YOU'VE BEEN RUNNING FROM THE MAN

I have something of an inordinate affection for the 1970s-80s band America (yup, they still were around in the 1980s, and, heh, my first-ever live concert, back in 1987, was a package show with America and Three Dog Night and say what you will, that was a good show) -- though I admit that their lyrics were frequently ridiculous. Not even touching "Muskrat Love" or the reference to "alligator lizards" in "Ventura Highway" -- perhaps their most famous song, "Horse With No Name," contains the line "plants and birds and rocks and things." How lazy and/or stoned was that -- "things" is hardly evocative. (I like the song otherwise, though I would deny it if so accused were it not for the fact that I'm now posting it onto the Internet. Yeah, like anyone uses the Internet.)

But according to my colleague Steve, these aren't the most egregious of America's lyrics. He cites this example from the song "Sandman":

Honey, I been there
You been here
We ain't had no time to drink that beer

Steve insists: There's always, always time to drink that beer.

I have no effective counter-argument for that one.

Ain't it foggy outside?

Sounds & Images: "Sandman," natch

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I sadly missed it, I thinks ... but happy birthday to shaunathan!