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Growin up in little pink houses3/1/2023 ![]() The song - the song actually was that line. Sometimes you really need songs like this. It was the middle of winter, and it really spoke to me. When I first started listening to the song, I think I was kind of depressed. It's just so much about mortality and things that aren't necessarily ever going to get better. I have to say, you know, I just wasn't prepared for this song that opens the new CD. ![]() GROSS: John Mellencamp, welcome to FRESH AIR. That's when life is short even in its longest days. Sometimes you get sick, and you don't get better. I was too busy raising up Cain.īut nothing lasts forever. I walked like a hero into the setting sun. My vision was true, and my heart was too. JOHN MELLENCAMP (Singer/Songwriter): (Singing) Seems like once upon a time ago, I was where I was supposed to be. Mellencamp is going to perform some old and new songs for us, but let's start with the opening track of his new CD. New York Times music critic John Pareles wrote: It's an album present like a deathbed testament, bleak, solitary, bluesy and unbowed. Mellencamp has a new CD called "Life, Death, Love and Freedom," which has some great songs about mortality. At the Obama inaugural celebration at the Lincoln Memorial, Mellencamp sang his song, "Pink Houses," the one with the refrain, ain't that America for you and me. You probably know my guest, John Mellencamp, for his hits from the '80s like "Jack and Diane" and "Small Town," and of course for his song, "This is Our Country," that first became famous when it was used in a Chevrolet ad.ĭemocratic and Republican candidates have used his songs in their campaigns.
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