In “Work It Out” by Undercover, the first song on the latest edition of my Cephas Hour podcast, vocalist Sim Wilson sings:
And the dolphins sing the dolphin song
At 5 a.m. at 20th street when the boats come in
For the record, 20th Street is in the Southern California oceanfront city of San Pedro, which has an active commercial fishing presence.
Later in the show, during the song “Violent Blue” by Chagall Guevara, vocalist Steve Taylor sings:
Hey, are you in there?
Or don’t you recall
When the perfume of belief was all we needed
It was all we needed
To set our sightsSo when did you throw out
The rest of the world
Deaf from the din of your self-righteous babble?
I think you’ve been blinded
By your own light
These lyrics, now decades old, speak afresh in light of recent political events. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in an interview by Tucker Carlson first aired on August 26, 2024, spoke of the
