Wednesday, 6 July 2011

TOP TEN FREETHINKER SONGS : NUMBER SIX

At number six of my personal top ten freethinker songs;
Prelude-After The Goldrush



Brilliant song. When I first heard it, I understood it as the tale of the Twentieth Century so far (up to the early '70s), with the events in no particular order.
The Knights in Armour coming, saying something about a Queen. . .The death of Queen Victoria.
Fanfare blowing to the sun that was floating in the breeze. . .The idea of UFOs and those who acknowledge them, especially the event labelled the Miracle of the Sun in Fatima and
Mother Nature on the run in the 1917. . .the destruction caused by trench warfare in the Great War, both the Miracle of the Sun and the peak of destruction happening in 'the' 1917.
Lying in a burned out basement. . .The blitz, the aerial bombing of cities on and by both sides in World War Two.
The sun burst through the skies. . .Alamogordo, 16th of July 1945.
The silver spaceships flying. . .The V rockets on Britain or maybe the B29 bomber raids on Japan.
Banners flying all around the chosen one. . .Hitler's election to the Reichstag.
Flying Mother nature's silver seeds. . .the Apollo programme, especially the moon landings.
And it doesn't mention a god or the need for one at all.
I was wrong, of course. But not about it not mentioning a god.