for all Ive ever wanted - Ive still got my little pink house, and someone who loves me. Little Pink Houses Video: There's a black man, with a black cat. And that’s sort of what ‘Pink Houses’ is about. For everywhere Ive been, for all Ive got. I don’t mean to get political, but I do get wound up about these kinds of things because so many people see it as it’s really not.
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I’m not condoning what Russia did, but that’s bullshit! There’s so many things we’ve done, and then we expect them to apologize when we had a spy plane beside the plane that got shot down! Let’s see the deal as it really was! And the majority of the public is going to fall right in line with the way Reagan wants them to think. We made 50 - get em while theyre fresh Includes unlimited streaming of Little Pink Houses via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3. It’s like the Russians shooting down that plane, and we want them to apologize. It’s not rah, rah, rah America at all, and I think it puts America in its place.
The American dream has pretty much proven itself as not working anymore.” John Mellencamp (223) “It’s saying the American Dream and all that shit is propaganda. Great writing with insightful lyrics and. This one has been misconstrued over the years because of the chorus – it sounds very rah-rah. Recorded and released in 1983 on John Mellencamps album Uh-Huh this has become my all time favorite song by him. So I went with that positive route when I wrote this song. Little Pink Houses Theres a black man with a black cat Livin in a black neighborhood Hes got an interstate runnin through his front yard You know he.
I thought, “Wow, is this what life can lead to? Watching the fucking cars go by on the interstate?” Then I imagined he wasn’t isolated, but he was happy. He was sitting on his front lawn in front of a pink house in one of those shitty, cheap lawn chairs. “I was driving through Indianapolis on Interstate 65 and I saw a black man holding either a dog or a cat.