This is one of my favorite songs from Edwin. This whole CD was pretty rocking, (Lost in America), which is unusual for Edwin, but I think it worked great, and this song is no exception! A lot of the the hard rock influence came from Pete Riley I'm sure.
This song is of course about Mark David Chapman and his desire to gun-down John Lennon in December of 1980. Lennon's nickname was "the Walrus", he wrote the song "Happiness is a Warm Gun" for the Beatles White album, "Give Peace a Chance" was an anti-war anthem written by Lennon in 1969, and he was shot outside of his apartment building, the "Dakota building". The rest of the lyrics mostly deal with Chapman's "bitter and twisted" mindset, because he shot Lennon for no good reason except that he was mentally deranged.
This is one of my favorite songs from Edwin. This whole CD was pretty rocking, (Lost in America), which is unusual for Edwin, but I think it worked great, and this song is no exception! A lot of the the hard rock influence came from Pete Riley I'm sure.
This song is of course about Mark David Chapman and his desire to gun-down John Lennon in December of 1980. Lennon's nickname was "the Walrus", he wrote the song "Happiness is a Warm Gun" for the Beatles White album, "Give Peace a Chance" was an anti-war anthem written by Lennon in 1969, and he was shot outside of his apartment building, the "Dakota building". The rest of the lyrics mostly deal with Chapman's "bitter and twisted" mindset, because he shot Lennon for no good reason except that he was mentally deranged.