Eric Clapton anti-lockdown song

[way 2 go]

Stand and deliver
You let them put the fear on you
Stand and deliver
But not a word you heard was true
But if there's nothing you can say
There may be nothing you can do

Do you wanna be a free man
Or do you wanna be a slave?
Do you wanna be a free man
Or do you wanna be a slave?
Do you wanna wear these chains
Until you're lying in the grave?

I don't wanna be a pauper
And I don't wanna be a prince
I don't wanna be a pauper
And I don't wanna be a prince
I just wanna do my job
Playing the blues for friends

Magna Carta, Bill of Rights
The constitution, what's it worth?
You know they're gonna grind us down, ah
Until it really hurts
Is this a sovereign nation
Or just a police state?
You better look out, people
Before it gets too late


You wanna be your own driver
Or keep on flogging a dead horse?
You wanna be your own driver
Or keep on flogging a dead horse?
Do you wanna make it better
Or do you wanna make it worse?

Stand and deliver
You let them put the fear on you
Slow down the river
But not a word of it was true
If there's nothing you can say
There may be nothing you can do

Stand and deliver
Stand and deliver
Dick Turpin wore a mask too

 

[Gary K]

The reaction to this song by the political left says everything about how the culture of the left has been taken over by the totalitarians. A song that stands for liberty and freedom for the individual is now an anathema to the left.

 

[Trump Gurl]

The reaction to this song by the political left says everything about how the culture of the left has been taken over by the totalitarians. A song that stands for liberty and freedom for the individual is now an anathema to the left.

And that is even more fascinating when you figure that Clapton is still most likely a leftist. Does anyone thing he is a conservative?

 

[Gary K]

And that is even more fascinating when you figure that Clapton is still most likely a leftist. Does anyone thing he is a conservative?

Clapton is no conservative, but he's been singing songs about liberty and protesting what he saw as abuse of power for quite a few decades. To a certain extent that is the basis of rock-and-roll itself. It arose out of the protest songs of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger clear back in the 1930s and 1940s. Then the younger protestors came along: Peter, Paul and Mary, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, etc... I don't agree with much of rock-and-roll's argumentation and goals as rock-and-roll's messaging is pretty much outright opposed to Christianity and Christianity's moral values and love for God, but the connection between rebellion against "the man" and rock-and-roll is very well established.

 

[Gary K]

And that is even more fascinating when you figure that Clapton is still most likely a leftist. Does anyone thing he is a conservative?

I don't know how much you know about the roots of rock-and-roll but here's a video of some of the early stars that crossed over from folk music and made big names in rock-and-roll in the 60's and 70's.

 

[Trump Gurl]

Its all before my time. I take your word for it.