82. (iPod Challenge) About Those Thousand Points of Light

This song was a real eye-opener for me upon its release. I’d grown up with a certain set of political views that were pretty well handed down to me and I didn’t really think much about them. They simply were. I voted with most of my family and didn’t listen to anything that didn’t fit into my hereditary worldview.

This song changed that. It opened my ears and my eyes. It has to qualify as one of the angriest and most graphic protest songs every put on wax. Lyrics like

I see a woman in the night...