My song ‘The Fight’ is a really personal response to ‘Culture Wars’.
You can hear two versions of the song here:
In the song, someone has become a morally certain zealot, convinced they are right. They are furiously angry, obsessed with fighting . They are drifting blindly towards extremism and are no longer seeing the grounding realities of the world around them. They are losing their subtlety and complexity – they are no longer an ‘ever changing sky’:
Do you remember who you were
before you got so angry?
The world was full of wonders
before you joined an army
of bored and bitter men
sleepless on their screens
now those wonders drift unnoticed
like a swiftly passing dream.
The doors are locked,
the river is dry,
you were an ever changing sky,
before the fight
You live with the fight-
you don’t live with your children.
You live with the fight-
you don’t live with your wife.
Though you’re in the same house
you don’t see them as they pass
drifting unnoticed
like a Summer gone too fast.
The doors are locked,
the river is dry,
you were an ever changing sky
before the fight
Ed Boxall 