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Originally Posted by Steven L. Akins
You are right, of course, that is where the similarity ends.
Haggard's song seems to speak of predestination, of a resignation to inescapable fate; an awareness of an inherent personal flaw that the best of guidance could not steer him clear of.
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That's what hits me too, but not the person I was arguing with. The point can be greatly expanded on.
Maybe people here don't enjoy microanalyzing things, but the you know who's are famous for it, and I think it's why they usually win. They pay attention to things, and come to understand them better than they understand themselves, perhaps, which allows remarkable feats of mimicry, such as "Tomorrow Belongs to Me," which is Germaner than Germans could do, and perfectly plausible as a nationalist hym - but written by two queer jews.
But let's not depart from the Haggard song.
I think one of the most striking things about it is what he in my view rather pointedly, rather sycopatedly, does
not say. Stuff he almost surely would say if this song were written in 2012 by a committee of song manufacturers.