This is about Neil reading the newspaper "national midnight star", and getting pissed off about it's content.
i see red
it hurts my head
guess it must be something
that i read
it's the colour of your heartbeat (opinion or letters to the editor)
a rising summer sun (New day)
the battle lost -- or won (war news or stock market)
the flash to fashion (style or fashion page)
and the pulse to passion --
feels red
inside my head
and truth is often bitter -- (reading between the lines)
left unsaid
said red red
thinking about the overhead -- (business section)
the underfed
we've got mars on the horizon (astronomy)
says the national midnight star
(it's true)
what you believe is what you are
a pair of dancing shoes --
the soviets are the blues --
the reds (fear of the Russians)
under your bed
lying --
in the darkness
dead ahead
and the mercury is rising (weather)
barometer starts to fall
you know it gets to us all
the pain that is learning
and the rain that is burning -- (acid rain)
feel red
still -- go ahead
you see black and white -- (newspaper)
and i see red
(not blue) ?
The National Midnight Star was an entirely fictional 'tabloid' magazine - dreamed up for a skit by the comedy geniuses of a Canadian television show from the early 80's called: SCTV (Second City Television). In the sketch, the sort of 'slogan' for the magazine was that the National Midnight Star would only report something if "It's True!" :)
The National Midnight Star was an entirely fictional 'tabloid' magazine - dreamed up for a skit by the comedy geniuses of a Canadian television show from the early 80's called: SCTV (Second City Television). In the sketch, the sort of 'slogan' for the magazine was that the National Midnight Star would only report something if "It's True!" :)
So - imo, no, these lyrics are not about Neil getting 'ticked off' while reading a particular newspaper; nor do I think it is some sort of cometary on newspapers/magazines in general.
So - imo, no, these lyrics are not about Neil getting 'ticked off' while reading a particular newspaper; nor do I think it is some sort of cometary on newspapers/magazines in general.
What these lyrics are 'all about', imho, is...
What these lyrics are 'all about', imho, is simply social/political "anger" in a very general sense (which would, of course, include the inflammatory cometary of pundits and so forth); ie: "seeing red" (as it were).
Although I realize that Neil is a "left-leaning Libertarian" (at least, he's been quoted as being such), for me (you get your own damn 'eye of the beholder' out of it!) - in the past few years (as there was no such 'definitions' at the time he wrote this) - I have come to identify this song with American Red State / Blue State 'politics', and that it is specifically (vehemently) espousing a "pro Red State" point of view. Myself? I guess you 'could' label me a 'conservative-leaning' Libertarian - but I reject such 'labels', personally. ;)
This is about Neil reading the newspaper "national midnight star", and getting pissed off about it's content.
i see red it hurts my head guess it must be something that i read
it's the colour of your heartbeat (opinion or letters to the editor)
a rising summer sun (New day) the battle lost -- or won (war news or stock market) the flash to fashion (style or fashion page)
and the pulse to passion --
feels red inside my head and truth is often bitter -- (reading between the lines) left unsaid said red red thinking about the overhead -- (business section) the underfed
we've got mars on the horizon (astronomy) says the national midnight star (it's true) what you believe is what you are a pair of dancing shoes -- the soviets are the blues --
the reds (fear of the Russians) under your bed lying -- in the darkness dead ahead
and the mercury is rising (weather)
barometer starts to fall you know it gets to us all the pain that is learning and the rain that is burning -- (acid rain) feel red still -- go ahead you see black and white -- (newspaper) and i see red (not blue) ?
The National Midnight Star was an entirely fictional 'tabloid' magazine - dreamed up for a skit by the comedy geniuses of a Canadian television show from the early 80's called: SCTV (Second City Television). In the sketch, the sort of 'slogan' for the magazine was that the National Midnight Star would only report something if "It's True!" :)
The National Midnight Star was an entirely fictional 'tabloid' magazine - dreamed up for a skit by the comedy geniuses of a Canadian television show from the early 80's called: SCTV (Second City Television). In the sketch, the sort of 'slogan' for the magazine was that the National Midnight Star would only report something if "It's True!" :)
So - imo, no, these lyrics are not about Neil getting 'ticked off' while reading a particular newspaper; nor do I think it is some sort of cometary on newspapers/magazines in general.
So - imo, no, these lyrics are not about Neil getting 'ticked off' while reading a particular newspaper; nor do I think it is some sort of cometary on newspapers/magazines in general.
What these lyrics are 'all about', imho, is...
What these lyrics are 'all about', imho, is simply social/political "anger" in a very general sense (which would, of course, include the inflammatory cometary of pundits and so forth); ie: "seeing red" (as it were).
Although I realize that Neil is a "left-leaning Libertarian" (at least, he's been quoted as being such), for me (you get your own damn 'eye of the beholder' out of it!) - in the past few years (as there was no such 'definitions' at the time he wrote this) - I have come to identify this song with American Red State / Blue State 'politics', and that it is specifically (vehemently) espousing a "pro Red State" point of view. Myself? I guess you 'could' label me a 'conservative-leaning' Libertarian - but I reject such 'labels', personally. ;)