The Who - beads on one string

이 노래는 전쟁과 갈등 속에서 하나님을 언급하며 우리가 어떻게 서로를 이해하고 연결될 수 있는지를 언급한다
사람들은 모두 불완전하지만, 다른 점에 집중하기보다는 하나가 되어야 한다는 메시지를 전달하며, 평화를 이루는 것이 중요하다고 강조한다

Don't you ever say never
It don't mean a thing
Going to get us together
Like beads on one string
There is always someone to blame
You don't have to look far
Now the world is aflame
And God's in the stars
I don't care how you name Him
He is always the same
I just know that we shame Him
When we kill in His name
This can't go on forever
This war in a ring
Gotta bring us together
Like beads on one string
Don't you ever say never
(Don't you ever say never)
'Cause it don't mean a thing
(It don't mean a thing)
Going to get us together
(Gonna get us together)
Like beads on one string
(Like beads on one string)
Every one of us perfect
(Like beads on one string)
But we all have a flaw
(Like beads on one string)
Then we look for the defects and we go off to war
(Like beads on one string)
And we send all our children
(Like beads on one string)
Again and again
(Like beads on one string)
It's our fear that will fill them
(Like beads on one string)
But we're really the same