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Don't give up

How do you understand this song?
Is it a love song between two lovers ? Or just a hymn (to those who emigrated) to America?
  

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[nq:1]How do you understand this song? Is it a love song between two lovers ? [/nq] Never heard it URL please.

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[nq:1]How do you understand this song? Is it a love song between two lovers ? Or just a hymn (to those who emigrated) to America?[/nq]
Never heard it URL please.

Dave Fawthrop In Case of Emergency Store the word "ICE" in your mobile phone address book, and against it enter the number of the person you would want to be contacted "In Case of Emergency".
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[nq:2]How do you understand this song? Is it a love song between two lovers ? Or just a hymn (to those who emigrated) to America?[/nq]
[nq:1]Never heard it URL please.[/nq]
Here you are:
http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=247D3Z8QQI43Y0POC7F2FK7NR5
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[nq:1]How do you understand this song? Is it a love song between two lovers ? Or just a hymn (to those who emigrated) to America?[/nq]
Eh. It's got nothing to do with America.
Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush are British.
I heard it first when I was unemployed so the words "For every job so many men" were particularly poignant so I have always interpreted it as a song about a man who is dow
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[nq:2]who emigrated) to America? Never heard it URL please.[/nq]
[nq:1]Here you are: http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=247D3Z8QQI43Y0POC7F2FK7NR5[/nq]
It's no longer there.
Regards, Einde O'Callaghan
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[nq:2]Here you are: http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=247D3Z8QQI43Y0POC7F2FK7NR5[/nq]
[nq:1]It's no longer there.[/nq]
Are you sure?
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[nq:2]It's no longer there.[/nq]
[nq:1]Are you sure?[/nq]
When I clicked last time I got an expiry notice, but this time it worked.

Regards, einde O'callaghan
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[nq:2]How do you understand this song? Is it a love song between two lovers ? Or just a hymn (to those who emigrated) to America?[/nq]
[nq:1]Eh. It's got nothing to do with America. Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush are British. I heard it first when ... man who is downhearted at losing his job or his business failing, perhaps during a recession, and his wife/lover's response.[/nq]
That's how I
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[nq:1]How do you understand this song?[/nq]
I don't, I turn it off like all these pseudo-romantic duos that bore the pants of anyone with sense.
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[nq:2]Eh. It's got nothing to do with America. Peter Gabriel ... business failing, perhaps during a recession, and his wife/lover's response.[/nq]
[nq:1]That's how I interpreted the song as well. But a friend of mine has always pretended it had something to do with America. Beautiful song anyhow.[/nq]
From

'MUSICIAN: Tell me about your duet with Kate Bush on "Don't Give Up".
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John of Aix a exprimé avec précision :
[nq:2]How do you understand this song?[/nq]
[nq:1]I don't, I turn it off like all these pseudo-romantic duos that bore the pants of anyone with sense.[/nq]
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