Instant Night

The lyrics of 'Instant Night' are insinuating and allusive, not topical - It's only a political song in the way that Dylan's 'A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall' or Public Enemy's 'Fight The Power' are political songs. People call them 'protest songs,' but neither of those songs is as specific as people think. Go back and listen again; they're pretty abstract! They are more poetic than polemic. 'Instant Night' exists within that spectrum too