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Description: I wrote this cira 1970 at the age of 18. It probably had as much to do with education as with the notion in the song that freedom stolen from a prisoner is not automatically returned at the end of the sentence.
I believe I was arguing against the defeatism suffered by some when the struggle for justice is stymied. As Howard Zinn once said, the changes that we effect are not always visible in the context of our own lives, at least not entirely, as the borders of history are wider than that.
If a therapist were analyzing me and why I wrote it, I think he or she would say I wrote it for my father, whose intransigence--against which I constantly battled--was a model for my own, the side of me I wanted to go beyond, that prevented me from being my own person because i alternately hated and loved him.
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About rebirth and renewal
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Go Down You ...
Go Down You Broken Old Man
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