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| The Vanity Project – Wilted Rose Lyrics
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In 1984 the popularity of Trudeau was going downside and opinion polls showed the Liberals (the political party of Trudeau) were headed for defeat if Trudeau remained in office. On February 29 Trudeau announced he would not be a Prime Minister candidate for next election. He said he took this decision after a “long walk in the snow”. So, “Like Pierre Trudeau's walk out in the snow” is a figured way to say “is it time to throw in the towel and stop this fight for a social democracy”? The social democracy is represented by a red rose, in our case the “a wilted rose”, which is a representation of the social democracy dying. |
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| The Vanity Project – Wilted Rose Lyrics
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@[gravity_defiant:1908] No, this is not about P.E. Trudeau, Steven Page is just using this as an example. In 1984 the popularity of Trudeau was going downside and opinion polls showed the Liberals (the political party of Trudeau) were headed for defeat if Trudeau remained in office. On February 29 Trudeau announced he would not be a Prime Minister candidate for next election. He said he took this decision after a “long walk in the snow”. So, “Like Pierre Trudeau's walk out in the snow” is a figured way to ask “is it time to throw in the towel and stop this fight for a social democracy”? The social democracy is represented by a red rose, in our case the “a wilted rose”, which is the representation of the social democracy dying. |
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| The Vanity Project – Wilted Rose Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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@[CharlatanSin:1906] The red rose is a symbolism used to represent social democracy (or socialism). Normally, the rose his held in a hand. A wilted rose would represent the end of the social democracy. I think this is the meaning of “the day my country died”. |
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