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Old October 17th, 2018 #4
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Originally Posted by Alex Him View Post
It is quite possible that the more ancient song is now more relevant





Nautilus Pompilius - "Goodbye America" (1985)





Goodbye America [another name for the song is “Last message”]

If all the songs
Which I don't know will go into silence,
Then in the tart air
There will be a cry of my last paper steamship.

Goodbye, America!
Although I have never been to visit you.
Goodbye forever!
Take your banjo and play some farewell music for me.

Your shabby jeans
Are too small for me now.
We have been taught for so long
To love your forbidden fruits.

Goodbye, America!
Although I have never been to visit you.
Can I hear your song
That I will remember forever?
Another song which comes to mind would be . .


Even though this song comes across as glorifying in reality it was meant critically . .

Springsteen with this song primarily brings into daylight the problems of the Vietnam war generation . .


Lyrics here https://www.lyricsfreak.com/b/bruce+..._20024969.html



A society critical song . .One can make of it what one wants . .

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Originally Posted by Crowe View Post
I'll go ahead and admit it - I'm anti-American. This isn't based on what America used to be, or could be, but what it currently is, and represents.
Then I suppose I'm Anti-German too