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| Ben Harper – Never Leave Lonely Alone Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I am sure other comments will follow in time because, truly, this is an incredible song. Obviously it speaks about the pain and hurt that people experience--the lonliness that envelopes them. But the way it does it. Just so raw and exposed. You feel what he's talking about when he sings: "a lifetime of dreams roll down your face." And you understand what he means when he says "all that we can't say is all we need to hear." It's such a well-written song because it makes us feel. Such honest songwriting... glad to finally have a new Ben Harper album. |
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| Pearl Jam – Light Years Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I'm surprised people think that it is something as simple as an ode to the fans. Respect your opinion, but that's not it. As others have said, this is grief. A man who understands the world in so many ways cannot comprehend this loss. "We were but stones ... Your life made us stars" -- first of all it's one of the best lyrics Pearl Jam has ever written, in my opinion. But again, it just points back to the loss, to the beauty of the person who died and how much she meant to those around her. |
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| Coldplay – Speed of Sound Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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haha did you just say the Marx Brothers invented the airplane? that has to be one of the best typos I've ever read |
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| Ben Folds – Fred Jones Pt. 2 Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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To me these lyrics are as deep as any song Ben Folds has ever penned. The long and short of it has been summed up well above. Fred is leaving a job and retiring after 25 years. But along with his retirement he starts to look at his life. Now that he's reached the end of his career what does he have? 25 years at his job and they have a man "to take him downstairs." He's realizing that whatever role he thought he was playing was only temporary and very replaceable. How impersonal and inconsequential... "no one is left who knows his first name." and "Today's just a day like the day that he started." All those years and where has it gotten him?
To me the last part of the song is the most profound. But I don't take it literally like some might. Fred gets his paints out and traces the projection of slides. There is a picture of how things should be... an ideal. But when he's finished, when he's completed his version it "doesn't look right." Fred's life, now in retrospect, falls well short of the ideal he might have projected. And then Ben adds the ultimate condemnation of a life: "he's forgotten but not yet gone." Everyone has a favorite line or part of a song. For me, it doesn't get any better than that. |
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