Man, this song hits home for me, at least in some ways. My brother was laid off three times in one year, so he started selling coke. That doesn't make it right, but he was paying his bills and taking care of his family, he wasn't hurting anybody. He got busted for trafficing, now he still makes a good living, but he has to bust his ass very hard for it, is paying a $60,000 fine to the state, and is in the middle of a divorce (from the wife who was happier than a pig in shit when the coke money was rolling in). Then my mom, who's the most truly kindhearted Christians I've ever known, who's never said a bad word about anybody in my entire life, just found out she might have cancer, while just up the road at the prison, there are rapists, murders, and pedophiles who are healthy as a horse, and crooked politicians are all over television telling us how they're going to change things, meanwhile they're eating caviar and driving a Mercedes.
This song (especially in relation to things I see around me) makes you wonder what the hell is the point of "doing good" and "living right"...you're told that it all works itself out in the end, and what goes around comes around, but when you very seldom see it coming around, you begin to wonder if it isn't all just a crock of shit.
Anyways, these feelings aren't anything you've all experienced at one time or another, but I just thought I'd comment what this song makes me think of. Great song, though.
Man, this song hits home for me, at least in some ways. My brother was laid off three times in one year, so he started selling coke. That doesn't make it right, but he was paying his bills and taking care of his family, he wasn't hurting anybody. He got busted for trafficing, now he still makes a good living, but he has to bust his ass very hard for it, is paying a $60,000 fine to the state, and is in the middle of a divorce (from the wife who was happier than a pig in shit when the coke money was rolling in). Then my mom, who's the most truly kindhearted Christians I've ever known, who's never said a bad word about anybody in my entire life, just found out she might have cancer, while just up the road at the prison, there are rapists, murders, and pedophiles who are healthy as a horse, and crooked politicians are all over television telling us how they're going to change things, meanwhile they're eating caviar and driving a Mercedes.
This song (especially in relation to things I see around me) makes you wonder what the hell is the point of "doing good" and "living right"...you're told that it all works itself out in the end, and what goes around comes around, but when you very seldom see it coming around, you begin to wonder if it isn't all just a crock of shit.
Anyways, these feelings aren't anything you've all experienced at one time or another, but I just thought I'd comment what this song makes me think of. Great song, though.