Album: No More Beautiful World (2007)
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Songfacts®:

  • When asked if this song was written as a love letter to the current (Bush) administration, singer/songwriter Roger Clyne responds cryptically, "It could be." But it could also be about your own administration, he says. Everybody's got one and typically everybody's administration has let them down at one point, or tried to push for things that required no pushing.
  • Clyne's abhorrence of war and violence is well known, yet he manages to stay under the radar with it. Condemnation does not offer a solution, so, though his songs often contain anti-war messages, he does it with mostly subtle undertones. (Get more in our Roger Clyne interview. His website is azpeacemakers.com.)

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