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ADG:
The lyric about needing a job and the govt. giving Obamacare instead, was a comment on how the country was in a dire recession with unemployment through the roof...but instead of jobs the govt. spent 2009 focused on creating ObamaCare.
As for why I would write the lyric since I'm self-employed, it's a generalized statement.
Same way the Rolling Stones wrote "Gimme Shelter" even though they aren't from the U.S. and weren't involved in the Vietnam War as soldiers. Or Styxx wrote "Blue Collar Man" even though they were not blue collar men.
I was reaching out to a broader audience.
The guitar part is all in open G by the way. And the cadence of the rhythm is similar to "Call Me The Breeze" I think in retrospect. But it's not the same riff at all.
Just like "Call Me The Breeze" has the riff that sounds a lot like The Allman Brothers "One Way Out".
But no, the entire song was an exercise in open tuning. The guitar was actually inspired by The Rolling Stones "Ventilator Blues", even though it doesn't sound like it.
As for your thoughts on Libertarianism...well, you already know how misinformed I think you are. So that point is moot.
I had some things to say in the lyrics, and feel pretty good about the song.
It's all subjective anyway, so if you don't like it or the message in the song...that's cool.
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