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| Weird Al Yankovic – Polka Power! Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Umm.. yeah. I thought it was kind of obvious that these were other people's songs. You don't need to act so shocked. It's not the lyrics that make it funny, it's the fact that he can turn "Flagpole Sitta" and freaking Marilyn Manson into a polka song. I crack up every time he goes for Manson to Hanson. Woah, never noticed how that sounded.
A lot of his other stuff is hilarious, and it's original in lyrics. I'd suggest listening to that stuff if you're really that offended by this song. |
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| Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Good job, think... you'll have to research the background and purpose of any song to get a good sense of it. The most important question: Why did the artist create it? |
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| Pink Floyd – The Thin Ice Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Great song, no doubt. But I'm having some trouble understand Roger's piece of the song. I agree with the generalized view of innocence/protectiveness vs. experience, but what about the actual words?
"If you should go skating
On the thin ice of modern life
Dragging behind you the silent reproach
Of a million tear stained eyes"
Who are the million tear-stained eyes? Is it a premonition of what Pink will become, or something more universal? |
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| Pink Floyd – Waiting for the Worms Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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While Water did write The Wall and used many experiences to make it, this not is not about him! It's about Pink! Please make that distinction. |
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| Pink Floyd – Goodbye Blue Sky Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I just realized something... I'm assuming Pink lives in England, but there are a lot of strange lyrics, if so. In Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 1 they have the line, "Daddy's flown across the ocean.", and in Mother Pink asks her "Mother should I run for president?"
Just a little food for thought. |
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| Pink Floyd – Mother Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Definitelt one of the most important lines in the album...
"Of course mama's gonna help build the wall."
It leads to a great guitar solo, too, so it makes it even cooler. :-D |
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| Pink Floyd – Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I never really liked this song, mainly to the radio overplaying it (as they've done to me with "Money" at the moment). But after watching Pink Floyd The Wall, I've gained a new appreciation. It's one of the coolest scenes in the movie (and there are a LOT of cool scenes). |
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| Pink Floyd – The Happiest Days of Our Lives Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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The problem is that radio stations only play Part 2. They need to play The Happiest Days of Our Lives right before Part 2; it makes much more sense. They should also do that with Empty Spaces/Young Lust, but they dont play either of those enough for that to really be a problem... |
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| Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Honestly... it might be about drugs. That is, until you see the movie, which obviously shows that it isn't. It's not a director's interpretation; Rogers Waters helped create it. Therefore, it's exactly how he wanted it to be portrayed. |
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| Pink Floyd – Goodbye Blue Sky Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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...1984 was about Communist control, not Fascist. I'm not sure about Brave New World; that may be the fascist version of 1984. But 1984 itself is not about the Nazi Party: It's about how George Orwell thought it would be if the Communists won the Cold War. |
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| Billy Joel – Rosalinda's Eyes Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Are you sure? I don't really see anything in the song that would lean towards that... I'd see it more as a long to his Latin lover. ;-) |
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| Franz Ferdinand – Auf Achse Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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It's obviously a reference to Jesus, but there are certain lines that show it's only an analogy, particulary the last line of "Knowing never will I rise again." I think he's saying that he's devastated that they aren't together, and that it's on her conscience that he's "nailed above you, Gushing from my side." He's saying that either her coldness or infidelity, her sins, have "killed me."
"Thinking of your sins I die
Thinking how you'd let them touch you"
However, she's completely oblivious to his problems, since
"How you'd never realise
That I'm ripped and hang forsaken,"
Knowing that he will never recover, or "rise again." |
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| Toby Keith – Beer for My Horses Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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heh heh. You don't have to be a redneck to like this song; saying that one has to be one only shows your ignorance, Lloyd. You don't understand the message he's trying to get across: justice used to be so much simpler, but the corruption in today's courts and the way people can warp words screw up true fairness and justice for the injured.
Think about what you're saying before you say it next time, Lloyd. |
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| Kansas – Carry on Wayward Son Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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When I listened to this song recently, I noticed that it seems to have some Greek mythology in it. "I was soaring ever higher, But I flew too high" reminds me a lot of Icarus and Daedalus, Icarus's father. They were imprisoned, and to escape Daedalus built wings made of bird feathers and wax. He and Icarus escaped, but Icarus flew too high. He got too close to the sun; the wax melted and he plunged to his death into the sea (properly named the Icarean Sea). |
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| Tom Petty – Free Fallin' Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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partydress, I'm glad to see that you're taking an angle that not many people take in their approach to a great song: maybe it doesn't mean anything? Kind of like Stairway to Heaven. I think that's how every song starts, really; someone gives a good first couple lines, and it goes from there. however, this isn't a song that I think has no meaning at all. It's basically, like many have said, about a "good girl" and a "bad boy" who breaks up with her and feels no guilt. I don't like to lean towards saying a song is about drugs (since everyone thinks that EVERY SINGLE song is after that misunderstanding of Lucy in the Sky). I don't think that it mentions any specific use of drugs, though I could see the last stanza being interpreted that way. But just because someone does drugs doesn't mean that every song is about drugs. Hell, Shakespeare was bi, but you don't see him writing about his trnas-gender love affairs... |
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| Dire Straits – Why Worry Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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This song has quickly become one of my all-time favorites, although it's the kind that you can't just share everyone. You can't cheapen this kind of beauty; this is like a poem. It sounded like a nursery song being sung to a babe, before I even looked at the lyrics. Silly though it seems, it takes me back to my young childhood. For some reason, it reminds me of the cartoon movie Robin Hood, when they're all sitting in jail...
So why worry now... |
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| The Beatles – The Fool on the Hill Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Umm... no. It's not about Jesus, and it's definately not about Martin Luther King, Jr. I'm not sure about that story with Paul, but I sincerely doubt it. I'm more inclined to believe it's along the lines of Eastern philosophy and the true nature of wisdom. |
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| Led Zeppelin – The Battle of Evermore Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I think it could have been about any battle, but LZ specified it with the mention of the Ringwraiths. You may suspect it as you listen (if you're a LotR fan), but with the mention of Ringwraiths, it solidifies it. To me, the Angels of Avalon are the ghosts of the Path of the Dead. Since Avalon was the place where all the warriors went when they died, I'm sure that's what was meant. Now, I know that the ghosts were in no way 'angels', but I think that's just good alliteration for ya. ;-) |
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| Led Zeppelin – That's the Way Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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...Holy crap. I've heard this song so many times, but for some reason I never stopped to listen. I'm listening to How the West was Won (I'm on Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp right now), and I came here to get the lyrics. Holy... wow. |
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| Pink Floyd – A Great Day for Freedom Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Umm... I think you guys are looking a little too deep. Not every song on this album is about the band. It fits with the theme of isolation and seperation ("division", gasp). I'm pretty sure that it has more to do with the Berlin Wall falling, and how everyone celebrated the event. However, the line "And there's a change that, even with regret, cannot be undone" shows how there are permanent damages that we can't just apologize away.
I think there's probably more to this song than just this. The Berlin Wall is the main focus, but there are probably other inspirations that went into this song. |
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| Pink Floyd – The Dogs of War Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Nice, Kozmic. Way to take something and connect it to something not at all related. If you don't like Bush, that's perfectly fine; but I wouldn't go so far as to say he's evil incarnate. Jesus Christ, the song doesn't fit into the world situation in any plausible way..
Anyway, truly a badass song. I would have thought everyone would know about Julius Caesar, but I keep forgetting what facts are well-known and which aren't... oh well. ledbaron, it's a nice story, but it really isn't what relates to this song. It could be true, but it's not what this song's about. |
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| Pink Floyd – Poles Apart Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I think, like some of you, that this references both Barret and Waters, and how different they were in both their running of the band and their personality. The first stanza seems to be about Barret, and the econd seems to be about Waters. What gets me is the third stanza. It's pure poetry; I only wish I knew who the "you" was. I think it's targeted for both Barrett and Waters. Both "And that you'd never lose that light in your eyes" and "Leading the blind while I stared out the steel in your eyes" show how they lost that lust that propelled the band... which led to the las tline "I never thought that you'd lose that light in your eyes."
I'm open for suggestions. I think I have the first stanza figured out, but the second and third stanzas are confusing me right now. Any ideas? |
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| Blink-182 – Don't Leave Me Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I don't want anyone in particular to take this personally, but I really don't think that this song needs too much thought to see into. It's not a bad song, by any means, but it doesn't have the depth that some of the people posting try to give it. It's about a breakup; he tries to win her back, it doesn't work. I really don't think anyone needs to go any further in trying to analyze it, because I'm sure that Blink didn't go much further when writing this song. I'm not putting don't Blink in any way, though, don't get me wrong; I'm sure that other songs have some really deep meanings and such. This just isn't one of them. |
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| Led Zeppelin – No Quarter Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Reagan: Zeus is the Greek god of thunder, not the Norse.
Philidelphia: Good job, but I'm not sure about that ZoSo part. No one knows what ZoSo means except for Paige; he's only told Plant once, and he forgot. As for Thor being Satan, I really doubt that. This is the first time I've heard that he is Satan; he's always been the god of thunder. I think it's just supposed to be a sort of kenning; such as "gray-eyed Athena": something to add to put the Norse gods in the song. Plus, it sounds pretty cool. |
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