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| Bruce Springsteen – Dancing In The Dark Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Pete Yorn does a great cover of this song that I think captures the "feel" even better than the original. It's extremely slow, just an acoustic guitar, piano, and harmonica. Really gets at the desparation the character must be feeling. The song has always reminded me of Angel From Montgomery "If Dreams were lightning and thunder desire, this old house would have burned down a long time ago. To believe in this living is just a hard way to go" |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Downbound Train Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"Then I heard that long whistle whine. And I dropped to my knees, hung my head, and cried" could be a Johnny Cash reference to Folsom Prison Blues :"When i hear that whistle blowin I hang my head and cry." |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Downbound Train Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"Then I heard that long whistle whine. And I dropped to my knees, hung my head, and cried" could be a Johnny Cash reference to Folsom Prison Blues :"When i hear that whistle blowin I hang my head and cry." |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Further On (Up the Road) Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I love genesin2000's post, "This is clearly a song about gold fever." haha what? it might be about that, but it's definitely not clear. i'd say considering springsteen's writing style it's pretty possible the "desert" is a metaphorical one, meaning he's been lost in a lonely no-man's land due to an unresolved conflict. I tend to think the song is about revenge. The guy in the song is a badass. He wears a dead man's suit, a smiling skull ring, and sings songs to keep his revenge-obsessed mind calmed. He's counting on meeting whoever wronged him further on up the road. If it was written about September 11th like most of the rest of the album, it could be about a widowed man's thirst for revenge on those who took his wife. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Downbound Train Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I used to think the whistle was from a factory and symbolized the demands of blue collar work, but now i'm not so sure. it makes more sense that it's the same whistle from the train in the earlier verse.
either way, this song is visually assaulting. the verse where he runs through the woods to the house he shared with her and drops to his knees from the pain of the heartbreak....i can picture every single leave he crunches over, his silouette as he weaves frantically through the trees, the modest lower-class house in the clearing, the creaky wood floor he falls onto....the man's in a class of his own as a writer. |
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| Patrick Park – Thunderbolt Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Think the post above me reads a little too far into things.
I think it talks about a girl that's a bit of a loose cannon. She's bitter, cold, and leaves others shut out. When her lovers do find out her secrets and her thoughts, they find out too late, her relationships are always doomed (secrets that wait on corners in the dark to sting, nothing to hold, etc)
"God knows it gets so hard" to keep a relationship going when one party won't share anything with the other. The relationship has holes. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – The Fuse Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Keeping in mind that the album was written as a response to the events of September 11th, this song has always presented a chilling image for me. Even without the lyrics, It always makes me think of the ghost of a dead husand returning to his bedroom and making love to his wife one last time. |
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| Hinder – Lips of an Angel Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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i love how you've all explained the meaning of this song and felt like hot shit for it. like you've deciphered some ancient code. the song is so obvious it makes me want to vomit, as does hinder in general. they are everything that is wrong with rock and roll today. wake up fools. pick up a radiohead or wilco record. join the enlightened few. |
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| Ryan Adams – Nuclear Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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First of all, the lyrics are incorrect. It's "They combed the beach and the remains"
Ryan Adams has said himself that this song is about change. It's about meeting somone incredibly intense and it changes your own personality as a result, so much so that there is nothing left of your old self. You go "nuclear". |
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