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   American Dream

                   This CD was conceived and recorded in North America during the last  half of the G.W. Bush Era. The song 
themes range from excess and obsession to struggle, despair and disillusionment. Thank you George for giving us 
song writers something to write about other than "boring" old love songs.
                   In the 60's and 70's people talked about Love and Peace, Ecological awareness. In the 80's people decided 
that was silly and naive so went in pursuit of money and greed. A quote from the movie Wall Street "greed is good" 
sums up that era along with the vanity fashions and aerobics craze. Today in the first part of the 21st century the 
attitude "greed is good" still seems to be the popular mantra. Today the world is also experiencing a lot of war, 
violence and on a course to making the planet uninhabitable.
                  "American Dream" is about the vision of the 60's and 70's and how it pertains to today's world. The title 
"American Dream" has to do with the dream of world peace which in the 60's and 70's was the goal of the American 
peace movement. At that time the focus was on ending the Vietnam war. Now I know the dream of world peace is not 
just an American dream, but the influence that the USA had and still does have in the world community today makes 
this of vital importance to the people and law makers. North America can make an impact like no other nation can.
                  I was born in 1961 and grew up hearing the slogans of the "young generation" how we were going to change 
the world, and I believed it. I find it ironic that the generation( not just the American ones) that was so confident in 
bringing about world peace is now the generation that is waging war.
                  So I think it's time to protest the Pentagon, put flowers in the end of gun barrels, be silly and naïve again. 
For if we don't the "War Mongering Planet Haters" will continue to destroy this "American Dream". As in the Chicago 
song "Dialogue Part II" "we can change the world now, we can make it happen yea, yea, yea!"

                                                                                                                                                              Chip Symonds   July 2007