This story also raises the possibility that the Village People song "In the Navy" - which, rather disgustingly, is also taken as a gay anthem; you know, all those sweaty men together on a ship, ho ho ho - is simply the patriotic song that the lyrics suggest it to be, without a hidden meaning. Maybe even about urging black men to join the Navy (or any other branch of the military) as a way of getting out of the ghetto and improving their lives.

The Woke Pig, now in retreat, has spread far and wide many interpretations of popular art that attempt to reduce the beauty and meaningfulness of many rock and soul songs - even those that evoke the divine - to their petty little Woke agenda. For example, Pete Townshend of The Who in the early 1980s released a number of solo songs, including "A Little Is Enough" and "The Sea Refuses No River", wherein the lyrics are to me pretty clearly the words of a sinner seeking redemption from the Lord. I've seen the Woke Pig declare both of those songs to be gay anthems as well. And the Hollies' "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" - a religious rock song if ever there was - is in fact, I have been told, about the civil rights struggle (what a reduction in meaning; like trying to squeeze a Rembrandt into a thumbnail).

When the Woke Pig can't twist the meaning of a song, as with Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky", they attempt to ridicule those who find meaning in it. An article on "Spirit in the Sky" in Rolling Stone some years back sneeringly talked of how Greenbaum, not himself a Christian, put one over on the unenlightened idiots by successfully exploiting their silly beliefs to get a hit record. (Actually, of course, it's the other way around: the Lord God put one over on Greenbaum by using him to throw a little God onto the pop charts; Greenbaum's intent mattering not at all.)

It's time to reclaim the popular arts. Forget everything you think you know about the meaning of song lyrics.