Summary Of The Song The General

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I’m going to write about a song. The song is called “The General” by Dispatch. The song is based around a decorated general with a “heart of gold” who is well-respected. He has a dream the night before a battle about his infantry and cannot understand the meaning. He wakes to tell his men what he had seen in the dream. All his men stood tall and had “courage in their blood” and “fire in their stare” and they were all confused to as why the general had brought them out. Then the general told them to go home. He told them that he had seen the others in his dream and discovered that the battle, they are about to fight is not worth fighting. He also said he saw their mothers and he “wills” no there to follow him into battle. After the he told

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