| Charlie Daniels Band – The Devil Went Down to Georgia Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Everyone gets this one wrong. Johnny lost his soul. In the very first verse, the song tells us that the devil was "looking for a soul to steal". Not "a soul to win fairly in a fiddling contest", a soul to STEAL. Of course the devil isn't exactly the honorable sort and shouldn't be expected to honor a bargain anyway. He's spent thousands of years perfecting the art of tricking men. He offers Johnny a deal. The "deal" is crafted such that it appeals to johnny's pride (one of the 7 deadly sins), and dangles a golden fiddle before Johnny to appeal to his greed (another deadly sin) in case his pride wasn't enough. Johnny acknowledges that "it might be a sin" before issuing the brash, prideful statement "I'm the best there's ever been" and accepts the deal. Sure, Johnny wins the fiddling contest, but the contest was never the devil's true interest. The devil lost on purpose, just to further inflate Johnny's pride. The devil's true interest was to STEAL Johnny's soul by tricking Johnny into agreeing to the deal at all, and our poor Johnny's soul was doomed from the moment he fell into the devil's trap and accepted the deal. | |
| Jackson Browne – Cocaine Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Er, the Rev. Gary Davis, that is. Gary Cole is an actor. No idea why my fingers typed that. | |
| Jackson Browne – Cocaine Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This one isn't a Jackson Browne original, though. It was written by the Rev. Gary Cole, Browne just did his own re-imagined version. Townes Van Zandt also did his own version with very different lyrics. The TVZ version is very good also. |
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| Jackson Browne – Rosie Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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It is undoubtedly about masturbation. Rosie is not the girl/groupie mentioned in the song, if you pay attention she ditched him fro the drummer. Rosie = "rosy palm"; it's basically a love song to his hand. After the drummer swept the girl away, he's left alone with with Rosie. For the guy who says "there is more to a song than the chorus", sure. There is. If you pay attention to them, Rosie can't possibly be the girl mentioned in the somg, because she split with the drummer so it wouldn't be "me and you again tonight". Besides he just met the girl so "again" wouldn't fit. He wasn't trying to make anyone happy but himself, but he got burned by the drummer and the groupie running off together. So he settles for "Rosie" who is always there in time of need, right at the end of his arm. There are tongue-in-cheek double-entendre clues buried in every single line of the chorus. "Rosie you're all right, You wear my ring" - On what part of your body do you wear a ring? On your hand. "When you hold me tight, Rosie that's my thing" - Really? The innuendo there shouldn't need any explanation. "When you turn out the light..." - What part of your body do you typically use to operate a light-switch? Your hand, of course. "I've got to HAND it to ME" - Oh come on, now. Clever lyrics aside, I don't see any other plausible explanation at this point. "Looks like it's me and you again tonight, Rosie" - As so many times before. |
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| Eagles – Those Shoes Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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From an interview with Don Henley and Glenn Frey: THOSE SHOES DON: One of my favorites. At that time, all the girls were wearing Charles Jourdan shows -- the ones with the little ankle straps. They'd become very popular and we were big fans [laughs]. And so, we said, "Well, it's not enough just to write about that; we have to turn it into a metaphor for women standing on their own two feet, so to speak, and taking responsibility for their own lives, their own losses." That was our intent. The lyric "Once you've started wearing those shoes" meant "Once you've started being your own woman and taking responsibility for your own life; once you've decided not to be just decoration -- an appendage to some guy -- then this is all the crap you're going to have to put up with in conjunction with that." Anyone who decided to become the master of his or her own destiny always has to put up with a lot of crap. On the surface the song was about the singles scene: the beautiful, young women seemingly unaware of the sharks waiting in the shallows... sharks that sometimes included us. It was also a great, great beat. It gave Felder a chance to strap on the talkbox, a device which Joe Walsh pioneered on "Rocky Mountain Way" -- and the two of them soloed together... GLENN: As far as I know, it's the only double-talkbox solo in existence. That's Felder and Walsh on talkbox at the end singing "Butt out...butt out...." Source: http://www.glennfreyonline.com/eagles/verybest/linernotes.htm So ProfessorKnowItAll was right about the "Butt out" on the talkbox. I agree wholeheartedly with PeglegPete's earlier comment that this is their most underrated song. I also think it's one of their very best. |
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