There are people who like Billy Bragg, and then there are people who haven't listened to him properly yet... Mind you, this goes for a lot of music. I'm linking here to a live version of this track, because it seems a little more valid. Tank Park Salute is one of a number of outstanding tracks in the album Don't Try This At Home. I knew that it was a heartfelt song, but I've just been reading that it is about his own father, who died when Billy Bragg was 18.
I find myself wondering, when I hear lines like these, what would it feel like to have something like this written for me? What would it feel like to write lines like:
Kiss me goodnight and say my prayers
Leave the light on at the top of the stairs
Tell me the names of the stars up in the sky
A tree taps on the window pane
That feeling smothers me again
Daddy is it true that we all have to die
Leave the light on at the top of the stairs
Tell me the names of the stars up in the sky
A tree taps on the window pane
That feeling smothers me again
Daddy is it true that we all have to die
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