The Beatles started out writing with their Hearts and finished writing with their Heads. John Prine has always done both.
This one's pretty straight forward and doesn't need to be analyzed to figure out. From start to finish it's clearly about the good ole' USA and the Vietnam War, he uses plenty of symbolism and the allusions are clear.
@keets55 What a clueless remark. If you think there's no 'heart' (silly metaphor anyway, since everything is written with your brain (head) in "Let It Be", "Across the Universe", "Don't Let Me Down", "You Never Give Me Your Money", "Something", "Golden Slumbers", "The Long and Winding Road", and "Here Comes the Sun" then you're hopelessly lost as to what 'heart' means in that context. Prine also wrote some pretty silly songs as well, and others where he missed the mark trying to be topical....
@keets55 What a clueless remark. If you think there's no 'heart' (silly metaphor anyway, since everything is written with your brain (head) in "Let It Be", "Across the Universe", "Don't Let Me Down", "You Never Give Me Your Money", "Something", "Golden Slumbers", "The Long and Winding Road", and "Here Comes the Sun" then you're hopelessly lost as to what 'heart' means in that context. Prine also wrote some pretty silly songs as well, and others where he missed the mark trying to be topical.
The Beatles started out writing with their Hearts and finished writing with their Heads. John Prine has always done both.
This one's pretty straight forward and doesn't need to be analyzed to figure out. From start to finish it's clearly about the good ole' USA and the Vietnam War, he uses plenty of symbolism and the allusions are clear.
@keets55 What a clueless remark. If you think there's no 'heart' (silly metaphor anyway, since everything is written with your brain (head) in "Let It Be", "Across the Universe", "Don't Let Me Down", "You Never Give Me Your Money", "Something", "Golden Slumbers", "The Long and Winding Road", and "Here Comes the Sun" then you're hopelessly lost as to what 'heart' means in that context. Prine also wrote some pretty silly songs as well, and others where he missed the mark trying to be topical....
@keets55 What a clueless remark. If you think there's no 'heart' (silly metaphor anyway, since everything is written with your brain (head) in "Let It Be", "Across the Universe", "Don't Let Me Down", "You Never Give Me Your Money", "Something", "Golden Slumbers", "The Long and Winding Road", and "Here Comes the Sun" then you're hopelessly lost as to what 'heart' means in that context. Prine also wrote some pretty silly songs as well, and others where he missed the mark trying to be topical.