RE: Trump Thinks Britian Is Spying On Him On Orders From Barrack Obama
March 22, 2017 at 9:27 am
(March 22, 2017 at 9:07 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(March 22, 2017 at 8:56 am)Brian37 Wrote: Tom Sawyer t"he gets by on you", and "mean mean pride" kinda negates the other line "don't put him down as arrogant".
Red Barchetta
"My Uncle Has a country place
No one knows about" implying his family or at least his extended family is well off.
lol, you realize that the latter is set a few hundred years in the future, and is not autobiographical?
(March 22, 2017 at 8:56 am)Brian37 Wrote: Barchehettas are two seater sports cars. Teen boys certainly can have an affinity to those things, I did at one time, but I also came from the suburbs and my family was middle class. Those lines in that song do not strike me as a poor family or even middle class family in desperation.
None of them came from wealth; they were all three born into middle-class families. And their lyrics, written by Neil Peart, do often espouse libertarian views, but that hardly means that 1) their oeuvre has an agenda pushing upper-class concerns, or 2) your interpretation of a couple of isolated lines is apt.
You might want to learn a little bit before opining. You're not doing yourself any favors.
I never claimed they came from say a Trump level income. You can be middle class and a trust fund kid. I am a trust fund kid. Even with suburban kids like me. I went to private school as a kid until high school. My parents had two houses until my dad died in 1980. My dad drove a Mercedes. We had a 30 foot sailboat. My uncle lived in Half Moon Bay on a very expensive street outside San Fran. My parents provided well for me but they were not filthy rich. My mom was a grade school teacher and my dad was a high school biology teacher. Hardly rich, but certainly middle class.
Yes their lyrics do portray libertarian views. Thanks for proving my point. I don't see either republican or libertarian economic views as helping either the middle class or poor. I don't care if they did come from the middle class like me. Libertarians to me get the social issues right, but as far as economics they to me are really nothing but republicans on steroids.
As far as Dylan. While I cannot stand his voice, his lyrics do convey empathy for others to a great degree, a social awareness of others. RUSH simply comes across as selling to those who daydream about having fun. I do still like RUSH but I don't see their lyrics the same way I did when I first started listening to them.
