Great sound and production...brilliant, witty lyrics and an excellent job all round. Great video too.
I hope you don't mind me rambling some unqualified thoughts...after all, songs like this are surely meant to generate debate more than anything else...
I read an awful lot about the American Civil War...and came to the opinion that it was, in the eyes of most Southerners, firstly, a fight over States rights. Lincoln used the emancipation proclamation to turn it into a fight over slavery, largely, I think, because the North weren't doing terribly well, so it gave them a cause that more people could believe in...in addition to the cause they were already fighting for...and it stopped Britain and France from being able to publicly support the Confederacy. Then, to most Confederates, it became a fight against occupation (with the obvious main exception of the Gettysburg campaign)
The golden years of 1861-1865 were probably most fondly remembered by the indigenous population, as the (mostly) white men were far too busy slaughtering each other to complete the genocide they'd started and would quickly resume...despite their new-found sense of brotherhood and enlightenment.
Beating and starving the South into submission probably contributed enormously to the painful division that continues to this day.
Of course we all know that bigotry, stupidity, racism, sexism, hatred and all of the other shit that can run through peoples veins isn't directly linked to geography.
The guy mostly credited as being the greatest president the USA ever had said this...
“I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races … I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races from living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be a position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.” Abraham Lincoln, 18 September 1858
Pretty appalling stuff. Imagine anyone saying that nowadays...
If he was the greatest, and it's been all downhill from there...no wonder it's so much of a basket case now.
Who's your money on...Trump or Biden?
Good luck either way.
Honestly, you'd have to think that any half-way decent Democrat candidate couldn't fail to win...as I think I said in 2016...
Anyway...sorry for waffling...you've got a great song there...I just fancied a bit of a natter over it