| The Clash – Straight to Hell Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[Icheadle1990:29948] Yes you recognize the despair of the Amerasian kids feel when rejected by both sides of their families. Gentle writer, your interpretation lets them off with going to hell just for their actions. Three million children born out-of-wedlock between 1950-1970, in the USA were placed secretly in (closed) adoptions. DNA testing and social media has enabled many to find their first parents. Unfortunately rejection happens here too. One adoptee that contacted her father was literally told "we have no need of you". In the song ,"Go straight to hell" applies to a child who exists that isn't supposed to. It isn't what they did--it is what they are. I like to think the Clash was saying the same to the soldiers and their American ways. I hope your interpretation is right. |
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| Mary Chapin Carpenter – What Was It Like Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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This song evokes a memory of my birthmother who relinquished me for adoption when I was a baby. Seeing her again after so many years, I wanted to know what our time together had been like for her. What did she say? What did I hear? What did we do? It didn't quite seem real. I was indeed her mistake and adoption prevented her from making another mistake--trying to raise a child as a teenage parent. It also allowed her to pretend to others that her pregnancy and relinquishment never occurred. It didn't feel quite real to her either. Reunion was initially a joyful event for me. However the longer I stayed the more I saw how my birthmother's guilt was motivating her actions.. There was no love; only shame, hostility, and a guilty desire to make amends. That was all it ever was. I came to our reunion with a lot of hope, love and happiness in my heart. I felt she crushed my heart under her foot like it was an insect. She hid a lot of resentment and bitterness underneath her guilt. Perhaps she needed me to settle an old score. I wonder what it was like . . . |
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