Songs Can Tell The Story

Songs are running through my head, especially after hearing the Alice Cooper radio show. He plays some of the best old tunes, like this one from the Allman Brothers Band, which is straightforward, simple, yet moving.

"People can you feel it? Love is everywhere.
People can you hear it? Love is in the air.
We're in a revolution. Don't you know we're right.
Everyone is singing. Yeah! There'll be no one to fight.
People can you feel it? Love is everywhere."
--Dickey Betts, 1970

Cooper then proceeds to make fun of Dickie Betts' name, ironic considering his own.

Another song, in the same vein and amount of repetition, is "Jesus is Just Alright," by the Doobie Brothers:

"Jesus is just alright with me, Jesus is just alright, oh yeah
Jesus is just alright with me, Jesus is just alright

I don't care what they may say
I don't care what they may do
I don't care what they may say
Jesus is just alright, oh yeah
Jesus is just alright"

Why were pop rockers from the '70s not afraid to be open about God and love for the world? I don't know, but I hear very little of it now, unless it is labeled Christian rock. It's a shame that all aspects of the human condition are not considered worth singing about anymore.