Talk:I've Seen All Good People

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", but could also be seen as a piece comparing life itself to the game of chess. It is also considered an anti-war song. For example, the lyric "Don't surround yourself with yourself" is a reference to self-righteous entities, and the song discusses how news is captured by the queen to manipulate troops against enemies, a criticism of the Vietnam War of the time. ^{[citation needed]}" --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 04:38, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

The first chunk of that, chess strategy as a symbol for life strategy, is pretty blatantly obvious. The rest definitely needs citation. --75.161.84.72 (talk) 07:05, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

I've removed the Bishop interpretation, and just included a couple of chess-descriptive lyrics instead. "Move me on to any black square" may be a description of a Black Bishop's domain, but the deeper meanings go beyond that and would be speculative. Wdfarmer (talk) 07:21, 29 January 2008 (UTC)