Man, I really thought I had something, but it turns out the dates don't match at all. I'll share it with you anyway.
I knew she was saying "If I lose ya" but it also sounded like "Fallujah," the site of a bloody campaign in 2004 in the US-Iraq War (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Fallujah), and so also "if I lose ya in the street" it sounded like it could be "a Fallujan street." The combat in Fallujah was in an urban area, so if you were there fighting, it would be in the streets.
Then, toward the end, she starts saying "Contact!" which is what you might shout if you spot an enemy soldier (see this use: articles.latimes.com/2004/jul/18/world/fg-killing18). She also seems to be getting upset and possibly inconsolable toward the end of the song.
So it sort of sounded to me like the song could be about the speaker losing someone she cares about in the Fallujan streets--buuuut it's not.
It could still be about someone dying to enemy gunfire somewhere, but, alas, the Fallujah angle is gone.
Man, I really thought I had something, but it turns out the dates don't match at all. I'll share it with you anyway.
I knew she was saying "If I lose ya" but it also sounded like "Fallujah," the site of a bloody campaign in 2004 in the US-Iraq War (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Fallujah), and so also "if I lose ya in the street" it sounded like it could be "a Fallujan street." The combat in Fallujah was in an urban area, so if you were there fighting, it would be in the streets.
Then, toward the end, she starts saying "Contact!" which is what you might shout if you spot an enemy soldier (see this use: articles.latimes.com/2004/jul/18/world/fg-killing18). She also seems to be getting upset and possibly inconsolable toward the end of the song.
So it sort of sounded to me like the song could be about the speaker losing someone she cares about in the Fallujan streets--buuuut it's not.
It could still be about someone dying to enemy gunfire somewhere, but, alas, the Fallujah angle is gone.