![]() ![]() Cuz it may hav been started in 2001 but Glenn said that Don didn't come up with the lyrics till years later. I like how they embraced their edgier side Ozzy from Fresno, Cawow i was so shocked to hear them so recent and as good as ever.i hope that settles any dispute over the matter, but please feel free to comment with any opinions on what i said. it is about society, particularly american society, and henley devotes an entire verse to what he calls "cultural junk." it is also about human morals and and how they are often lost in the sight of ambition, such as creating an empire, as he speaks of. also, this psalm is often read at funerals, therefore showing us that sullen imagery. psalm 23 is about the protection god has over his people, and it calls him a shepard-perhaps another clue to the theory of wandering, and that we must be led. it is also important to mention the reference to psalm 23 in the third line of the song. then there is the appian way, which was the most important road in the ancient roman empire, and the story of sparticus and his slave comes from this, where they were defeated by the roman army and crusified along this path-once again giving morose imagery. mandalay is a city in burma, and has been a centerpoint of many other songs. it also is a biblical reference, where in the book of isaiah, there is a prophacy that states the city will become a "heap of ruins." this is more than likely pointing out the direction that america is headed. still more lines support images of the creation when he sings about "galaxies unfolding, new worlds being born." still the idea of iraq can be proved absurd because the line "been down the road to damascus, the road to mandalay met the ghost of caesar on the appian highway." damascus is in syria, and is one of the oldest cities in the world. another reference to genesis in the line "i can't tell wrong from right," which parallels the theme of the tree of knoledge in the garden of eden. henley decribes society as wanderers in this sense, and it is worth noting that the opening music gives this impression of wandering. first of all, the long road out of eden probably refers to a leaving of paradise, as shown in the bible when cain, a wanderer, must leave to go east of eden after killing his brother. this is obviously a very spiritual song, with multiple biblical references besides that of eden. Patrick from Grand Rapids, Miokay people, personally i belive don henley to be a bit too intelligent to be writing a song with his only intent on the war in iraq.I love this song, it makes us think of all the stupid things people do just to get rich Why bother with a country that won't bring a profit to our sociaty. Get real and think about why soldiers still have to fight, it's all about money. Pieter from Eersel, NetherlandsDear people, if you listen and look very carefully, this is just about greed.Eddie from Long Beach, NyA fantastic song, and in my opinion, one of Joe Walsh's best guitar solos.The excesses of America will do us in we don’t need ISIS to do it for us. from Columbus, OhioI concur with what Debi LeFors and Jeff from Cleveland wrote. ![]() The spiritual references are replete throughout the entire song. even though I walk through the shadow of death I’m not afraid cause I’m the meanest sonofabitch here. Karogar from TexasThe 23rd psalm was often recited in Vietnam, I was there in 1969.I think we've cornered the market on cultural junk, pretty much." I think with the words 'cultural junk' I got my point across. So I changed it back to American highway just to make it broader in scope. In the end I decided that it wouldn't make a lot of sense with the rest of the song just to suddenly go over and start talking about computers and the Internet. But, just like television, the Internet has a lot of useless crap going on. There are wonderful things on there, too - it's such a resource of knowledge and information. It's such a big waste of time if you aren't careful. He told Billboard: "I was originally going to write 'weaving down the information highway' because I get on my computer every day and there is so much crap on the Internet. Through the litter and the wreckage and the cultural junkīloated with entitlement, loaded on propaganda Breathless cable news anchors and clickbait internet stories had taken the place of nuanced coverage, and more than ever it was driven by moneyed interests. Much of this song deals with the way information was disseminated in modern times. ![]()
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