Love the lines “Rock and Roll Will Never Die” and “break out and start a fire, you all; it’s ALL HERE on the vinyl” - a meta remark In this song about facing difficulties in our life and not blowing them up to be the end of the world. I find a similar sentiment in ‘Don’t Let Go The Coat’’s final verse-line: “ sure to get the hang of hanging in there someday”, which sounds to me like Pete speaking to his inner self about not getting too high or too low, not making life about great “events” that probably won’t happen, or don’t happen often enough to be worth having much faith in. It’s a poetic way of saying ‘Keep On Keeping On. There’s no Other way, day in day out, keep it on an even keel. Inside, at least...
Love the lines “Rock and Roll Will Never Die” and “break out and start a fire, you all; it’s ALL HERE on the vinyl” - a meta remark In this song about facing difficulties in our life and not blowing them up to be the end of the world. I find a similar sentiment in ‘Don’t Let Go The Coat’’s final verse-line: “ sure to get the hang of hanging in there someday”, which sounds to me like Pete speaking to his inner self about not getting too high or too low, not making life about great “events” that probably won’t happen, or don’t happen often enough to be worth having much faith in. It’s a poetic way of saying ‘Keep On Keeping On. There’s no Other way, day in day out, keep it on an even keel. Inside, at least...