Keep On...

In the early eighties, Neil Young expressed sympathy for Ronald Reagan's politics. Although he has been known to be unpredictable, Young's fans were nonetheless caught off guard.

As if to set the record straight, "The Loner" released Rockin' In The Free World in 1989, a sardonic essay of America which seems to be misinterpreted about as often as Springsteen's Born In The USA.

It became the theme for the fall of the Berlin Wall, resistance to the emerging New World Order and an encore performance at the musicians' tribute to the victims of the WTC attacks with Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder.

The "Granddaddy of Grunge" takes a few stabs at the elder Bush with the line, "A kinder, gentler machine gun hand." and perhaps offers foresight to the potential for terrorist attacks in the first stanza with "There's a warnin' sign on the road ahead; There's a lot of people sayin' we'd be better off dead." As an accomplished song writer, Young then covers his tracks with the eulogic chorus for the American way, Keep On Rockin' In The Free World.