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| Jethro Tull – Living In The Past Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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@[stephen171:29520] I think we have a similar take on the song. However, if you look at the first and second verse, there is an apparent disconnect. One minute the song is about an apparent love, and then about war. However, I don't think it's a disconnect- I think the love is for acres wild- a love of nature. It you look at the body of IA's work, there are very few love songs- though several on sensual desire. Remember, IA has a significant history with agricultural pursuits, and Living In the Past would probably be a reference to a farming lifestyle. |
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| Jethro Tull – Living In The Past Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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You have to remember the time this song was written, was back in during the Viet Nam war. Some of the references are linked to the war protests. I think when IA said "but they don't know what their fighting" there is a reference to the power of the establishment that dictate these types of wars and the futility of smashing up against those power structures. His Heavy Horses has a similar theme, or Jack in The Green- putting aside technology and the madness of the modern social order in favor of a more natural and less polluted/conflicted world. |
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