| Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Just A Song Before I Go Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| bradburyesqu is right. I think it was the cab driver who bet him the fare for the song. | |
| Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Dark Star Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| It's about Still's looking at a relationship with a Dark-Skinned woman and the taboo that was in the South. Stills is a native of Louisiana and knows the prejudices of society. To be white and with a black intimately would be the biggest taboo of his upbringing but he thinks more of her than the taboo. | |
| Styx – Light Up Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The obvious play to marijuana is and was evident back then ('75). The middle section also deals with physical love: Every day's a holiday when your lips meet mine The music's keepin' time with our love You are here, and so am I The weather's quite divine So pass me round your wine, lovely one It's pretty blatant what the singer wants from his love here. |
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| Styx – Too Much Time On My Hands Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| remastered0 is right except I've always seen this guy as not a "genius." He's a guy who thinks he should have Huge Job Offers coming his way and instead is sitting on his Unemployment and everything is against him attitude. | |
| Eagles – One Day At A Time Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Walsh has a great line about not "planning to live this long." In an interview he speaks of all the good friends who didn't and it amazes him that he's still alive. | |
| Eagles – No More Cloudy Days Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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It is heavy Glenn Frey in fact it sounds almost like something from his "Strange Weather" era in the lat 80's. Nice tune with patented Eagles' harmonies and a pretty neat message about starting over in relationships. But the song almost seems unfinished to me. |
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| Don Henley – The Garden Of Allah Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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In his interviews Henley talks about the setting comes from a Hotel referred to as "The Garden of Allah" where the Fitzgerald's and Huxley's of the 1920's frolicked in a Bohemian lifestyle. The expert appearance lines I think are in reference to the media circus of the OJ Simpson trial. He does a backhanded jab at a pop group of the time known as "Collective Soul," when he points out it was "a lousy year for rock and roll." |
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| Don Henley – Little Tin God Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This is Henley' critique on TV Evangelism and the scandals of the late 80's. "Six Flags Over Jesus" refers to the PTL theme park that Jim Baker built in NC. "Little Dark Motel Rooms" refers to both Jim Baker's liasons with his secretary and Jimmy Swaggert's rendevous with New Orleans' Hookers. "The Cowboy's name was Jingo" could be a Reagan Reference or a reference to Rev. Jerry Fallwell of the Moral Majority. It's a scathing but very insightful crticism of TV and Evangelical church in that time. |
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| Don Henley – The End of the Innocence Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Actually I too see that it's obvious that the "Tired old King" as Reagan. This was written around 1988/9 and the Reagan era was closing as was "Iran-Contra." Oliver North lies to Congress and is convicted but his freed on a technicality. The America Henley knew from childhood was gone from Nixon to Reagan. | |
| Don Henley – The End of the Innocence Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Actually I see that "Tired old King" as Reagan. This was written around 1988/9 and the Reagan era was closing as was "Iran-Contra." Oliver North lies to Congress and is convicted but his freed on a technicality. The America Henley knew from childhood was gone from Nixon to Reagan. | |
| Don Henley – Damn It, Rose Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| That's it exactly. It's about the notion that if you would just hold off on that ultimate act of self-absorbtion things might clear up for you. | |
| Eagles – The Disco Strangler Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| It's also their commentary on the late 70's disco scene. They would frequent the clubs and see empty souls who were caught up in the night club/disco scene. Good song about the big city, late 70's life. | |
| Eagles – After The Thrill Is Gone Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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there's a double meaning here about a human relationship and the relationship of the artist with His muse. This album, "One of These Nights" is the beginning of their reflection on what stardom has wrought. |
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| Eagles – New Kid In Town Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I don't see the politics thing at all. In the book "Take it to the Limit" some of the truth behind this tune is revealed. The Eagles were the hottest thing in LA and rising fast until the end of '75. That was when Bruce Springsteen exploded with "Born to Run." He was their opposite. THe Boss sang from the gut and harmony was not what he did. He sang raw songs about city and urban life and love. He was the new hottest thing out there. When the "concept" for "Hotel California" came up this song naturally flowed from their feelings of being cast off by "the New Kid in Town." Now this album put the Eagles back up and in the forefront but they wrote about the California lifestyle of the mid 70's and what the experienced and knew was that anyone can quickly be cast off when the New Kid came around. |
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| Eagles – Hotel California Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I'm sure it's already been said but here we go: The Hotel California represents the self indulgence of the mid 70's culture in LA, California and much of the US. You have to remember that Henley is heavy into literature and symbolism. The people are trapped by their endless desires for more. They've found everything they've wanted and now it has them rather than them possessing those desires. "She's got the Mercedes Benz" "Mirrors on the Ceiling, Pink Champagne on ice." All of these describe the decadence and emptiness of what they've found. As they try to run away they find that they can't (either because they aren't able or the lure is too great to get away) "We are programmed to receive. You can check out any time you want, but you can never leave." BTW the 1969 lyric has to do with the era change. Many see that as the quintessential year that the Love, Hippie, Cause era ended (symbolically) and the era of greed, excess and "ME" began. While '69 gave us Woodstock (the ultimate 3 days of the Counterculture vision) it also gave us a few months later the disaster at Altamont, CA and the Hell's Angels knifing the guy in front of the Rolling Stone's Concert Stage. "Bring me my wine. We haven't had that spirit here since 1969." The Spirit was gone and what was left was self-indulgence. |
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| Eagles – Hollywood Waltz Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| To me this is not about a woman per se but the LA/Hollywood scene. The people are symbols of how the place and Industry uses you up like a whore and then goes on to another. | |
| Eagles – Life In The Fast Lane Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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You are all correct but some of the hidden stuff is glanced over. "Lines on the Mirror, Lines on her Face. She pretended not to notice, she was caught up in the race." Those are cocaine rails that are on the mirror or "lines". The doctor is for an Overdose but you have to hush him up with cash. Glenn Frey said he got the hook from a drug dealer he was riding with one day in LA and the guy was doing about 100 on an open freeway. When Frey said, "Hey man you're going a little too fast aren't you?" The man replied, "That's life in the Fast Lane." True story. |
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