I only play this song this time of year although I carry it in my heart all year. The first time I hear it in December, like this morning, I weep and really put my shoulders behind it. Unashamed.
I try to follow up with a song to balance out the deepdark pull of war with the quirky, funked up beat of NRBQ. They have a little different take on the season, but if you look at the lyrics to “Christmas Wish” you will sense another larger wish for the season echoed in John McCutcheon’s words, that our love ones “come home safe and come home soon and never have to go again.”
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Every time I read about, or listen to, that Christmas story it brings tears to my eyes. Why do the young men fight and die for old men’s greed and egos? Why do young men seem so eager to go to war in the first place? Once they get there they find that there’s little glory and lots of horror.
It’s not a new problem. Dates back thousands of years. Makes me look into the future with a great deal of fear for the youth now growing up.
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Having been thinking about that story a long time. http://tachesdesens.blogspot.fr/2012/03/nomans-land.html
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Such beautiful, sad, haunting truth.