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It's about the disillusionment of the end of the sixties/beginning of the seventies.
"So let's not talk of love and flowers And things that don't explode We've used up all our magic powers Trying to do it in the road"
The peace & love movement failed, and was consumed by the capitalist machine that it originally struggled against.
"You took my dream and canned it It is not the way I planned it"
The rest of the lyrics are expressing frustration, boiling over into the political violence of the seventies.
It's about the disillusionment of the end of the sixties/beginning of the seventies.
"So let's not talk of love and flowers And things that don't explode We've used up all our magic powers Trying to do it in the road"
The peace & love movement failed, and was consumed by the capitalist machine that it originally struggled against.
"You took my dream and canned it It is not the way I planned it"
The rest of the lyrics are expressing frustration, boiling over into the political violence of the seventies.