Atlantis is the ultimate counterculture song.That famous line"And,as the elders of our time choose to remain blind,let us rejoice,and dance and sing and ring in the new,Hail Atlantis"
Our elders were conducting a terrible war in Vietnam.Students were battling cops on campuses.The Panthers were fighting for their survival.Nixon was waging a war against the New Left and the hippies.So the song Atlantis was a metaphor for the new world we were going to create.
Thats how I saw the song then and still see it today.
Atlantis is the ultimate counterculture song.That famous line"And,as the elders of our time choose to remain blind,let us rejoice,and dance and sing and ring in the new,Hail Atlantis" Our elders were conducting a terrible war in Vietnam.Students were battling cops on campuses.The Panthers were fighting for their survival.Nixon was waging a war against the New Left and the hippies.So the song Atlantis was a metaphor for the new world we were going to create. Thats how I saw the song then and still see it today.