Belle summarizes it as: "You know, although I’d listened to the Black Sabbath song ‘War Pigs’ many times before, I felt now as if only now I were hearing it for the first time."
I would go with "Why, oh why?, didn't we listen to the hippies?"
Or at least I would have gone with Dylan's "Masters of War."
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