I think the under message in this song is that nothing lasts forever. Gord uses a lot of metaphores in this song to illustrate the, mainly with references to the Cold War. I think this was used because no one ever expected the USSR to collapse the way it did. I had a history professor who said if you had asked any reknown political analyist in 1988 or 1989 if they thought the USSR would be gone in a year or two they would have laughed at you. Even the most concrete of things can crumble.
But back to the cold war references. The Summit series of '72 was about as close as Canada ever came to actually fighting the USSR, and I'm happy to say we won :) "Comrades in the National Fitness Program" Also, the marriage in this song is compared to the "crisis in the Kremlin" with how fast thing went south.
The last verse just reiterates the theme of this song. There's so many fireworks in the sky, so breif, yet so bright that we can't see the long real stars anymore. As Wonderdog said, Gord Sinclair says this is in refernce to pop-culture, but you could probably use it to describe most things in life these days- love, hockey and Communist Unions.
I think the under message in this song is that nothing lasts forever. Gord uses a lot of metaphores in this song to illustrate the, mainly with references to the Cold War. I think this was used because no one ever expected the USSR to collapse the way it did. I had a history professor who said if you had asked any reknown political analyist in 1988 or 1989 if they thought the USSR would be gone in a year or two they would have laughed at you. Even the most concrete of things can crumble.
But back to the cold war references. The Summit series of '72 was about as close as Canada ever came to actually fighting the USSR, and I'm happy to say we won :) "Comrades in the National Fitness Program" Also, the marriage in this song is compared to the "crisis in the Kremlin" with how fast thing went south.
The last verse just reiterates the theme of this song. There's so many fireworks in the sky, so breif, yet so bright that we can't see the long real stars anymore. As Wonderdog said, Gord Sinclair says this is in refernce to pop-culture, but you could probably use it to describe most things in life these days- love, hockey and Communist Unions.