| Edgar Winter – Free Ride Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I haven't read that many comments yet, but what surprises me is that my interpretation wasn't universal, since I thought it was so obvious. I was in ninth, maybe tenth grade when this song came out-; what prompted me to accept the meaning that I've taken starts with the second verse where what I thought that what Edgar called, "the game," at which, "nobody is winning," was gratuitously letting other people prod one into going on welfare right after just a few short months of unsuccessful job-hunting. I would encounter that problem myself, from people who didn't want to bother actually to help, but, themselves just to escape a discussion. I felt Edgar to be truly heroic to warn the rest of us against those burgeoning wrong-headed mis-guiders. I did not support welfare's abolition, just the false pushing of young people onto it before even looking at their workforce potential, which I blame for the abolition itself as well. Since I regard Mr. Winter as deeply admirable for this work alone, I was dismayed to see an advertiser portray him as a laughable, "booby-prize," in a fictional, radio-trivia contest. I pretend to see him as sneering at her for all her, "free," stuff, greedily stacked, perfect metaphor for his song, and, "her," declining meeting him out of SHAME. | |
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