| Jonathan Edwards – Sunshine Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| From what I can tell, the "man" who has come is the government who is taxing his work and telling him what to do. He wants to know where all that money is going. He notes ironically that the government can't even manage its own affairs, yet it seems to think that it can spend his money better than he can. | |
| Rush – The Trees Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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It is not about racism. You have to remember that Rush was a very libertarian band - this song is about the legal struggle between employees and businesses. The Maples are workers, and the Oaks are companies. The "light" is money. The workers are envious of the wealth of of the people who run the companies. They form a union and get the government to pass a law to force the companies to give them higher wages - thus, effectively destroying their employers (by hatchet, axe, and saw - the only way to get more light is by cutting the Oaks down). That's basically the real interpretation. Rush's album 2112, for example, is a rock opera version of Ayn Rand's book "Anthem". Ayn Rand was a dyed-in-the-wool capitalist, and would have agreed wholeheartedly with the sentiment of this song. I do, too. |
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