Ol’ Bocephus has been a favorite of mine since I was young and he was singing about being a shadow and answering all them folks who’d ask him “Why must you live out the songs that you wrote.”
In this song he surely captures the angst and the pain these people are feelin’, but he misses the point. The problem these folks got ain’t that they’re unemployed (I’m unemployed every morning), it’s that they were sold a lie and now they’re learnin’ a hard truth: it’s rarely the one tellin’ the lies who pays in the end.
I think so too, but it’s a better story this way, and who am I to begrudge Ol’ Hank from making some lemonade.
>they were sold a lie and now they’re learnin’ a hard truth: it’s rarely the one tellin’ the lies who pays in the end.
They aren’t learnin’ squat. Not to be Debbie Downer here, but people still aren’t learning, they are protesting. What do they want? A mommy! When do they want it? Nowwwwww. And so it goes…
Sean Purcell says:
Ol’ Bocephus has been a favorite of mine since I was young and he was singing about being a shadow and answering all them folks who’d ask him “Why must you live out the songs that you wrote.”
In this song he surely captures the angst and the pain these people are feelin’, but he misses the point. The problem these folks got ain’t that they’re unemployed (I’m unemployed every morning), it’s that they were sold a lie and now they’re learnin’ a hard truth: it’s rarely the one tellin’ the lies who pays in the end.
October 4, 2011 — 7:53 am
Greg Swann says:
> they were sold a lie and now they’re learnin’ a hard truth: it’s rarely the one tellin’ the lies who pays in the end.
Indeed. It’s much the same song as “We can’t make it here anymore.”
October 4, 2011 — 9:22 am
Teri Lussier says:
My least fave Hank…
>he misses the point.
I think so too, but it’s a better story this way, and who am I to begrudge Ol’ Hank from making some lemonade.
>they were sold a lie and now they’re learnin’ a hard truth: it’s rarely the one tellin’ the lies who pays in the end.
They aren’t learnin’ squat. Not to be Debbie Downer here, but people still aren’t learning, they are protesting. What do they want? A mommy! When do they want it? Nowwwwww. And so it goes…
October 4, 2011 — 8:03 pm