“ was sitting on his front lawn in front of a pink house in one of those shitty, cheap lawn chairs. home of the free, yeah Little pink houses for you and me, oh for you and me Well. Youll be belting out the lyrics by the end of the song as it has become a. I thought, ‘Wow, is this what life can lead to? Watching the fuckin’ cars go by on the interstate?,’” he told Rolling Stone in 2013. Lyrics Pink Houses by Avail: Theres a black man with a black catLiving in a black neighbourhoodHes got an interstate runnin through his front yardYou. The man dancing on the porch in Little Pink Houses, my Mom n her friend. So, I went with that positive route when I wrote this song.” He continued, “Then I imagined he wasn’t isolated, but he was happy. Lyrically, it was a straightforward approach. “There’s a black man with a black cat / Living in a black neighborhood / He’s got an interstate running’ through his front yard,” he depicts. “You know, he thinks, he’s got it so good / And there’s a woman in the kitchen cleaning up evening slop / And he looks at her and says, ‘Hey darling, I can remember when you could stop a clock.” how - how can it be that a love carved out of caring fashioned by fate could suffer so hard from the games played much too often but making mistakes is a part of life's imperfections born of the. John Mellencamp lyrics with translations: Wasted Days, Jack & Diane, little pink houses, Hurts so good, Cherry Bomb, R.O.C.K. This song fits perfect with the Slide Show I put together The United States is a beautiful place, with many attractions Here you see America's Land. Just by an observation of one man’s existence in the interstate of Indianapolis, John Mellencamp took a great issue with American life. In fact, the song wasn’t the way many think it is. “This one has been misconstrued over the years because of the chorus – it sounds very rah-rah. But it’s really an anti-American song,” he told Rolling Stone in the same interview. “The American dream had pretty much proven itself as not working anymore. It was another way for me to sneak something in.
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