Terence Rendall from Kent EnglandA hall of fame induction is long overdue for supertramp.We just got a "Because that's what we said!" " Don't question authority!" as we just wanted them to help us it LOGICAL. I swear this song sums up the lives many of us who got in trouble for asking question in Baptist School. There is then there are 'keyboard warriors'. People just like to feel like while hiding behind their keyboards. Pincho73 from PoconosWhy would people get on this thread to say they dislike Supertramp and The Logical Song?. Ardumpax from ArubaAli from Tripoli, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,.The computerized stuttering in "d-d-digital" is a good example, a deft reference to the kind of dangers of the digital age later explored in depth in "OK Computer". It's the pure feelings of a simple man in an age of anxiety, and his anxiety was prescient and shared by many. The film "Billy Elliot" offers a good insight into what was happening in those years.įrom one perspective, this song contains a premonition of all that, a sixth sense of the country heading in the wrong direction, away from compassion and anonymous trust towards a more ruthless and cruel social contract. Griflet from ColoradoThis song was released in 1978 in England during a period of uncertainty and social and political upheaval which would only get worse during the Thatcher administration in the years following - high unemployment, strikes, riots, class warfare, the Falklands War.Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group (Oh, won't you tell me) please tell me who I am (Can you hear me?) I know it sounds absurd Respectable, oh, presentable, a vegetableīut at night, when all the world's asleep Oh, won't you sign up your name? We'd like to feel you're acceptable I said, now, watch what you say, they'll be calling you a radical Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned? There are times when all the world's asleep Then they showed me a world where I could be so dependable When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderfulĪnd all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happilyīut then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible
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