Results for “disillusionment with progress”

Songs

Freddie's Dead

Curtis Mayfield

A eulogy that refuses to sentimentalize its subject, using the death of a small-time hustler named Freddie as a blunt instrument…

addiction and exploitation urban poverty complicity and blame

Both Sides Now

Joni Mitchell

A three-part meditation in which the speaker sets a naive, image-drunk way of seeing against a disenchanted one, then refuses to…

disillusionment the limits of knowledge aging and changed perception

My Little Town (with Art Garfunkel)

Paul Simon

A reunion single from Simon and Garfunkel that reads as a bitter anti-nostalgia song, dismantling the idea of small-town…

small-town disillusionment loss of faith suppressed violence

Paradise

John Prine

Prine elegizes a real Kentucky town erased by strip mining, using a child's plea to his father as the frame for a broader story…

environmental destruction loss of home/place industrial 'progress' vs. nature

Place to Be

Nick Drake

A brief autobiographical arc compressed into a handful of couplets, tracing a movement from innocence through disillusionment to…

loss of innocence depression and fatigue dependency on another

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

Roberta Flack

A slow, hymn-like ballad that traces one relationship's progress through three ascending intimacies: first sight, first kiss,…

awakening love cosmic/natural imagery as emotional scale vulnerability and surrender