It was another way for me to sneak something in. But I hate you I really hate you so much I think it must be true love' The meaning behind these lyrics are easy to relate to for anyone who has been in a long term relationship with someone that is not perfect, yet despite their flaws you still love everything about them. BUT (on the other hand) the simple man pays for thrills - with bills, and pills that. Where you realize that you can no longer be. Go to work in some high rise, and vacation down at the Gulf of Mexico. “The American dream had pretty much proven itself as not working anymore. I think this song is about how there comes a time in your life when you realize youre too old to be a dreamer. But it’s really an anti-American song,” he told Rolling Stone in the same interview. “This one has been misconstrued over the years because of the chorus – it sounds very rah-rah. In fact, the song wasn’t the way many think it is. Just by an observation of one man’s existence in the interstate of Indianapolis, John Mellencamp took a great issue with American life. “You know, he thinks, he’s got it so good / And there’s a woman in the kitchen cleaning up evening slop / And he looks at her and says, ‘Hey darling, I can remember when you could stop a clock.” “There’s a black man with a black cat / Living in a black neighborhood / He’s got an interstate running’ through his front yard,” he depicts. Wasiu & Bonne), WHEN DYA DECIDE TO SAY GOODBYE, pink houses. ![]() Pink Houses (Aint That America) by John Mellencamp. Lyrically, it was a straightforward approach. Wasiu), DANGEROUS, yours truly, BROKEN (feat. Originally written as music only in 1883, with lyrics coming along in 1895, Charles rendition is. So, I went with that positive route when I wrote this song.” He continued, “Then I imagined he wasn’t isolated, but he was happy. crazy Some girl that knows the meaning of uh Hey, hit the highway Well. ![]() I thought, ‘Wow, is this what life can lead to? Watching the fuckin’ cars go by on the interstate?,’” he told Rolling Stone in 2013. I Need a Lover Hurts So Good Pink Houses. It mocks suburban tract housing as 'little boxes' of different colors 'all made out of ticky-tacky ', and which 'all look just the same'. “ was sitting on his front lawn in front of a pink house in one of those shitty, cheap lawn chairs. The song is a social satire about the development of suburbia, and associated conformist middle-class attitudes. ‘Pink Houses’ was John’s most misunderstood song, he was inspired to write this song when he saw a black man holding a black cat on his front lawn – cool and calm:
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