How they got so much of the reality into such a short tune I don't know. If you watch the video, there's even more in it. It's about human spirit triumphing. Is that a too corny way to say it? The spirit of a people, or a person, triumphing even in defeat. A contradiction, an oxymoron, but that's what it is. All that creeping restriction and oppression, and yet so much soaring energy for hope and life.
How they got so much of the reality into such a short tune I don't know. If you watch the video, there's even more in it. It's about human spirit triumphing. Is that a too corny way to say it? The spirit of a people, or a person, triumphing even in defeat. A contradiction, an oxymoron, but that's what it is. All that creeping restriction and oppression, and yet so much soaring energy for hope and life.