Glancing Very Briefly At The Songs I Write: They're All In Love

["Kevin O'Neal" <kevinandt@surfglobal.net>]

>Subject: Glancing Very Briefly At The Songs I Write: They're All In Love
>From: Deliphus01@aol.com
>
>They're All In Love (1975)
>
>"Where do you walk on sunny times
>When the rivers gleam and the buildings shine
>How do you feel goin' up hallowed halls
>And the summer clothes brighten gloomy halls"

Pete's ever increasing disillusionment with being a performer?
Disillusionment with touring?
Hollowed halls being those at venues?
Don't like the repeating "halls" in the verses.

>"And they're all in love
>And they're all in love"

The 1970's!  The love decade!  Free wheelin' sex and all!  We're not pissed
anymore.

>"Hey, goodbye all you punks
>Stay young and stay high

Loved this line since the first time I heard it.  You could call it a
religion........A Way Of Life.
Is this Pete coming to grips with his famous line "Hope I die before I get
old" ?

>Hand me my checkbook
>And I'll crawl out to die"

"The song was about what the band has become.  It was about money, and law
courts, about lawyers and accountants.  Those things had never mattered and
then the band had a back-log of tax problems and unpaid royalties.  We had
to deal with it.  I really felt like crawling off and dying."  PT

Kevin in VT