> Also been listening to 'Skull' (from Birmingham 1988),
> which seems to be part of Come In The Night, as opposed to
> a stand-alone song.
>
> Shouldn't this be Jim's political song, instead of
> Braver?
>
> Very powerful title, and some very current & relevant
> lyrics:
>
> 'How can you bury a nation of fears?'
>
> 'Where you gonna hide your (self), through the long years
> of dying?'
>
> 'Give (us) a tombstone, and a wreath for all (our) tears'
>
> With the (tweaks) it could almost be a pop against old
> George Dubbya?
>
> Would love to see Jim expand and develop this; the title
> is perfect.
>
This is in "The Dream Engine", and in that play (calling the musical a play to differentiate story from song), Jim does address this but I explain it because it is heavy with symbolism which was very popular at that time of our political development as a music driven political society, and it could apply to any and all of our generations from then and including now. He's been expanding and developing it in the larger thematic sense of it, but the song itself was too esoteric so he has opted for more understandable forms. We hear derivatives of it in other works.
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