| Phil Ochs – One Way Ticket Home Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This song--it seems to me--could be taken in two ways: 1) It could be taken as a plea from a young soldier in Vietnam, who just wants to return t a place where the biggest fight is Coke or Pepsi. Or 2) It could also be his desire to return to the simpler times of American history. In the fifties, "Elvis Presley [was] the king", television was new and fantastic, etrc. And then, in the sixties, everything started to fall apart. The generations split, the President of the United States was being villified, fear and discord were everywhere, and maybe he just wants everything that changed so suddenly to go back to the way it was back then. Anyway, fantastic song, love the timpani at the beginning. |
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| Anti-Flag – Right To Choose Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| The fact that this song got so many positive comments is a tribute to the fact that--southern rock aside--Heavy metal and punk fans are, by and large, the most tolerant people in the music domain. We, as a whole, don't care much whether the person who works next to us or makes the music we listen to is gay, or Satanic, or likes to mess around with sheep, so long as they are being true to themselves. So, I give credit to all who are fans of Anti-Flag, or Judas Priest, or Placebo, etc., and who just want everyone to be free to be themselves. Thank you for listening, and I promise I'll climb off of my soapbox now. | |
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