Ideas behind songs...

Sweet home Alabama is the song which I will talk about...

It's about homeward...


Sweet home Alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet Home Alabama
Lord, I'm coming home to you


But it isn't only about it... It also go against to Neil young, where we can see in 
a verse:


Well I heard mister Young sing about her
Well, I heard ole Neil put her down
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
A Southern man don't need him around anyhow

It talks about it because in two songs which where made by Neil Young, Southern Man in 1970 then, Alabama, in 1972, critizising the low conditions of the black people who where working in South America...


Well I heard mister Young sing about her
Well, I heard ole Neil put her down
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
A Southern man don't need him around anyhow


I think that's interesting because it shows how the people feel attacked by a foreigner critizing their live style... Which is the most normal thing in the world...


Then, in another verse where we can se how they make support to the ideas from the governor George Wallace, who was involved with the segregationism (Lynyrd Skynyrd denied it all the time, it can be a false verse which deal with irony...)


In Birmingham they love the governor
Now we all did what we could do
Now Watergate does not bother me
Does your conscience bother you?
Tell the truth


There are a lot songs which hide another meaning, like Stairway To Heaven, Simpaty for the devil or Lucy in the sky with Diamonds... I think we won't be able to know their meaning but I think that's the grace of this songs, which will be for ever the best songs which we listened...