The Soldier

Echoes of War: PJ Harvey and John Parish Unveil the Haunting Soldier's Dream
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Lyrics

I imagine a dream

I envision a dream

In which I'm a soldier

Where I take on the role of a soldier

And I'm walking

As I walk

On the faces

Over the faces

Of dead women

Of deceased women

And everyone I've

And everyone I've left in my past

Left behind me


It's the year when

This refers to a specific year when troops entered

The troops entered

The thirty-ninth parallel

The thirty-ninth

Thirty-ninth parallel

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Send me home restless

Expressing a desire to be sent home with a sense of unease

Send me home damaged

Wanting to return home with emotional and physical scars

And wanting

And a sense of desire


It's the year when

Refers to the same specific year

Some poet said

A quote from a poet emphasizing the necessity of living or facing consequences

"We must live, or accept the

Consequences"

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I want you to share

Expressing a desire for someone to understand and share the burden of guilt

Every pinprick of guilt

Every small feeling of guilt

That I have felt

Felt in the past

That I have felt


Send me home restless

Reiterating the desire to be sent home with restlessness

Send me home damaged

Desiring to return home with damage

Send me home disposes

Expressing a sense of being discarded or disposed

Send me home damaged

Wanting to return home despite the damage

And wanting

And a continued sense of desire

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