This song is about how society is changing men for the worse. I've seen it numerous times on VH1 Classics. General CommentThis is a powerful song, and I highly recommend you see the video. See also "It's different for girls" and "One to one", among others. This is a theme running through Joe Jackson's work - that we are all human beings, and we should try to get along as such, not put any other characteristic first. That's the real message - artificial, arbitrary divisions and categorisation (like man / woman, gay / bi / straight, black / white) will kill us all. But at the end, the sting in the tail comes - "Kill all the blacks, kill all the reds, and if it's war between the sexes then there'll be no people left". Then you have the disapproving-sounding second verse. Hence the "us and them" and the "girls that wore pink, boys that wore blue" in the first verse. The whole song is ironic - it is sung from the point of view of a super-straight, conservative man, at least initially. He's simply saying that traditional roles are breaking down. I think mellisande is right about what the song is actually about - Joe isn't saying that society is changing for the worse, not exactly. So Joe was basically taking the piss by dedicating this song to the Wallabies. They can get close to one another, touch, hug (after scoring tries/goals). All the gays are macho.") It has often been said that rugby (and other team-based contact sports) are an outlet for the homosexual feelings of those macho types who absolutely cannot bear to even consider that they might have homosexual leanings. The song is about gender ambiguities ("See the nice boys. Joe was playing in Sydney at the time and the Wallabies had just won an important match. General CommentI can offer another explanation for the rugby reference on the Live album. You can wear the uniform and I could play along Then if you're tall and handsome and strong You don't want to sound dumb, don't want to offend
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