This song was released in 1982 and it's about the industrial decline and economic malaise that affected the UK in the 1970s and continued into the early 1980s. Even though the economy would recover later in the decade, this was only really due to the growth of the service sector. The lyrics of the song compare the economic malaise to a literal disease - I quite like how Mark Knopfler describes the absurd things happening in a deadpan manner. Especially the brillaint lines"Two men say they're Jesus / One of them must be wrong!"
The "protest singer" is just a reference to daft conspiracy theorists who feel the need to imagine that there's a secret plot behind everything the government does. What the protest singer is claiming is that the government deliberately engineered the Falklands War to distract people from their economic problems. He then goes on to claim that the 'system' gives people distractions like "gassy beer, page three / Two weeks in Espana and Sunday striptease" to further cover it up.
The "Brewers droop" effect is when someone's sex drive is damaged by alcoholism. It was also the name of a band that Mark Knopfler previously played in.
@noonebeatsdylan Wow...every single government in the Western World is OWNED by the ruling elites, the world is controlled by the Fascist elite. EVERYTHING is thus a conspiracy...everything! We can no longer afford to be so naive about the reality of this world. Knopfler wrote a song exposing precisely HOW society operates and why...
@noonebeatsdylan Wow...every single government in the Western World is OWNED by the ruling elites, the world is controlled by the Fascist elite. EVERYTHING is thus a conspiracy...everything! We can no longer afford to be so naive about the reality of this world. Knopfler wrote a song exposing precisely HOW society operates and why...
This song was released in 1982 and it's about the industrial decline and economic malaise that affected the UK in the 1970s and continued into the early 1980s. Even though the economy would recover later in the decade, this was only really due to the growth of the service sector. The lyrics of the song compare the economic malaise to a literal disease - I quite like how Mark Knopfler describes the absurd things happening in a deadpan manner. Especially the brillaint lines"Two men say they're Jesus / One of them must be wrong!"
The "protest singer" is just a reference to daft conspiracy theorists who feel the need to imagine that there's a secret plot behind everything the government does. What the protest singer is claiming is that the government deliberately engineered the Falklands War to distract people from their economic problems. He then goes on to claim that the 'system' gives people distractions like "gassy beer, page three / Two weeks in Espana and Sunday striptease" to further cover it up.
The "Brewers droop" effect is when someone's sex drive is damaged by alcoholism. It was also the name of a band that Mark Knopfler previously played in.
@noonebeatsdylan Wow...every single government in the Western World is OWNED by the ruling elites, the world is controlled by the Fascist elite. EVERYTHING is thus a conspiracy...everything! We can no longer afford to be so naive about the reality of this world. Knopfler wrote a song exposing precisely HOW society operates and why...
@noonebeatsdylan Wow...every single government in the Western World is OWNED by the ruling elites, the world is controlled by the Fascist elite. EVERYTHING is thus a conspiracy...everything! We can no longer afford to be so naive about the reality of this world. Knopfler wrote a song exposing precisely HOW society operates and why...