"The Gunner's Dream" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1983 album ''The Final Cut''. This song was one of several to be considered for the band's "best of" album '...
Listen to this from the perspective of a depressed war vet who no one relates to. All the promises they made that got them to sign up (poverty draft), the so called care after, the deception of the noble cause, the war crimes and atrocities comitted. All while trying to integrate back into gung-ho working life where you have to put on an act to smile to the oblivous world that put you in that place. To slog along back into the bar and drown their misery and PTSD.
Listen to this from the perspective of a depressed war vet who no one relates to. All the promises they made that got them to sign up (poverty draft), the so called care after, the deception of the noble cause, the war crimes and atrocities comitted. All while trying to integrate back into gung-ho working life where you have to put on an act to smile to the oblivous world that put you in that place. To slog along back into the bar and drown their misery and PTSD.