This is by far the best Feelies song, in my humble opinion, and it's shocking no one has commented, although i guess realistically no one really listens to the Feelies.
Anyway, I like to think this is about his lefty girlfriend who has always dreamt idealistic dreams of life in the USSR and thinks it's time to move there, with or without him. And so he's thinking back, reflecting on what it would be like if he could visit almost as in a dream, and if it would be at all like she said... my favorite lines:
And I think about what it might be like
If I could go alone, if I could go at night
Would it be just like you know you said it would
Would it start the life aglow
Definitely seems pretty straightforward so I agree with you karmageddon. This album was released in 1980 and I remember how Russians were depicted as the bad guys in a lot of 80's American movies (Rocky IV, Red Dawn, etc.). So it seems this girl who "never felt right in our world" needs to go to the other side to find her bliss alone.
Definitely seems pretty straightforward so I agree with you karmageddon. This album was released in 1980 and I remember how Russians were depicted as the bad guys in a lot of 80's American movies (Rocky IV, Red Dawn, etc.). So it seems this girl who "never felt right in our world" needs to go to the other side to find her bliss alone.
This is by far the best Feelies song, in my humble opinion, and it's shocking no one has commented, although i guess realistically no one really listens to the Feelies. Anyway, I like to think this is about his lefty girlfriend who has always dreamt idealistic dreams of life in the USSR and thinks it's time to move there, with or without him. And so he's thinking back, reflecting on what it would be like if he could visit almost as in a dream, and if it would be at all like she said... my favorite lines: And I think about what it might be like If I could go alone, if I could go at night Would it be just like you know you said it would Would it start the life aglow
Definitely seems pretty straightforward so I agree with you karmageddon. This album was released in 1980 and I remember how Russians were depicted as the bad guys in a lot of 80's American movies (Rocky IV, Red Dawn, etc.). So it seems this girl who "never felt right in our world" needs to go to the other side to find her bliss alone.
Definitely seems pretty straightforward so I agree with you karmageddon. This album was released in 1980 and I remember how Russians were depicted as the bad guys in a lot of 80's American movies (Rocky IV, Red Dawn, etc.). So it seems this girl who "never felt right in our world" needs to go to the other side to find her bliss alone.