New song calls for hope amid ‘polarization,’ ‘desperation’.
“There’s somethin’ happenin’ here.”
That’s the opening line to the 1967 monster hit from the legendary rock band Buffalo Springfield, titled “For What It’s Worth.”
Today, Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Famer Richie Furay, a veteran of Buffalo Springfield, Poco and other successful bands, has released a new song he describes as a “wake-up call” to America.
In “Don’t Tread on Me,” he urges hope amid the “polarization” and “desperation” he sees engulfing the United States.
In an interview with WND, Furay, who has been a pastor for three decades at Calvary Chapel in Broomfield, Colorado, said he sees the “polarization of the right and left, just tearing us apart.”
He said the lyrics just started to “come to mind,” and he realized he was trying to tell the story of the “sadness, disappointment, anger, that so many feel over the progressive ideology in this great nation.”
The lyrics are unabashedly patriotic.
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