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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: He Has Spoken |
| Date | Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:08:43 -0500 |
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From: "Bill Jones" <wigout6@juno.com>
>> the Pretenders' "2000 Miles" gets harder to listen to every year.
>
> Huh? Does that song have a connection to the White House?
I'm one of those people who's always thought the subtext to "2000
Miles" was that the "he" who wasn't back at Christmastime was a
soldier killed in action -- remember, this first came out during a
spate of songs inspired by the Falklands war: Elvis Costello and
Robert Wyatt's "Shipbuilding," Billy Bragg's "Island of No Return,"
the Bluebells' "South Atlantic Way," that rather ghastly Pink Floyd
album. It's always been a terribly sad song, but for the last four
years, it's always hit me like a punch in the gut.
S
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