Neil Finn Of Crowded House Discusses His Song “Don’t Dream It’s Over” And How It Resonates Today

I’ve always loved this song

But listening to it recently, with our Republic under siege, I began to take comfort from its lyrics, and wondered if its composer meant it to have that level of meaning when he wrote it in the mid-1980s.

Thankfully, others have been wondering the same thing and one of them discussed it with Neil in a recent podcast, which I’ve edited to focus on that question: