As the government cuts us down with their irresponsible and short-sighted measures crushing our soul, burning our economy and maladjusting our society, we can but watch in disbelief as they cackle and delude themselves under a deluge of hubris and rank depraved stupidity allowing for a vortex of superstition to foolishly draw out our inner most primal emotion: Fear.
Rafferty wrote this song after a court battle with A&M music to release him of his contract and to signal his new beginning. He was a slave to the record label as we are to public health officials obsessed with the precautionary principle.
Popped this album rummaging through my olde sister's records around 1981. I put this song on and just sat back on the carpet resting my back against the couch. It was an epiphany of what music could be and I never looked back. In these days when government has stolen our liberty right from under us, the song still resonates and it makes me want to get into my car....and just fricken drive - with a cigarette (I don't smoke but why not?), and bourbon - from this seeming path to destruction we're being led into by thoughtless public officials. What are we without our FREEDOM? Be it speech, expression or choice. It blows my mind how ready people are to give it up.
This song always had a haunting, sweet, melodramatic, nostalgic, and liberating feel to it. It is one of the great masterpiece of rock music and seems appropriate here.
Hopefully, somehow, someway, we get our new morning and get back the liberty stolen from us.
Rafferty wrote this song after a court battle with A&M music to release him of his contract and to signal his new beginning. He was a slave to the record label as we are to public health officials obsessed with the precautionary principle.
Popped this album rummaging through my olde sister's records around 1981. I put this song on and just sat back on the carpet resting my back against the couch. It was an epiphany of what music could be and I never looked back. In these days when government has stolen our liberty right from under us, the song still resonates and it makes me want to get into my car....and just fricken drive - with a cigarette (I don't smoke but why not?), and bourbon - from this seeming path to destruction we're being led into by thoughtless public officials. What are we without our FREEDOM? Be it speech, expression or choice. It blows my mind how ready people are to give it up.
This song always had a haunting, sweet, melodramatic, nostalgic, and liberating feel to it. It is one of the great masterpiece of rock music and seems appropriate here.
Hopefully, somehow, someway, we get our new morning and get back the liberty stolen from us.
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