I've always felt this song was highlighting the percieved 'evils' of urban redevelopment, the lines: 'Dug up my den, dug up my roots, Treated us like plasticine town' could be a comment on the urban redevelopments of 50's and 60s and the social cost of tearing up communities to build new flats and houses.
I've always felt this song was highlighting the percieved 'evils' of urban redevelopment, the lines: 'Dug up my den, dug up my roots, Treated us like plasticine town' could be a comment on the urban redevelopments of 50's and 60s and the social cost of tearing up communities to build new flats and houses.