>I always find it hard to resist quoting Randy Newman, even though I
>realized recently that he's not an ironist or a satirist, but really
>means and believes pretty much everything he says.
>
>This is from "The World Isn't Fair":
>http://www.randynewman.com/tocdiscography/disc_bad_love/lyricsbadlove#theworldisntfair
>
>If Marx were living today
>He'd be rolling around in his grave
>And if I had him here in my mansion on the hill
>I'd tell him a story t'would give his old heart a chill
>It's something that happened to me
>
>I'd say, Karl I recently stumbled
>Into a new family
>With two little children in school
>Where all little children should be
>I went to the orientation
>All the young mommies were there
>Karl, you never have seen such a glorious sight
>As these beautiful women arrayed for the night
>Just like countesses, empresses, movie stars and queens
>And they'd come there with men much like me
>Froggish men, unpleasant to see
>Were you to kiss one, Karl
>Nary a prince would there be
You make it sound like the meaning of this, um, text is transparent. It sounds pretty complicated and ambivalent to me. E.g., the conclusion:
>Oh Karl the world isn't fair
>It isn't and never will be
>They tried out your plan
>It brought misery instead
>If you'd seen how they worked it
>You'd be glad you were dead
>Just like I'm glad I'm living in the land of the free
>Where the rich just get richer
>And the poor you don't ever have to see
>It would depress us, Karl
>Because we care
>That the world still isn't fair
Out of sight, but never quite out of mind.
Doug