Hence why war gets glorified

Not only those who needs to leave their own homes. But all humans who have been through something like this. WE ALL should try to treat each others with the same respect as we want ourselves. But It may be hard.

@@pangling2217 but a hunger for power blinds them of what’s truly important, still couldn’t agree more though

@@pangling2217 you don't understand war, it hits different, perhaps you don't trully know what war is? _You've been born in this world, your in a happy family, you love each other, you play with your father, you both have a great time, and then you stare at the lowering sun, time passes quickly, you have a job, your living a peaceful life, you and your father always talk together, thinking of all the memories, and then war starts, you and your father will get drafted to war, when the news have reached your family, your parents shed in tears, and when you learn about it, you stop what you were doing, your mind leaves your body, and your just thinking "is this really happening? My peaceful life, my family, all at risk of ceasing to exist." Before you and and your father leave home, you two stare at your mother, your mother that you have never seen be this sad, and then leave, knowing theres a chance you can never feel the comfort of a peaceful life ever again, knowing this could be the end, as you travel, you tear up, about the memories you've had, you've been emotional remembering them, but it hits harder knowing that maybe you won't have more, your father cheers you up, making jokes and talking about the funny memories, it lightens your mood, time passes, you've been sent to the battle fields for the first time after training, you look at your father hoping you both survive, time passes once more and you now know what war is, it isn't a source of glory, glory only comes to those who faught bravely for their home and family, as the general makes the call, the battle has begun, machine guns and artillery have started doing their purpose, hundreds, maybe even thousands, have fallen, you look at their bodies and think, "they had memories too..." you charge fiercely for your comrades deaths and for your home and loved ones, you see your father get shot, you run to him, you fall beside him, you remember everything you did with your father, he looks at you and says "I'm glad you were my son" and his eyes close, you don't hear him breathing anymore, you shed tears, you stand up and fight, but like everyone else, your story ends, you fall down, your entire life flashes within your eyes, and you fall asleep, never to wake again, the battle wasn't a major one, hence why barely anyone remembers, you have been forgotten, everything that happend to you, gone._

My story takes place in the 80-90th century, where if you die, theres a high chance of you not being remembered, not even in records, just gone.

That's because England didn't join in. This was a continental war only.

@@nancyjanzen5676 ahhh so thats why when they sing it in swedish it feels more... Got it.

I like that a lot of the English and Swedish versions are different like that, it makes them both worth experiences.

@@danielnystrom7310 Personally I wouldn't say the swedish version hits more, just differently. Personally I like the english version a little better. The swedish version is from the view of a single person and while that does make it more relatable it kinda sells short just how pointless and crazy this while war was. The english version is less "relatable" but it does a better job at portraying just how insane this really was. A lifetime of war doesn't really come across in a song about one person going to war and then maybe returning or maybe not. It makes you feel for that one person but the english version portrays the feeling of "a lifetime of war" better when it's about all the people who died and fought and just how many of these people there were, "has man gone insane" really hits me so much more when they say "Three decades of war". I'm 30 now, and there really is no question that I can ask except "Has man gone insane" when I think about how if I had been born on day 1 of that war, the war would have ended only now. 30 years is just such an incredibly long time, and I don't think the swedish version really portrays that quite as well as the english version.

This

As a fellow Dane, this, absolutely. It's such raw emotion

Håller med dig till 100%. Känslan i rösten gör en patriot av även den som inte alls tror att den är! Innehåll och betydelse får rakt in i hjärtat!

I'm definitely using that analogy in the future

You were! In spirit! As we were there for the ones suffering when it happened, as we are now living on for what they prevailed. /a swede

I loveThis song oh and also i am a swede to

@@carolusrex7627 Lange liv Sverge 🇸🇪

@@oliversherman2414 ja

Kalles Kaviar FTW. ;)

@@Straneusyuck, glöm det 😂😂😂 fiskägg, blä. Men IKEA 👍👍

Keep up the good work! We got your back :)

Hakka pälle

Yes Lejonet från Norden in Swedish is one of the best. Beacuse I am from Sweden I tend like the ons in Swedish better beacuse they sound more deep but realy I Think the lyrics are not same in the English version. The deep mening not entirely same.

Although the point of view is less personal

The Swedish version is from the first person. The English version is about the overall

It's not a translation though. The lyrics are entirely different.

on top of that, as someone else mentioned: a man could have a child, be sent to war, and then die in it then years later, this child would grow up during the same war, be conscripted, and then die as well a literal lifetime of war for the latter

If the war is fought on your land the soldiers tend to get younger. WW II the youngest (6) and the oldest (86) soldiers were both Russian. The war dropped in on the 6 year old when the Germans annihilated his village and only he escaped into the woods. For 30 years the war raged over Europe from Spain to Sweden and the rich and powerful have a vision of it but the soldier just fights and survives or dies.

Really you need to study that war more closely. Religion was used by the powerful elites to recruit. The alliance of Catholic France with the Protestant German princes kind of puts that to question. And the Catholic Spain fighting Catholic France who fought with the northern Protestant Germans because they hated the Hapsburgs on principle. Greed and power had more to do with it than religion.

@@nancyjanzen5676 If you want to hold a lecture about the war, with all the nuances, in a KZfaq comment - go ahead. I'll stick to the abridged version. I know things are much more complicated than that, things always are.

“Religion went out the window with the first battle” Eyyyyy I see whatcha did there. Quite a literal statement.

Heya, Dave, if you see this, Have a wonderful new year