O the beauty of well crafted lyrics. The absolute drug references remind me of what people say about John Prine. Everybody is sure an illegal smile is LSD, but when the question is posed to Mr Prine he always swears it is not. So i think an argument can be made for such personal revelations in a song, but when juxtaposed with current socioeconomic as well as geo political conditions, all kinds of metaphors come to life. Afghanistan , position as superpower, a society. The phrase "Oh having the space to know the way it is coming down" creates a nice visual for Mcluhan and his thoughts on visual and acoustic space and its impact on the global society.
Great song!
O the beauty of well crafted lyrics. The absolute drug references remind me of what people say about John Prine. Everybody is sure an illegal smile is LSD, but when the question is posed to Mr Prine he always swears it is not. So i think an argument can be made for such personal revelations in a song, but when juxtaposed with current socioeconomic as well as geo political conditions, all kinds of metaphors come to life. Afghanistan , position as superpower, a society. The phrase "Oh having the space to know the way it is coming down" creates a nice visual for Mcluhan and his thoughts on visual and acoustic space and its impact on the global society.