K LONG BEERS IS A HYPERBOLE FOR TIME. AND GRAY FACES, RUPTURED NIGHT WATCHMAN SYMBOLIZE DEPRESSED, HUMILATED FACES BROKEN DOWN IGNORANT FATHERS HIDING BEHIND THE DREAMS OF HEROES WHICH ARE THE PAST DREAMS AND THEIR FUTURE DREAM OF THE HEIRS. THE METAPHOR IN THE FIRST STANZA SHOWS THAT FATHERS AND PEOPLE HAVE NOTHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO EXCEPT THE ANTICIPATION, WANT OF THE SUCCES OF THE NEXT GENERATION.THE SPEAKER THEN SHIFTS THE TONE GOING INTO THE SECOND STANZA TO GUILT, STRUGGLE ANDS AGONY. PROUD FATHERS ASHAMED TO GO HOME IS AN OXYMORON BECAUSE A FATHER SHOULD NOT BE ASHAMED WITH A PROUD FEELING. AT THE SAME TIME THE SYMBOLISM IN THIS LINE SHOWS BEING PROUD OF THEIRS SONS BUT ASHAMED OF WHAT THEY HAVE NOT ACCOMPLISHED IN THEIR OWN LIFES. THEIR WOMEN CLUCK LIKE STARVED PULLETS IS A METAPHOR FOR AGONIZING WANT OF THE MENS ATTENTION (FATHER AND SON). PULLETS CLUCK WILDLY WHEN STARVED AND ABOUT TO BE SERVED. ANOTHER MEANING COULD BE A PROUD FATHER ARE ASHAMED TO GO HOME TO SEE AND FEEL THE SUCCESS OF THEIR SONS IN THIS GREAT GAME OF FOOTBALL THEY KNOW SO WELL. ASHAMED OF WHAT THEY HAVE NOT SUCCEED OR THEIR LIMITED LIFE THEY HAVE LEAD. WOMEN MEANING PEOPLE WANTING TO BE AROUND AND GET THEIR (SONS) WANTING TO BE LIKE THEM OR WANTING WANT THEY HAVE ACHIEVED AND THE THEIR FATHER DYING FOR THE THAT LOVE AGAIN.THE THIRD STANZA BEGINS WITH THEREFORE THIS IS PAUSE IS PURPOSEFULL BUT UNEXPLAINABLE. AFTER THIS PAUSE THE TONE SHIFTS FOR THE LAST TIME. TO A SENSE OF PRESSURE THE SONS ARE GETTING AND PUTTING ON THEMSELVES. THEY TRY SO HARD TO SUCCEED TO AND BREAK THE CYCLE OF THIS GLOOMY TOWN AND HELP FORFILL THEIR FATHERS DREAM THAT THEY WORK THEMSELVES TO DEATH. BUT THE IDEA OF WORKING THEMSELVES TO DEATH IS BEAUTIFUL FOR THE CHANCE TO GET OUT WITH THE PUSH OF THEIR AND IMAGE OF WHAT COULD HAPPEN....
