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Jun 17, 2010
This song expresses the sentiments of a people who know in their hearts that our television-centered consumerist society has taken us so far away from any meaningful existence, and has put financial control, and therefore the power to control the information to which we're exposed in the hands of a very few who, with so much control, can keep us subservient to them indefinitely. At his core, I believe John Mayer is lamenting the fact that this is indeed, the sentiment, especially since we now hear John's voice on a cd entitled "Yes We Can: Voices of a Grassroots Movement", which is all about the election ofpresident Obama. This leads me to believe he's much more optimistic about these things than this song would suggest.