| Barenaked Ladies – Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Totally agree with what your reading, except, it isn't only Islamic countries where such intolerance exists. I grew up in a gay neighborhood and I had quite a few friends and others that I knew who werre victims of 'gay bashing'. Ever since I was young I have read into the song's 'darkness' line as referencing to homophobia and/or intolerance. | |
| Barenaked Ladies – Lovers in a Dangerous Time Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I have always felt it was about gay love- or any love that is forbidden- by family or society. I left home quite young and lived, by accident, in a gay community. I was taken under the wing by some older, senior men, who were gay. They had more influence on my upbringing then my birth family ever had. A lot of young men, my age who were gay were quite devastated by being ostrasized or cut-off from their families I even had friends who were walking hand in hand (totally harmless behavior in my eyes) down the street and they were jumped by some people who yelled very slanderous things at them and severely assaulted them. Living and mostly growing up in a gay community (it isn't a contagious thing or anything but it sure changed my attitude in my formative young years). When Bruce Cockburn writes 'Sometimes you gotta kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight'- I always felt that the gay bashers were ignorant- and lots of hard hitting advocacy over the years by many brave men and women are slowly (still work to be done) bringing "daylight to the darkness' of ignorance. That is just my personal (yes biased) slant I have always had on this great song.L |
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