Definitely seems to be about the Cuban revolution, and Leonad's disillusionment...(I'm not a history buff, here, so forgive me if I don't have the details of the Cuban revolution 100% accurate...).
"The Cadillacs go creeping now through the night and the poison gas" -- basically the "haves" driving in nice cars through the neighborhoods of the "have-nots" that are filled with poison gas, in ruins etc.
The disillusionment part is I think best expressed by "All these hunters who are shrieking now oh do they speak for us?" The revolutionary side of the war made a lot of claims about bettering the lives of the common man... whether or not they succeeded I suppose depends on your political philosophies... but Leonard seems to be questioning if the revolutionaries are truly advocates of the people, or if they are using public sentiment to gain political/military power.
The next stanza to the end(starting "And where do all these highways go...") seems to be in the aftermath of the war... kind of a where do we go now? Are we really better off? Both sides want to hear fairy tales of how things are going to get better now, but are they really?
Definitely seems to be about the Cuban revolution, and Leonad's disillusionment...(I'm not a history buff, here, so forgive me if I don't have the details of the Cuban revolution 100% accurate...). "The Cadillacs go creeping now through the night and the poison gas" -- basically the "haves" driving in nice cars through the neighborhoods of the "have-nots" that are filled with poison gas, in ruins etc. The disillusionment part is I think best expressed by "All these hunters who are shrieking now oh do they speak for us?" The revolutionary side of the war made a lot of claims about bettering the lives of the common man... whether or not they succeeded I suppose depends on your political philosophies... but Leonard seems to be questioning if the revolutionaries are truly advocates of the people, or if they are using public sentiment to gain political/military power. The next stanza to the end(starting "And where do all these highways go...") seems to be in the aftermath of the war... kind of a where do we go now? Are we really better off? Both sides want to hear fairy tales of how things are going to get better now, but are they really?