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| Counting Crows – Einstein On The Beach Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I've never seen the 1976 opera but I agree with the relation of the lyrics to nuclear war. There's several mentions of a sun, or "one more sun," that's probably referring to the bomb being like a second sun. I know the sun works a different way than the a-bomb, but anyway...
A nuclear attack could be "an inflated form of hit and run." If everyone is killed by a nuclear detonation, no one's left alive to point the finger, so it's kind of the ultimate (inflated) form of hit-and-run.
The "worst things come from inside here" refers to the fact that while Einstein had no involvement in the bomb, he may nevertheless have felt guilty that his ideas about mass and energy was the main idea behind it, so the worst thing (nuclear bomb) initiated inside his mind.
"Einstein's down on the beach standing in the sand 'cause everything he believes in is shattered." This may refer more to his failed search for a Theory of Everything than merely nuclear-related. Einstein insisted that the randomness of quantum mechanics cannot be true, and may have died trying to find a solution.
"What you fear in the night in the day comes to call anyway" Our darkest fears are about death and war, and in the day it may come anyway.
"And we all get burned as one more sun comes sliding down the sky" refers to massive death from a nuclear war. Again, that "other sun" is the bomb going off. |
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| Laurie Anderson – Baby Doll Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Now I first heard this song on SNL in 1986. So the lyrics at that time couldn't have been, "I don't even know George," because it would have been "I don't even know Ronald." But I don't recall if those were the exact lyrics or not. Point is I think the song was written in 1986 so there must have been different lyrics back then. |
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| Erasure – Ship of Fools Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I agree with bait - it can mean different things to different people. Here's my two cents: The Ship of Fools refers to the world itself and its inhabitants. Many of us are innocent deep down but we really don't have a good idea about how things work. In the U.S. anyway there's talk about how the nation is getting dumber, how people are less educated than before, so we are, fools in a way. We didn't even know "that two and two are four." We're just a bunch of naive fools sailing through space on planet Earth. |
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| Garth Brooks – Somewhere Other Than the Night Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think it's about a couple whose love life is at a standstill. They're kind of frustrated where things have gone. But then that rainy day they re-discover each other. Love isn't just something you do in bed at night. Love is something you have to have all the time. You've got to love someone "somewhere other than (just) the night." |
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| Tim McGraw – The Cowboy In Me Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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We all have kind of a rough, rugged cowboy exterior. We have a pride that causes us to do things that we're not proud of and we sometimes do stuff that we regret, that makes us angry at ourselves. But it's "the cowboy in us all", it's part of being human. Great song! |
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| Don Henley – The End of the Innocence Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I'm not sure about the virginity thing.. it can't be about lost childhood and virginity because then we're talking about a child character losing his virginity. I don't think it's about divorce either. I mean it could be, but it seems more apt to be a political statement. In that case, "daddy" and "the lawyers" would represent our president and the lawyers our government, which is made mostly of lawyers. The video for this song showed a picture of Ronald Reagen when "... for this tired old man that we elected king" played, so I really think it's a political statement about the world losing the innocence that it once had. "The lawyers clean up all details, cause daddy had to lie." The Reagen/Bush/Bush administrations kept going forward with dishonest and misleading policies, and their aides or political friends would hide their mistakes. When I hear the above line now, I think that "daddy" refers to George W. Bush who has lied to our country about reasons of going to war, but the conservative media and his political cronies (the lawyers) "clean it up" by misleading us into believing it's about moral values that they themselves don't even believe.
However that said, the early line, "with mommy and daddy standing by", that COULD be an actual mom & dad, representing our parents and teachers and friends who sheltered us from the hardships and lies of real life, but now the end of innocence is here and they can't protect us anymore ("since daddy had to fly").
But that's just my two cents. |
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| Devo – Jocko Homo Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Our society is decaying - it's slowly DEeVOlving. Soon we'll all be back to monkeys. Whether by God or not, man came into being through monkeys, and we'll die that way too. |
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| Dream Academy – Life In A Northern Town Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Just like the title says, it's a song describing what life was probably like in a rural northern town in the 1960s. In 1963 it seemed like the innocence was gone when JFK was killed and the "British Invasion" came. The singer is nostalgic for those days. |
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| Peter Gabriel – Games Without Frontiers Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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It's an analogy of modern international relations. At the heart of it, war is just a childish game. All these little children represent the different nations among the world, and their "silly games" are just what war is. Even if looks could kill they probably will... Hiding out in treetops, whether you're "shouting out rude names", or "shooting out" bullets, it's all the same in the end. |
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