So This Is Political?

I only have one of their albums, and technically (of course) it's not an album, it's a CD but I'm such a fossil I still package music in obsolete units of measure because it's inconceivable to me that you'd ever consider buying it like hamburger, but, rather than by the pound, by the download. 

I came from an era where people my age showed their devotion to music and musicians by naming their children, 'Dylan' and such. And the generation that followed us named theirs for fruits and vegetables (is the shoe a little tight, Gwyneth and Chris?)

The band is Flogging Molly and aside from the same biology that places us in the same genus and species, I have little in common with anyone within the band. They are considered an Irish and/or Celtic Band which does NOT mean Kevin Garnett enjoys them, but helps build the box we can put the label on, to help us not think about what an artist is or what they do-instead we can say 'do you like So-and-So?'

And then depending on the answer, we can then say, 'You really should try this guy/these people/that ringtone; it'll remind you so much of So-and-So.' One of those all 'ducks are birds but not all birds are ducks' if we can't be profound, let's be profane moments we cherish so much.

"Well it breaks my heart to see you this way.

The beauty in life, where's it gone?

And somebody told me, you were doing okay.

Somehow, I guess they were wrong."

Perhaps they're singing about a past lover, but, and I've listened to this song maybe three hundred kajillion times over the years but never really heard it until late yesterday driving on Water Street through what was once downtown Norwich, I think that they're singing about where I live.
-bill kenny