Thanks, Paula not Klaus, sorry about dropping the wrong name. The
extra quote you added is interesting. It certainly helps me see
Neil's point. I guess this is like Rockin In
The Free World. People glom on to that phrase and sing along and
cheer, but the song itself does not celebrate anything we should
cheer about.
Listening to the MP3 version with CSNY of Lets Roll you hear the guy
in the beginning, before the cel phone starts to ring "dude this is
the song I've been waiting for" and and the end he or someone else
near the taper yells out God Bless America. I would say the cynicism
really escaped that guy.
Rick 'proto-rustie'
--- In rust@y..., shofheinz@a... wrote:
it was printed in english. "oh, that. there is a certain amount of
cynicism
in this song that seems to escape people."
and later neil said, and this a translation, - come on, how stupid
can you
be, taking 'going after satan on the wings of dove' literally?! i
feel like
this is the point they tried to bring out in this RS issue:
cynicism vs
patriotism. personally i feel the cynicism in this song. back in my
mind i
see neil's heartbreakin' rendition of 'imagine' and doing 'long
road' with
eddie vedder. so there is no way i can see neil rolling with mr.
bush. but
this is just me.
paula.
