Like most of the songs on Jonathan Edwards, "Sunshine" was written shortly after Jonathan left the band. "I felt really fresh, really liberated", he recalls. "I just went out in the woods every day with my bottle of wine and guitar, sat by a lake near Boston and wrote down all those tunes, day after day".
"Sunshine" was an energetic, happy-sounding statement of protest and independence. "It was just at the time of the Vietnam War and Nixon", Jonathan recalls. "It was looking bad out there. That song meant a lot to a lot of people during that time--especially me". It started on a Boston radio station, and before long it hit the top five on the national charts. It earned him a gold record in 1971.
@jingy23 I always saw the four lines at "how much does it cost" to be a commentary on the government/military's cavalier treatment of taxpayer money and soldier effort. Instead of rationally analyzing whether a course of action is worth pursuing, they just blindly pursue it to see what happens, After all, it isn't THEIR money or THEIR effort they're wasting -- it's yours, they just get to play with it. It reinforces how irresponsibly the government who wants to run your life runs its own.
@jingy23 I always saw the four lines at "how much does it cost" to be a commentary on the government/military's cavalier treatment of taxpayer money and soldier effort. Instead of rationally analyzing whether a course of action is worth pursuing, they just blindly pursue it to see what happens, After all, it isn't THEIR money or THEIR effort they're wasting -- it's yours, they just get to play with it. It reinforces how irresponsibly the government who wants to run your life runs its own.
Like most of the songs on Jonathan Edwards, "Sunshine" was written shortly after Jonathan left the band. "I felt really fresh, really liberated", he recalls. "I just went out in the woods every day with my bottle of wine and guitar, sat by a lake near Boston and wrote down all those tunes, day after day".
"Sunshine" was an energetic, happy-sounding statement of protest and independence. "It was just at the time of the Vietnam War and Nixon", Jonathan recalls. "It was looking bad out there. That song meant a lot to a lot of people during that time--especially me". It started on a Boston radio station, and before long it hit the top five on the national charts. It earned him a gold record in 1971.
@jingy23 I always saw the four lines at "how much does it cost" to be a commentary on the government/military's cavalier treatment of taxpayer money and soldier effort. Instead of rationally analyzing whether a course of action is worth pursuing, they just blindly pursue it to see what happens, After all, it isn't THEIR money or THEIR effort they're wasting -- it's yours, they just get to play with it. It reinforces how irresponsibly the government who wants to run your life runs its own.
@jingy23 I always saw the four lines at "how much does it cost" to be a commentary on the government/military's cavalier treatment of taxpayer money and soldier effort. Instead of rationally analyzing whether a course of action is worth pursuing, they just blindly pursue it to see what happens, After all, it isn't THEIR money or THEIR effort they're wasting -- it's yours, they just get to play with it. It reinforces how irresponsibly the government who wants to run your life runs its own.
@jingy23 Sorry... I left this reply to the wrong comment, and I don't see any way to delete it.
@jingy23 Sorry... I left this reply to the wrong comment, and I don't see any way to delete it.