I had thought a song honoring the late President Ronald Wilson Reagan would be appropriate for today, but there are not many positive songs about Reagan (and, no, nothing by Reagan Youth would fit the bill). But there are songs about President Reagan’s most important legacy: the fall of Communism. Reagan’s policies directly contributed to the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the spread of freedom throughout the former Soviet bloc. One of the first pop songs about this transformation — the world waking up from history — was “Right Here, Right Now” by Jesus Jones, a band I liked quite a bit in the early 1990s. It seems a fitting choice for the Gipper.
A woman on the radio talked about revolution
when it’s already passed her by
Bob Dylan didn’t have this to sing about you
you know it feels good to be alive
I was alive and I waited, waited
I was alive and I waited for this
Right here, right now
there is no other place I want to be
Right here, right now
watching the world wake up from history
I saw the decade in, when it seemed
the world could change at the blink of an eye
And if anything
then there’s your sign… of the times
I was alive and I waited, waited
I was alive and I waited for this
Right here, right now
I was alive and I waited, waited
I was alive and I waited for this
Right here, right now
there is no other place I want to be
Right here, right now
watching the world wake up from history
Right here, right now
there is no other place I want to be
Right here, right now
watching the world wake up…
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