What do you understand from the lyrics of these songs?

Late 60s Northern Ireland a time known as “the troubles” A very horrific and traumatic time for the people in Northern Ireland and no doubt affecting many Irish and those of us of Irish descent all over the world. Yes it is about pain physical and psychological.
And I had a friend who served there He truly had a dilemma as one parent was Irish one was English.

The song is about war and how pointless it is. It's about pain and was written about the pain if children dying after a bombing.

But it is important that songs mean something to you whatever that may be

I see what settler colonialism did to my people and our ancestral land on my mother's side.

Pain