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That Man I Shot

Certain Songs #361: Drive-by Truckers – “That Man I Shot”

November 4, 2015 by Jim Connelly

brighter-than-creations-dark Album: Brighter Than Creation’s Dark
Year: 2008

There’s a reason that we demonize the people we go to war against. It’s to make it easier to think of them as “enemy combatants” and “casualties” as opposed to “human beings we are trying to kill.”

But, of course, no matter the justification for the war, no matter the righteousness of the war, no matter how the evil the enemy, they’re still “human beings we are trying to kill.”

That’s what “That Man I Shot” is getting at.

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Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: Brighter Than Creations Dark, Drive-by Truckers, That Man I Shot

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