worse."
These lines can be interpreted as a member of the union army saying it to the confederacy (vice versa) in terms of actually killing each other, or a domestic dispute in modern times in terms of killing their relationship if they can't fix their problems.
this song and battle of hampton roads are prolly my favs of the new album!
I think, like the rest of the album, it's a parallel between the civil war and modern day problems in America, more specifically New Jersey. So an allegory of the civil war. The problems in modern times with a friend or girlfriend/boyfriend is similar, in the singer's view, to the problems between the union and the confederacy.
"We could build a nice life together if we don't kill each other first. Are you just too fucked up to understand me or is it the other way around? Maybe it's both, and I just don't know which is worse."
These lines can be interpreted as a member of the union army saying it to the confederacy (vice versa) in terms of actually killing each other, or a domestic dispute in modern times in terms of killing their relationship if they can't fix their problems.