Friday, March 1, 2024

Chip Away - Duff McKagan

Chip Away - Duff McKagan
3:21
Tenderness, 2019
Written by Duff McKagan

In an interview, Bob Dylan called this a song that has "profound meaning" for him, seeing it as a analogy for creative acts like Michelangelo revealing the statue inside the marble block.  The lyrics show anger at then-current (and ongoing, really) political trends, the "chip away" implying that progressives should fight steadily against this encroachment.  I could see Dylan singing this, actually.  "Talking heads are making dollars / It's like doing crack day after day / Dropping taxes on business ballers / It'll work this time, they say / Gotta rise up, gotta keep fighting."  I like when Duff calls MLK and FDR "badass motherfuckers" and says they would put a stop to all this.

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