I cannot believe that even now there are people stupid enough to blame unarmed students for heavily armed soldiers murdering them. Some people don't deserve to live in a democracy if they are this clueless about why it is never the fault of the person without a gun in this situation. The soldiers could have left, they could have communicated better, they could have done a hundred other things, instead they killed defenceless people who couldn't shoot back.
As for the song, a couple of thoughts on specific lines:
"We're finally on our own" - there's no longer any pretence that everyone is on the same side, when the government is prepared to shoot its people then the people are on their own.
"This summer I hear the drumming" - to me, this line hints at the real message of the song, which is that its time to take back the country. Young hears the drumming of the people who won't take this stuff any more from the Nixon administration. Obviously the line reflects the military element of the national guard too. It took a few years, but he went down...
@caitsith01 Oh yeah, blame Nixon, not LBJ. Blame the president who started ending the war almost immediately after taking office, not the one who escalated it and left the mess for someone else to clean up.
@caitsith01 Oh yeah, blame Nixon, not LBJ. Blame the president who started ending the war almost immediately after taking office, not the one who escalated it and left the mess for someone else to clean up.
I cannot believe that even now there are people stupid enough to blame unarmed students for heavily armed soldiers murdering them. Some people don't deserve to live in a democracy if they are this clueless about why it is never the fault of the person without a gun in this situation. The soldiers could have left, they could have communicated better, they could have done a hundred other things, instead they killed defenceless people who couldn't shoot back.
As for the song, a couple of thoughts on specific lines:
"We're finally on our own" - there's no longer any pretence that everyone is on the same side, when the government is prepared to shoot its people then the people are on their own.
"This summer I hear the drumming" - to me, this line hints at the real message of the song, which is that its time to take back the country. Young hears the drumming of the people who won't take this stuff any more from the Nixon administration. Obviously the line reflects the military element of the national guard too. It took a few years, but he went down...
@caitsith01 Oh yeah, blame Nixon, not LBJ. Blame the president who started ending the war almost immediately after taking office, not the one who escalated it and left the mess for someone else to clean up.
@caitsith01 Oh yeah, blame Nixon, not LBJ. Blame the president who started ending the war almost immediately after taking office, not the one who escalated it and left the mess for someone else to clean up.