it's astounding how sensitive Ian (who'd never experienced any touch of war) was to create such pictures of war.
"Watched from the wings as the scenes were replaying
We saw ourselves now as we never had seen" - nobody can find better words to describe the realization of the atrocities. The whole song for me is more like a confessional, remorse and regret "These rituals showed up the door for our wanderings" - i'm pretty sure he talks about the effects on mental health caused by buntons, concentration camps and other realities of the war. i don't think he intended to point out any particular war, and i think that is proved by the song name itself. 'Decades', i suppose, is named so to emphasize a horrifying amount of time wars takes the human race.
it's astounding how sensitive Ian (who'd never experienced any touch of war) was to create such pictures of war. "Watched from the wings as the scenes were replaying We saw ourselves now as we never had seen" - nobody can find better words to describe the realization of the atrocities. The whole song for me is more like a confessional, remorse and regret "These rituals showed up the door for our wanderings" - i'm pretty sure he talks about the effects on mental health caused by buntons, concentration camps and other realities of the war. i don't think he intended to point out any particular war, and i think that is proved by the song name itself. 'Decades', i suppose, is named so to emphasize a horrifying amount of time wars takes the human race.