C.W. McCall was a Colorado native...he died recently and since Colorado Day was the 1st of August, I thought I'd recognize a Colorado native. Ya gotta admit that this is a fun song...not great...but fun.
Fort Hood is the base in Texas that's lost the most people in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The first verse is about guilt. That you can go about your daily life without thinking of the violence and the fear in Iraq, and the sacrifice people are making over there.
The first part of the second verse is about frustration with political pissing matches, instead of unity among our elected representatives to serve these guys. The second half is about how the war haunts you; how you see dudes in uniform in airports and wonder what's going on in their heads, what they've witnessed.
The bridge is about lost innocence. Young guys that go over there and come back scarred--bodily, often, but also psychologically, that so many of them will have the burden of post-traumatic stress disorder, nightmares, haunting images.
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I'd rather watch movie stars get fat
I'd rather hang up the flag and be done with it
I'd rather keep the fire and the frenzy out of my mind
I'd rather take sides in an argument
I'd rather crank up the bass in a dark basement
I'd rather leave the mobs and the murder in a distant land
Let the sunshine in
Let the sunshine in
The sunshine in
My vote's a bed and a football pool
Five on the red, six on the blue
Wake up fool, there's no time for a shouting match
I smell blood and there's no blood around
Blanked out eyes and a blanked out sound
I see them coming back motionless in an airport lounge
Let the sunshine in
Let the sunshine in
The sunshine in
You should be getting stoned with a prom dressed girl
You should still believe in an endless world
You should blast Young Jeezy with your friends in a parking lot
Let the sunshine in
Let the sunshine in
The sunshine in