And that’s sort of what ‘Pink Houses’ is about. I don’t mean to get political, but I do get wound up about these kinds of things because so many people see it as it’s really not. Leo from Westminster 1, Md Pink Houses is anything but an affirmation of so-called 'Traditional American values Only John Mellencamp has the bravery and balls to look America right between the red, white and blue eyes because the American dream is a nightmare and a myth. I’m not condoning what Russia did, but that’s bullshit! There’s so many things we’ve done, and then we expect them to apologize when we had a spy plane beside the plane that got shot down! Let’s see the deal as it really was! And the majority of the public is going to fall right in line with the way Reagan wants them to think.

It’s like the Russians shooting down that plane, and we want them to apologize. It’s not rah, rah, rah America at all, and I think it puts America in its place. Lilacs and tiger-lilies won't be enough for me when you're gone Hollyhocks, gladiolas, will never replace this face In your little pink house with the blue polka-dots I learned what I was and what I was not, Supposed to be Supposed to be Supposed to be Supposed to be Bleeding heart, lily-of-the-valley Snapdragon, rambling rose You'll never make it in this world If you're not one of those In. The American dream has pretty much proven itself as not working anymore.” John Mellencamp (223) “It’s saying the American Dream and all that shit is propaganda.

This one has been misconstrued over the years because of the chorus – it sounds very rah-rah. General CommentI think this song is about how there comes a time in your life when you realize youre too old to be a dreamer. So I went with that positive route when I wrote this song. Music lyrics tend to move me so weve been sharing a song together to get. I thought, “Wow, is this what life can lead to? Watching the fucking cars go by on the interstate?” Then I imagined he wasn’t isolated, but he was happy. Because our Little Pink retreats take place in different areas all over the. Little Pink Houses Theres a black man with a black cat Livin in a black neighborhood Hes got an interstate runnin through his front yard You know he. He was sitting on his front lawn in front of a pink house in one of those shitty, cheap lawn chairs. “I was driving through Indianapolis on Interstate 65 and I saw a black man holding either a dog or a cat. Little pink houses for you and me Oh, yeah, for you and me Ey Verse 3 Well, there's a young man in a t-shirt Listen' to a rock 'n' roll station He's got greasy hair, greasy smile He says, 'Lord.

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