Was any song ever more
prescient than The Who’s Won’t Get Fooled
Again?
The change it had to
come. We knew it all along. But the parting on the left is now the
parting on the right.
Are the
morals that we worship all gone? How
long before we’ll be fighting in the street with our children at our feet? Will our families be left even half alive? Did the shotgun always sing the song?
Townshend always made it
clear he would never be drawn into choosing sides between “us” and “them,” and,
although a lot of stuff has gone down in the last forty years, he proved
himself right. History ain’t changed.
Nothing in the street looks
any different to me either.
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. No wonder Daltrey blew out his vocal chords
with that scream.
