"What force on earth could be weaker than the feeble strength of one? But the union makes us strong". It's a lyric from "Solidarity Forever" from The Little Red Songbook. It's taking a popular catchphrase from the radical left and applying it to his personal life.
"it started off as purely fiction. A friend of mine wrote a film script and asked me to write a song for it. It was a script about various things, and it had a newspaper story to it. But I suddenly had this image of an activist, someone involved in politics, who passed out pamphlets on street corners and suddenly one day cracked and started churning out these pamphlets about his personal life."
@shmike1984 No way it was purely that, he was in Propagandhi, and they are all very political. He was probably a pamphleteer at least once in his life and noticed how people ignore you so often...
Shit no one writes like John K. Sampson
TheMilk2go 1 week ago
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BOYthatROX 7 months ago
@Nightmary83
Thanks for the info, that's really cool!
TFOTfan36 11 months ago
what a great song.
reteipdevries 1 year ago
"Oh what force on earth could be weaker than the feeble strength of one" The Weakerthans, am I seeing a connection here?
TFOTfan36 1 year ago
@TFOTfan36
"What force on earth could be weaker than the feeble strength of one? But the union makes us strong". It's a lyric from "Solidarity Forever" from The Little Red Songbook. It's taking a popular catchphrase from the radical left and applying it to his personal life.
Nightmary83 11 months ago
this song makes me cry. i love it.
cbandmw 1 year ago
favorite band.
and rightfully so.
clcsqueejy04 1 year ago 5
Everything about this song is beautiful, from the guitar work and amazing lyrics.
PunksInVegas 2 years ago
Beautiful writing, I'm still amazed how he managed to mingle political and sentimental, get away with it and ...
Thanks Shmike for the behind the scene comment.
peuimporte 2 years ago 7
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cbandmw 2 years ago
...ooooooooh i love this one, too:)!!! 8-)!!!
jirihozpodebrad23 2 years ago
Yeah this is real amazing.
jboogie2192 2 years ago
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coverswhoo 2 years ago
the hands part is my fave too.
amesly 2 years ago
awesome song!!
awonderfulillusion 2 years ago
"it started off as purely fiction. A friend of mine wrote a film script and asked me to write a song for it. It was a script about various things, and it had a newspaper story to it. But I suddenly had this image of an activist, someone involved in politics, who passed out pamphlets on street corners and suddenly one day cracked and started churning out these pamphlets about his personal life."
shmike1984 2 years ago 23
@shmike1984 No way it was purely that, he was in Propagandhi, and they are all very political. He was probably a pamphleteer at least once in his life and noticed how people ignore you so often...
ChewyDaDon 1 year ago
@shmike1984 I read this too, had to look up what this was all about. Great concept.
EamonJgod 1 year ago
great song
lacasse91 2 years ago 2