I’m not an immigrant. Neither were my parents or theirs.
But this song has always moved me. It expresses exactly the paradox of fleeing one horrible place, finding another horrible place, but still managing to hold each in one’s heart in a place of respect and sometimes even endearment.
RIP Shane McGowan, who passed today at age 65. I know he didn’t write this one, but I went to revisit the Pogues’ catalogue just now and needed to say farewell.
I’m not an immigrant. Neither were my parents or theirs. But this song has always moved me. It expresses exactly the paradox of fleeing one horrible place, finding another horrible place, but still managing to hold each in one’s heart in a place of respect and sometimes even endearment.
RIP Shane McGowan, who passed today at age 65. I know he didn’t write this one, but I went to revisit the Pogues’ catalogue just now and needed to say farewell.