One of the things I thought immediately about this song is a kind of negative sentiment towards the American Dream -- not so much an anti-american sentiment per se, but specifically towards the broken promise that tends to come out of the American Dream -- it\'s like, it seems as if they have everything -- great technology -- this was right at the very beginning of the tech boom of the 1990s -- but yet, they can\'t even do what they intended to do -- write songs and play them for the world -- without going broke. I think the whole \"red-eyed and blue\" is a play-on-words with \"red, white and blue\"
One of the things I thought immediately about this song is a kind of negative sentiment towards the American Dream -- not so much an anti-american sentiment per se, but specifically towards the broken promise that tends to come out of the American Dream -- it\'s like, it seems as if they have everything -- great technology -- this was right at the very beginning of the tech boom of the 1990s -- but yet, they can\'t even do what they intended to do -- write songs and play them for the world -- without going broke. I think the whole \"red-eyed and blue\" is a play-on-words with \"red, white and blue\"