Am setting up this topic as a platform for people to explain why songs mean so much them, the complete songs that is. The story or message that they portray and how they relate to you.
My first offering is Soldier Side by System of a Down. The song is very powerful and tells the story of soldiers going to war. The destructive grief and emotions that reverberate throughout the families and friends of those that are sent to fight wars by people who have no direct involvement in them. It is widely thought that the war they sang about was the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, though it relates to any war in reality.
How a soldier believes he is fighting for the greater good of his country, but once immersed in the war himself he finds himself alone in his thoughts, even though he is surrounded by his comrades. Questioning his reasoning for war itself. His realisation that he is merely a pawn in a political strategy. How he witnesses the death of close friends and loved ones, whether they be friend or foe. The mothers that cry as they bid farewell to their children, not knowing if they will ever see them again. How a soldier, even if he survives and comes home alive, dies in the war he participated in.
Such a powerful song and I relate to it through a cousin of mine from Chepstow who is a soldier in Iraq. Thankfully still alive.
System of a Down-Soldier Side(music video)Dead man lying on the bottom of the grave
Wondering when Savior comes
Is he gonna be saved
Maybe you're a sinner into your alternate life
Maybe you're a joker maybe you deserve to die
They were crying when their sons left
God is wearing black
He's gone so far to find no hope
He's never coming back
They were crying when their sons left
All young men must go
He's come so far to find the truth
He's never going home
Young men standing on the top of their own graves
Wondering when Jesus comes
Are they gonna be saved
Cruelty to the winner, Bishop tells the King his lies
Maybe you're a mourner, maybe you deserve to die
They were crying when their sons left
God is wearing black
He's gone so far to find no hope
He's never coming back
They were crying when their sons left
All young men must go
He's come so far to find no truth
He's never going home
Welcome to the Soldier Side
Where there's no one here but me
People all grow up to die
There is no one here but me
Welcome to the Soldier Side
There is no one here but me
People on the soldier's side
There is no one here but me
