I'm going to give some clues with this song since it might be hard to understand without knowing what was going through my head. This has a lot to do with Tolstoy's War and Peace. I started with the expression 'all's fair in love and war' which could have been an alternate title for his massive novel or book or whatever he calls it. War and Peace is about finding happiness. It takes place in Russia during the Napoleonic wars (early 1800's). One of the main messages of the book is that happiness will be found when you find inner peace or god in your daily life and also, more importantly, when you find love. So I took references to both War and Peace (and the disastrous French march on Moscow) and then flavoured the song with a love story of my own 'creation'. The main message of this song like War and Peace is that the march towards happiness is an endless march and happiness is often found in what we've left behind.
How long have you had me in this hold? A spoken word is silver; an unspoken word is gold. With the gold I never dared to speak, I hammered out a make-believe crown but it wasn't mind to keep. Cause words just ain't what we think. You promised me victory and I believed you till you blinked. In front of me you share your heart but you keep looking at the floor. I read your lips, they say you love me but your body says so much more. It's all fair in love and war. Happiness hides when you start to seek and hearts get broken in war and peace.How long can we do this for? Fighting over the same old line our parents fought before. Fighting our way to the heart of the country hoping that we'll find. But Moscow burned and happiness we'll learn is the life we left behind. It's all fair in love and war. I hope we've learned what we learned in this time apart and what we've learned isn't that we'll both have broken hearts.
I could love you however you choose.
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