70s Scenario

This song is an obscure Hall and Oates song off their album War Babies. It's one of the albums I really don't like, however. As a rabid H&O fan, I have listened to most of their albums numerous times, but I think I literally only listened to "War Babies" twice. Seeing that I have a new found respect for Todd Rundgren, I may need to pull this out now that I'm older and wiser. He produced the album and a lot of the music is his coupled with Daryl's.

This song hits my heart in a particular way (and even did the first time I heard the album). Many of Daryl's songs do that for me, but these lyrics mean a lot to me right now. I don't know what he "meant" by 70s Scenario, but I did look up the definition of scenario to see if I could grasp some sort of context.

A scenario is a synthetic description of an event or series of actions and events.

So knowing that he was in NYC at the time with a million things going on around him when composing this song, it makes sense. The music itself is pulsating in a way, it hits some minor keys, leaves you lingering. A lot like NYC.

Todd also has Daryl's voice with more reverb on this song verses many of the other songs on the album. There's a picture that gets created, not only out of the music, but even in how Daryl sings, and last, in the production of it. I love it when a 3 minute song can create such a visual image.

You can interchange the year (that he's singing about) if you'd like.. it sill makes sense for me today. If you'd like to hear the song, feel free to come to my MySpace, as of today, it's up. OR, you can go to this page and click on the War Babies album to find the track.

In bed sittin' and reading by the T. V. light
Stay away from the window, thunder and lighting.
And the rain, the rain keeps fallin' down
That's something that hasn't changed.
Yeah, there's something inside me, it's quiet when it rains.

At the end of the rainbow, there ain't no pot of gold
And the light in the morning, hardly ever shows
Ain't no easy living, everybody knows
And it's all around us........
70's Scenario

She called me a prisoner, in a prison of the mass;
She said acceptance from the future, is freedom from the past.
And I laugh, and say "that's alright"
Things really ain't that tough.
As long as I'm still able, to turn the T.V. off.

At the end of the rainbow, there ain't no pot of gold
And the light in the morning, hardly ever shows
Ain't no reason living, everybody knows
And it's all around us........
70's Scenario

At the end of the rainbow, there ain't no pot of gold
And the light in the morning, hardly ever shows
Ain't no reason living, everybody knows
And it's all around us........
70's Scenario