I think both of the previous comments might be good, but not being able to ask John Kay, I can give my thoughts of when the song was on the charts, where I first heard it. The '60s, and what was happening in the US, I
and others took the song as to be about America and what was happening and being done in her name. The powers-that-be in the name of greed and power, and furthering their own agenda, which appears to be happening again, but in a more pseudo-sophisticated and they hope, a more hidden way. To us, who have been there previously, are not fooled. In any case, the song spoke to me as a declaration of sorrow for the country and her true sons and daughters who tried to save her.
I think both of the previous comments might be good, but not being able to ask John Kay, I can give my thoughts of when the song was on the charts, where I first heard it. The '60s, and what was happening in the US, I and others took the song as to be about America and what was happening and being done in her name. The powers-that-be in the name of greed and power, and furthering their own agenda, which appears to be happening again, but in a more pseudo-sophisticated and they hope, a more hidden way. To us, who have been there previously, are not fooled. In any case, the song spoke to me as a declaration of sorrow for the country and her true sons and daughters who tried to save her.