Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Thought of the Day
I keep my eyes on the prize, on the long fallen skies
And I don't let my friends get hurt.
All you back room schemers, star trip dreamers
Better find something new to say,
'Cause you're the same old story;
It's the same old crime
And you got some heavy dues to pay.
Steve Miller (back when he was good) in Space Cowboy
And I don't let my friends get hurt.
All you back room schemers, star trip dreamers
Better find something new to say,
'Cause you're the same old story;
It's the same old crime
And you got some heavy dues to pay.
Steve Miller (back when he was good) in Space Cowboy
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 5:14 AM 
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This is the true final lyric stanza for this song (not "small trip dreamers" that you see everywhere. It was a jab at Jefferson Airplane and their obsession with moving the counterculture elsewhere through the hijacking of a starship( Lyrically, the album, Blows Against the Empire, celebrates countercultural idealism; it is set in a future where the counterculture is able to unite and decide their own fate far away from planet Earth. Written in 1970, Kantner describes in "Hijack" the construction of a starship beginning in 1980, which "ought to be ready by 1990." Steve saw through the B.S. and the end of the the sixties counterculture. This song calls them out and lets them know it's time to do something to change the world and to ACT on all those idealistic lyrics.
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