I happened to look up a ELO song for something, and I noted
that the lyrics seemed to (completely unintentionally) echo the situation in
our country right now.
My “interpretation” appears in RED.
Sorrow About To Fall
by Electric Light Orchestra –
“Balance of Power” (Ironic album title)
There's a silence in
the city, there's nobody around
(The “City” is Washington
DC, where there a few if any conservatives left)
And everyone that we
knew moved to higher ground
(People disengaging, losing
hope)
There's a shadow
hanging overhead, it lingers there alone
(Obama &
Socialism)
Changing all we ever
knew, the changes start to show
(Will the Great Country
that so many thousands of soldiers died for exist anymore?)
There's a sorrow
about to fall
There's a sorrow
about to fall
There's a new sound
in the wires, and ears are to the ground
(We all are
just waiting for the other shoe to drop; what’s next?)
And everything that
once was ours has slowly turned around
(The USA used to
be Of the People, For the People, now who is it for?)
Something happened to
the seasons, started falling with the rain
(Thousands
of drops of water/progressivism over the last 80 years)
And something changed
forever, we gotta find a way
(It is already over, but
people still hope – right?)
There's a sorrow
about to fall
There's a sorrow
about to fall
There's people in the
photographs, but they all had to run
They went away to
somewhere, beyond the setting sun
(The Founding Fathers
and other great statesmen – they now only exist in images on the walls, their
hopes and dreams for the future destroyed)
There's a sorrow
about to fall
There's a sorrow
about to fall
There's a sorrow
about to fall
There's a sorrow
about to fall
Here is the video of the original:
Sorrow about to Fall
or
Sorrow about to Fall
Scott.bolander@outlook.com
This was posted on 11/14/2012 - I backdated so it would appear somewhere other than the top of my blog, which is not political.
