The Sound of the Crowd

The Politicians Are Now DJs

In 1970, John Fogerty wrote “Who’ll Stop the Rain.” This song, to quote the AllMusic Guide, “has sometimes been interpreted as a veiled protest against the Vietnam War, which in 1970 seemed like an endless quagmire of disaster. That it could be, with its fatalistic but slightly angry mood, and images (particularly in the title-chorus) of a rain that seems impossible to stop.”

Reading this opinion piece in Salon, about how–

“Neocons were dead wrong about Iraq in at least 21 (count ‘em) ways. Yet Wolfowitz, Krauthammer et al. are nevertheless pushing for “preemption” in Iran,”

Song Styles

Here comes the rain again

Falling on my head like a memory

Falling on my head like a new emotion

(here it comes again, here it comes again)

I want to walk in the open wind

I want to talk like lovers do

I want dive into your ocean

Is it raining with you?

Eurythmics, “Here Comes The Rain Again”


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