I thought this was a great song a while back, but I never knew who was singing. I heard it maybe twice, but it stuck in my head. Not being a rock fan, I didn't think all that much about it until today when I heard the band Coldplay was being sued by Joe Satriani. Well, at least I found out who the artist is. Then I found the lyrics. Pretty great lyrics, too. If you can, give the song a listen. Powerful stuff, and here are the lyrics:
http://www.metrolyrics.com/viva-la-vida-lyrics-coldplay.htmlThey seem to me to be a direct reference to pre-9/11 America, or perhaps even post-WWII to 9/11 America. We once ruled the world with good intentions. Everything went our way. The world looked to us for the right path. Then the world changed and America changed. We live in a castle made of sand. We buried the tyrant old kings, only to become tyrant kings ourselves.
"People couldn’t believe what I’d become
Revolutionaries wait
For my head on a silver plate
Just a puppet on a lonely string
Oh who would ever want to be king?"
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