I had not heard of Red Rider or this song. I did however, go search it out and listened. I am curious to hear your take on the song. Given all the far away places mentioned... The 'rain' part is quite relevant for me personally, I live tooo far from the ocean, but, my lawn is not that far away from being desert like...
I do not like confusion and the last place I ever expected confusion to arise is out of 'pro-lifers' and yet here I am trying to understand what took place this week. I have about decided there is a language barrier. Reality does not seem to be the strong suit. I am not even ticked off at the GOP-e because I have come to expect nothing more from them than demanding my vote so they can compromise with liberalism. WE did not get this far in debt from liberals alone.
Do not forget one of those Carnahans was dead when this state elected him.
The song “White Hot” is very loosely about a depraved French poet, Arthur Rimbaud, who ended up as a gun runner in Ethiopia, among other things. The “picture” it draws is quite dramatic, and I’ve always liked music that does that. At the time I came across it, I did a lot of work at clubs (bars) and such where sex was easy to find had that been all I wanted. But it wasn’t, and I was viewed by most as “different” (which I was), probably as quite the geek - you get the picture. So it got pretty lonely, even though all this “stuff” was going on around me every night. Before that was an even “dryer” time (long story I won’t go in to here). Anyway, it was quite a few years and describing my life as wandering through the desert and then finding the ocean, not the rain, sort of fit.
These days, I have a wonderful wife & family and all that is past. :-) But one never forgets it.
As for a present interpretation, your talking about not being able to understand some of your fellow pro-lifers hit a chord. Here you are trying to explain the reality of the political situation in MO, and a good number of your fellow FReepers are off in fantasy land, huffing and puffing about courage, and so on. That latter is pretty easy to do on a board where almost everyone is anonymous. It’s a little harder to come up with arguments that will win over some moderates. Without those, and some realistic strategies, we won’t get far. :-(