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| Pearl Jam – Better Man Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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This is an awesome song, though horribly sad. I always liked it, but it's recently taken on a deeper meaning to me. There is this girl who is one of my best friends that I always had slightly deeper feelings for. Anyway, she keeps settling for these guys whose league she is far beyond. And when she started to get the impression that I had feelings for her, she withdrew and went back to her self-destructive relationship patterns. Even when an opportunity for true happiness presents itself, she still withdraws. She can't find the better man. |
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| Matchbox Twenty – Push Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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Actually, sapphireskies is right. When this song first came out, there was a huge uproar from women's groups claiming that the song promoted violence toward women. However, Rob Thomas went on some talk show and discussed how it was, in fact, he who had been abused. That shut 'em up pretty quick. Kind of ironic that they jumped down his throat for perceived violence toward women, but weren't disgusted by whatever woman did this to him. |
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| The Wallflowers – Somebody Else's Money Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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I loveloveLOVE this song! This song is the ultimate satire of how money-driven our society is as well as how paranoid money can make it. He sings about crashing neighbors' weddings, buying a mansion on the hill and filling it, then turns around and laments the fact that he knows "they're" listening from across the street, watching them fill up bathtubs with sweets. It's like every celebrity who has scratched and clawed to become famous, only to wheel around and complain that their newfound fame is cramping their social life. |
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| The Wallflowers – Josephine Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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This is, in my opinion, the greatest love song ever written. Why Jakob and the gang didn't release this as a single is beyond me. Won't you come and help me with these cuts of mine?/I've disconnected my heart/And cut myself ont he wires... That's the most beautifully graphic way of expressing true love I'd heard before I heard this song, or heard since. Jakob Dylan is the most underrated songwriter on the planet, and this song all but proves it. |
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| War – Spill The Wine Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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I always thought it was "Dig that girl." I suppose "Take" makes more sense. Regardless, awesome song. War is one of the best quirky songwriting bands in the world. |
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| Jackopierce – Please Come To Boston Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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I'm not sure what Dave Loggins (the songwriter) intended this song to mean, but it has special meaning to me. To me, it symbolizes my relationship with this girl to whom I was willing to give the world, but she was too afraid of disrupting her little niche in the world that she refuses to this day. To me, Boston, Denver, and L.A. are the symbols of this man's love for this woman, and Tennessee is her little spot to which she is anchored. It's really a heartbreaking song. |
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| Jim Croce – Bad, Bad Leroy Brown Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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This is one of those weakling-power anthems. Leroy Brown is that big, ugly kid who got all the good-looking girls in high school just because he was tough. Literally speaking, he crossed somebody stronger than him, figuratively, I think it has more to do with the fact that people like Leroy always get left behind in life. |
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| Ugly Kid Joe – Cat's in the Cradle Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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Actually, the original version was by Harry Chapin, recorded in 1974. I haven't heard the UKJ re-working, but Chapin's original is amazing.
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