We're going to have another rude awakening, a war or depression where people are going to have to value one another again and not value money and winning alone. On the political environment we now have a President who likes winning and money and he represents aspects of the spectacle we were alluding to, and yet he's my President and I am for anyone who is my President. I'm an American and yet it's the style thing. We’ll see what happens. He’d like to see things work well and trying to get us to that place as a country.

They don't keep their promises in the promised land, its getting mighty hard to find an honest man.

In the streets the children screamed. The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed

And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield.

People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.

A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music use to make me smile.

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack sat on a candle stick, cause fire is the devil's only friend.