Posted by floatingbridge on August 3, 2011, at 8:37:48
In reply to Re: Everything is free now, posted by sigismund on August 3, 2011, at 1:21:37
Oh for golly sakes. About copyright? That is very silly.
> This is the one that you feel strongly about, hey?
>
> >What do you think it's about?Well, there is the autobiographical, where I was when I first heard it; also of a life once familiar, using a tip jar to gas up the car.
Then there is the defiance and freedom of the lyrics. I like how sigi put it, liberation and saddness. Maybe the saddness is haunted by a sense of futility, but accepted with dignity and a steel spine, qualities I admire greatly. The narrator seems working class. Though Ms. Welch was not, really. But that doesn't matter.
Modern American depression era. The big rock candy mountain and all. Someone's hit the big time. The big time is very much part of the myth in the US. But, really, most of us work every day of our lives.
Written out, it's not a poetic masterwork. But add the music and the voice, and it's just magic to me.
>
> There was a discussion on youtube about whether it was about copyright, which I refuse to believe.
>
> Here are the words
>
> Everything is free now,
> That's what they say.
> Everything I ever done,
> Gotta give it away.
> Someone hit the big score.
> They figured it out,
> That we're gonna do it anyway,
> Even if doesn't pay.
>
> I can get a tip jar,
> Gas up the car,
> And try to make a little change
> Down at the bar.
>
> Or I can get a straight job,
> I've done it before.
> I never minded working hard,
> It's who I'm working for.
>
> (Chorus)
>
> Every day I wake up,
> Hummin' a song.
> But I don't need to run around,
> I just stay home.
>
> And sing a little love song,
> My love, to myself.
> If there's something that you want to hear,
> You can sing it yourself.
>
> 'Cause everything is free now,
> That what I say.
> No one's got to listen to
> The words in my head.
> Someone hit the big score,
> And I figured it out,
> That we're gonna do it anyway,
> Even if doesn't pay.
>
> There's sadness there, but liberation too.
>
> She and Dave Rawlings are going to tour here next year, I heard today.
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