This is a song about the global economic crisis. Flowers wrote the track after being prompted by comedian Jimmy Carr, who told the singer "the next big breakthrough record" was going to be "about the problems of the economy".
"Las Vegas was hit harder than any other place," Flowers said. "In my street there were eight or nine empty houses. There's an empty shopping mall near my house, this brand new complex, and nobody ever occupied it. It's a weird wasteland-looking thing. Dead palm trees. I guess that's where that song was born."
Where Springsteen or Dylan would rail at the injustices done to the working man, Flowers, in line with his religion, takes a more compassionate view, singing: "Don't be afraid to knock on the door if you fall on hard times."
This is a song about the global economic crisis. Flowers wrote the track after being prompted by comedian Jimmy Carr, who told the singer "the next big breakthrough record" was going to be "about the problems of the economy".
"Las Vegas was hit harder than any other place," Flowers said. "In my street there were eight or nine empty houses. There's an empty shopping mall near my house, this brand new complex, and nobody ever occupied it. It's a weird wasteland-looking thing. Dead palm trees. I guess that's where that song was born."
Where Springsteen or Dylan would rail at the injustices done to the working man, Flowers, in line with his religion, takes a more compassionate view, singing: "Don't be afraid to knock on the door if you fall on hard times."