This isn't really a song meaning, but it is an interesting article and is taken from the bands official website.
Lead singer Jim Kerr is quoted as saying “more than music, ever since my earliest childhood years, books have meant so much to me. Books are revered all over the world and of course for many people certain books are sacrosanct. Books allow people to think for themselves, allowing access to knowledge forgotten or out of favour with the times. Books, as with recorded music, travel over time and distance greater than the author could ever accomplish in person. Dictators have throughout time understood how important it was to control knowledge – to control a nation! Books were burned and banned as a result. My father’s experience as a simple man who educated himself to the highest level, inspired me to write that song.”.
This isn't really a song meaning, but it is an interesting article and is taken from the bands official website.
Lead singer Jim Kerr is quoted as saying “more than music, ever since my earliest childhood years, books have meant so much to me. Books are revered all over the world and of course for many people certain books are sacrosanct. Books allow people to think for themselves, allowing access to knowledge forgotten or out of favour with the times. Books, as with recorded music, travel over time and distance greater than the author could ever accomplish in person. Dictators have throughout time understood how important it was to control knowledge – to control a nation! Books were burned and banned as a result. My father’s experience as a simple man who educated himself to the highest level, inspired me to write that song.”.