4. Elementer HW Gade - NORDISC Music & Text

While the Sergeants played a marching tune
We all got up to dance
Oh, but we never got the chance
'Cause the players tried to take the field
Slutningen af 4. vers handler måske om Beatles som symbolet på den
(naive) hippieperiodes tro på sig selv, lige indtil "the players tried to take
the field", mens Beatles "refused to yield (give op)".
5. vers
Oh, and there we were all in one place
A generation Lost in Space
With no time left to start again
Den fortabte generation af omtågede hippier, da Woodstock drømmene
slukkedes "with no time left to start".
Jack Flash sat on a candlestick
'Cause fire is the Devil's only friend
I saw Satan laughing with delight
The day the music died
"Jack Flash" er cockney slang for heroin og Stones udsendte en single
"Jumpin' Jack Flash" i 1968. Disse linier er et frådende angreb på Rolling
Stones, Mick Jagger og bandets "medansvar" for drabet på en tilhører ved
den herostratisk berømte Altamont festival. Denne festival var det første
store tilbageslag for hippiernes fredsfilosofi.
"I saw satan laughing with delight" er nok et minde fra festivalen, hvor
Mick Jagger (uvidende om hvad der skete) sprang rundt på scenen, mens
mordet fandt sted.
6. vers
I met a girl who sang the blues
And I asked her for some happy news
But she just smiled and turned away
Oktober 1970 døde en af de største blues sangerinder fra 1960'erne,
Janis Joplin.
I went down to the sacred store
Where I'd heard the music years before
But the man there said the music wouldn't play
Kirken fungerer ikke, uskylden er borte, "the music wouldn't play".
And in the streets the children screamed
The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed
But not a word was spoken
The church bells all were broken
(De vietnamesiske) børn skriger, de elskede græder og digterne
drømmer. Men ingen kan råbe om hjælp, fordi "the church bells (all) were
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