It's about how America with its so-called "land of opportunity" with its guarantee of "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness" either does not exist or simply ceases to exist anymore. The American Dream is The American Nightmare-it's a lie and a myth! When my friend Steve Earle wrote Someday over 25 years ago in 86, Reagan was president-but he did absolutely nothing for the American working class! In Someday, Earle writes that the disenchanted, disaffected and disenfranchised Rebel "Go to school they learn reading and writing and they sign away their lives!" Soon after, they resort to the absolute hell of working at the Texaco station "On the Interstate pumping gasoline and counting out-of-state Plates!"-and they're enraged that "they don't even know if there's a town around Here!" The Rebels start to fight-"Someday I'm finally gonna let go/I know there's a better way/I wonder what's Over the Rainbow!/I'm gonna get out of here someday!" If Steve's writing is angry, the metal guitars of the Dukes are even angrier-creating a Brilliant Metal/Rock performance. Result-First Earle/Dukes piece to get airplay on Rock Stations. Think of Someday as the Metal/Rock equivalent of Broadway standard Somewhere Over the Rainbow-both songs have an existential sadness in their respective performances-and you'll know what I mean from the start. Brilliant Rocker, Stephen Duke!
It's about how America with its so-called "land of opportunity" with its guarantee of "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness" either does not exist or simply ceases to exist anymore. The American Dream is The American Nightmare-it's a lie and a myth! When my friend Steve Earle wrote Someday over 25 years ago in 86, Reagan was president-but he did absolutely nothing for the American working class! In Someday, Earle writes that the disenchanted, disaffected and disenfranchised Rebel "Go to school they learn reading and writing and they sign away their lives!" Soon after, they resort to the absolute hell of working at the Texaco station "On the Interstate pumping gasoline and counting out-of-state Plates!"-and they're enraged that "they don't even know if there's a town around Here!" The Rebels start to fight-"Someday I'm finally gonna let go/I know there's a better way/I wonder what's Over the Rainbow!/I'm gonna get out of here someday!" If Steve's writing is angry, the metal guitars of the Dukes are even angrier-creating a Brilliant Metal/Rock performance. Result-First Earle/Dukes piece to get airplay on Rock Stations. Think of Someday as the Metal/Rock equivalent of Broadway standard Somewhere Over the Rainbow-both songs have an existential sadness in their respective performances-and you'll know what I mean from the start. Brilliant Rocker, Stephen Duke!