No, it don't.
But then again, it's life's work.
And it's the means of accomplishing.
River of consciousness
Meaning added, no extra cost
Hard-wired for joy
And melancholy sometimes
It don't come easy
Until it does.
I don't know whether it can truly be appreciated easily now, nearly 30 years gone by and having lived with these 'types' of things for a long while now... what a huge media and humanitarian thing this was; one of the first times in my life when I remember those two things coming together quite so significantly and on that scale. I remember saving up my money for the album a long time in advance I was aware that it was coming out on such and such a date, and I got it the first day it came out, with a little help from parental transport. (No Amazon Preordering then (oooh was that product placement? I'll set an alert here. :). The awareness of the world, the interest in helping out with the skills they had that might raise up the most resources of helpfulness. And this song was just one of the many sterling interpretations that defining day.
By the song's poet writer, a demo for the piece: And then: At the Concert for Bangladesh, R. sings the song that G. wrote and gave to him