Buddy Song: McCain’s Limbo dance, cont.

Greil Marcus in the New Yorker: “When it started, I thought, This isn’t half bad. I like ‘halfway to the stars’ instead of ‘all the way.’ But”–he read the line about the storm–” ‘touch the legacy that is ours’? You just can’t use ‘legacy’ in a song. It’s like a roadblock.”