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| Depeche Mode – Something To Do Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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@ RDTX14. Indeed. The gentleman is saying to the lady, "if I were you, I'd get all fancied up and go have some fun." I don't know about TEEN angst,though. The line about working too hard for too little makes me think that the couple are adults. Young adults, perhaps, but adults. |
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| The Tubes – Piece by Piece Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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The singer is in love with a woman who's been hurt in relationships countless times, and he wants to show her what it is to feel appreciated and cared for and be truly loved |
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| The Tubes – Talk to Ya Later Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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It's a breakup song, pure and simple. It's a breakup song from a fellow who wants to break up with this woman, and the lady is having none of it and won't take the hint. |
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| Depeche Mode – Something To Do Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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No, it's about a fellow asking a lady for a date, and the lady has a job (No,she isn't a prossie) and her dress has grease stains in it from getting it caught in the car door on her way to/from work |
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| Depeche Mode – Something To Do Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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@[raid357:26848] It's NOT about SEX, for crying in Manhattan! It's about a young gentleman asking a young lady for A DATE. Just a DATE! |
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| Danielle Dax – Here Come the Harvest Buns Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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Nothing to do with baked goods and everything to do with being preggers
Harvest BUNS - BUN in the oven (pregnancy)
BELLYFUL - Baby in utero; a mom-to-be's round figure
ROUND BUM-BUM, FLESH GUN-GUN - Self-explanatory!
SICK AS A PIG WHEN MORNING COMES - Morning sickness
A KNEE IN THE PLACE WHERE THE HERO ROAMED - Fetal movement in the mother. Baby is pushing his knee into the mother's uterus. The hero roaming refers to the one sperm that caused the pregnancy
CLIPPED IN ROWS, THEY'RE DOMINOES may refer to the nesting instinct pregnant moms get, where they tidy everything up and put things in order |
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| Godley & Creme – Snack Attack Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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An amply-contoured gentleman who has had a jaw-wiring procedure at the request of his family is frenzied at having to deny himself his favorite delicacies and delights |
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| Tears for Fears – Everybody Wants to Rule the World Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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I think it may be a song about becoming an adult. "Welcome to your life. There's no turning back." High school and college are behind you. You're a grownup now. "Nothing ever lasts forever." Youth is fleeting. Turn around, and you're a grownup. Everybody wants to rule the world = quest for status, wealth and power |
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| KISS – Deuce Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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@[force263:25725] Oh, come on. This tune is NOT about washing your "lowers" |
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| Michael Franks – Popsicle Toes Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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Popsicle toes = COLD FEET, which is slang for being nervous about something (usually sex or commitment). The narrator wants to help his sweetheart get over her nervousness about either having sex with him, committing to him, or both |
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| Foster the People – Pumped Up Kicks Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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This catchy tune is about a school shooting and the "troubled teen" who instigates it.
Robert is a young desperado who fancies himself a total bad@$$.
The "box of fun things" is the gun, ammo, maybe some girlie magazines and porno videos -- stuff parents would hide from a teen. the line "I don't even know what" means that the only items in the box that young Robert gives two spits about is the gun and the ammo.
"Daddy works a long day. He's coming home late, he's coming home late" -- Boo-hoo, poor ickle Bobby feels uncared-for.
The "surprise" that Daddo brings the boy is a beating or at the very least, a bawling-out, not a gift.
The dinner packed in ice could be a frozen microwavable entree, and it's the only thing young Robert knows how to fix, and Mom can't make dinner for some reason, (or maybe there is no mom) which torques his father off. Or it could be just fresh-frozen food that the boy didn't get a chance to prepare, so dinner isn't ready, which also angers Dad.
Pumped up kicks -- trendy footwear, used as a symbol for a high place in the social hierarchy
He's coming for you -- our boy is going to shoot everyone, so all the trendy popular teens better run for it or lose their lives |
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| Pink Floyd – Bike Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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@[ialmostbelieve:25012] Oooh, bop, FASHION! (Can't resist an opportunity to quote Bowie) |
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| The Who – A Legal Matter Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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@[LILJED:24519] It is NOT about divorce. That is a common misconception. The song is NOT about DIVORCE. It is about COMMITMENT PHOBIA or COMMITMENT RESISTANCE. The lady is having all these fantasies of a permanent partnership with this fellow who cannot or will not have a woman in his life as anything but occasional company |
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| Glen Campbell – Gentle On My Mind Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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@[dp10249455:22495] Then it's not memory. It's fantasy. Fantasy is something imagined. Memory is remembering something that was real or has happened. Big difference. My take is, the lady is indeed real, and this fellow cares for her in his way, but he is too fond of what it means to be single to settle down with her, so he'll always remember her and think of her while enjoying the singlehood he can't let go of. |
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| Don McLean – Castles In The Air Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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a beautiful tune about a man disenchanted with urban society and dreaming of green forests and a homespun bride -- but for YONKS, I thought it was John Denver who sang it |
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| Glen Campbell – Gentle On My Mind Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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The fellow in this song (probably a hippie or a hobo) enjoys the company of a certain lady, maybe even cares about her in his way, but has no interest in having her or any other woman in his life as anything other than occasional company. He does NOT want to be exclusive with this woman or anyone else (It's knowin' that your door is always open
And your path is free to walk = you are free to enjoy other people's company, as am I, and I like that). He does NOT want to live with anyone (It's not clingin' to the rocks and ivy Planted on their columns now that bind me = I don't want to share a home with anyone) and he definitely does NOT want to get married (And it's knowin' I'm not shackled by forgotten words and bonds
And the ink stains that have dried upon some lines = the words and bonds are the wedding vows, and the ink stains refer to the marriage license or marriage certificate, the "piece of paper").
So, this man likes this woman a lot, maybe even loves her, but he likes being single more, and she accepts that, and he likes that she accepts that |
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| Glen Campbell – Gentle On My Mind Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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The fellow in this song (probably a hippie or a hobo) enjoys the company of a certain lady, maybe even cares about her in his way, but has no interest in having her or any other woman in his life as anything other than occasional company. He does NOT want to be exclusive with this woman or anyone else (It's knowin' that your door is always open
And your path is free to walk = you are free to enjoy other people's company, as am I, and I like that). He does NOT want to live with anyone (It's not clingin' to the rocks and ivy Planted on their columns now that bind me = I don't want to share a home with anyone) and he definitely does NOT want to get married ( |
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| The Police – Can't Stand Losing You Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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I think that the fellow that Sir Gordon is singing about in this tune is supposed to be a teenage boy parting with his first sweetheart. Teens tend to experience such feelings more intensely than adults |
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| The Police – King Of Pain Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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I have to differ. This is NOT a song about DEPRESSION. It is a song about SORROW. Depression is an ailment, that's all. Just a health problem. Sorrow is a FEELING. If your sweetheart parts with you, or someone you care about dies, or your dog runs away, or you're jilted at the altar, what you are feeling is SORROW. Gordon is singing about SORROW |
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| The Hollies – Bus Stop Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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It's about a gentleman who meets a lady at a bus stop, and the lady becomes his FIANCEE, as opposed to girlfriend (the lines about "someday my name and hers are going to be the same" and "led me to a vow" made me think it was an engagement, rather than just a dating relationship |
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| Jefferson Airplane – Lather Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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To me, it's about someone who likes doing certain things or doing things a cetrtain way and doesn't want to give that up for what society deems appropriate for those in an adult age group. It's about someone resisting the confinement that age-group labels can bring. |
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| Gotye – State Of The Art Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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It's about an electronic organ that this nice couple, Frank and Mimi DeBacker, bought as a gift for their son Walter |
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| Pink Floyd – Bike Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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@[Oceanic:2506] Gaze Um, could be, but I'm thinking it's a real mouse, as in the rodent, like, a tween/young teen boy has a pet mouse (that he has yet to build a cage for) that he wants to show to his pigtailed sweetheart |
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| The Who – Boris The Spider Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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This weird little tune is indeed about arachnophobia and it reminds me of the scene in that episode of the Brady Bunch where the Bradys are in Hawaii and a tarantula crawls on top of Peter. |
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| Sparks – Perfume Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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What Shannon said. The gentleman in the song remembers his exes when he smells certain perfumes, so he's happy his new girlfriend/fiancee/wife/bride eschews the wearing of fragrances. BTW, the fragrances mentioned in this song all do really exist and can be purchased at any number of fine retailers. :-) |
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| The Smiths – Bigmouth Strikes Again Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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I always thought it was about an abusive partner puling the "I'm Sorry and I'll Never Do It Again" routine after abusing his partner. "I was only joking" and "I didn't mean it" and all the stuff abusive partners say. |
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| Carly Simon – That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I don't think the woman in the song is necessarily older. In fact, I think she's a young woman just out of college, just out of her teens, and she wants to choose a job field and have her own place and socialize with a lot of company before she does the wifey-mommy thing -- or maybe even bypass the wifey-mommy thing entirely and live her life as a single working woman. Remember, this song was written at a time where marriage and parenthood and "settling down" was what being an adult was all about and if one chose to skip that, then that person was considered an emotional infant. |
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| Frank Zappa – Goblin Girl Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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It's a little tune about SWORD SWALLOWING and a lady who's adept at swallowing sword, to the delight of her intimate consort |
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