I think the lyrics in this song are ingenious. The speaker seems to be a Boomer who sold out in the eighties and isn't really clear on what his generation was all about. I love the befuddled understatements referring to life-shattering events ("Martin X was mad," "Chinese people were fighting," etc). My favorite is the Kennedy line: "Someone put their finger in the president's ear..." I get the mental picture of Oswald playing a child's game with a thumb and index finger: "bang, you're dead."
I think the lyrics in this song are ingenious. The speaker seems to be a Boomer who sold out in the eighties and isn't really clear on what his generation was all about. I love the befuddled understatements referring to life-shattering events ("Martin X was mad," "Chinese people were fighting," etc). My favorite is the Kennedy line: "Someone put their finger in the president's ear..." I get the mental picture of Oswald playing a child's game with a thumb and index finger: "bang, you're dead."