Barenaked Ladies: Helicopters Meaning

Helicopters Lyrics

This is where the helicopters came to take me away
This is where the children used to play

This is only half a mile away from the attack
This is where my life changed in a day
And then it changed back
Buried in the din of rotor noise and...

1. anonymous

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   Oct 20th 2020 !⃝

   It's about the Vietnam war in the 1960s. Let's use at least 100 characters.Your interpretation was too short. Let's use at least 100 characters. Write in complete sentences. Take your time and write something people want to read.
2. anonymous

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   Dec 14th 2019 !⃝

   This album came out before the Iraq war so it couldn't be about that. Likely the BNL went on a media tour of the Former Yugoslavia with the Canadian Forces. They are writing about how little the rest of the world cared about what was happening in the Balkans. Celebrities and media would fly in for a hot story and then leave without making any significant impact on the issues. They will live with the knowledge of what they saw and struggle with the fact the rest of the world didn't really care.
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   Aug 24th 2019 !⃝

   I think it’s about the Iraq War. I mainly say this is relation to the other song on this album called “Sell, Sell, Sell.” At first I thought it was about Vietnam as many suggested, but the lyrics “the world loves its irony” refers to how much people glorified the “War on Terror” thing.
   
   
   
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   Dec 1st 2009 !⃝

   About the aftermath of a war after the news media packs up and leaves.

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