| Gordon Lightfoot – Sundown Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| It's definitely about addiction. As I sing the song with my guitar I can't help feeling that Sundown is a metaphor for the experimentation of the 60's era, the hope and that whole scene coming to an end. By 1974 people weren't wanting to revisit the things they did in the 60's or let them come "creeping 'round my back stairs." As an American culture do we have the resolve, the moral strength, to do that again- with our addictions, with our denial, etc? In the second year of this recession I see signs of a willingness from the media. On ABC news in the evening there are stories suggesting an underlying national humility (albeit the nightly Cialis ads)... and yet a sold out, crack-heading attitude on the American Music Awards... | |
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