"I’m personally not into protest songs. For every one half-decent protest song, there are 500 unbelievably boring, embarrassing, tedious ones. I don’t consider 'The President’s Dead' a protest song. For one thing, it’s written from the point of view of a young Republican who is horrified at the assassination described in the song. I tried to write 'The President’s Dead' as a song whose narrative and musical accompaniment feints in one direction and then goes somewhere else."
"I’m personally not into protest songs. For every one half-decent protest song, there are 500 unbelievably boring, embarrassing, tedious ones. I don’t consider 'The President’s Dead' a protest song. For one thing, it’s written from the point of view of a young Republican who is horrified at the assassination described in the song. I tried to write 'The President’s Dead' as a song whose narrative and musical accompaniment feints in one direction and then goes somewhere else."
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