The song’s chorus answers the questions that I ask in the verses. The first verse talks about the difficult obstacles life can present to someone on a personal and individual level, while the second verse is about the tragic events that can define entire generations. I wondered (without wishing for them) if I had the inner strength to handle such things. I came to the realization that my life at that point had been, for the most part, free of these sorts of life-altering challenges. The depth of sadness that my friend and his family were experiencing on that day made me think about how we are, at times, measured by our ability to handle pain, sadness, tragedy and adversity. It is the band’s most popular and most successful song and is considered to be one of the defining songs of the third wave ska movement.Ībout a year before my band, The Mighty Mighty BossToneS, released the album Let’s Face It, I was at the funeral of a close friend’s brother. The song was released as a single months later on Janupreceding the release of their fifth studio album, Let’s Face It in March. Local Boston band The Mighty Mighty BossToneS gave this song to be part of the follow-up CD release Safe And Sound: A Benefit In Response To The Brookline Clinic Violence.
THE MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES THE IMPRESSION THAT I GET SERIES
In February 1995, a series of benefit concerts to support safe access to health care for women and children were held in Boston, MA, raising over $38,000. Meaning he hasnt been in a situation that he has been so low or rock bottom to do sexual favors for something he is.
Barrett came up with the lyric after attending a funeral for the brother of a.
On December 30, 1994, two women, Shannon Lowney and Lee Ann Nichols, were murdered and five others were wounded at two women’s health care clinics in Brookline, MA. This was written by Bosstones lead singer Dicky Barrett bass player Joe Gittleman.