Right, so.... that Cat's in the cradle song has a totally different meaning if you grew up in Northern Ireland in the 90's. Here the only context most people would know it in is as the soundtrack to a public information film/ advert encouraging the general public to use the informer hotline. You might think the lyrics are about a father not getting enough time with his son, but what it's really about is the son's dad joining the Ra (other alphabet gunmen are available), doing jail time, and for the son to join up himself when he grows up- hence the lyrics "you know I'm going be like you". Twenty years go by and the son is all grown up and a volunteer for the organisation, when he is machine gunned to death in a stairwell, where his murder is witnessed by his own son- the cycle of trauma is now passed onto the next generation. If only some dirty tout hadn't grassed everyone up to the filth, then none of this violence would ever have happened.
Now I know it's hard to watch with the appalling picture quality but this was actually pretty well made and was a big deal back then. If I remember correctly the singer licensed the song for free as he wanted to advance peace, when Van Morrison did a similar thing a few years later he of course charged a full fee. They only showed the more graphic adverts after the watershed. Despite the fact that Ireland is mostly a service economy, a decent portion of their GDP is got from making ultra violent road safety adverts that would make Sam Peckinpah blush. I like to think of the above advert as an early pioneer of the artform, and apoligise if this post has shattered any childhood memories of this song.