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| Peter Gabriel – Shock The Monkey Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I always took "Shock the Monkey" to mean to prove someone wrong who has always had your worst intentions at heart; in other words, throw the person who thinks you're useless for a loop by amounting to something. |
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| Splender – Space Boy Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I'm fairly certain that Waymon said this song is about Bowie, one of his musical idols. Space Boy would be a pretty clear reference to "Space Oddity" or the whole Ziggy Stardust personae. I think it's his take on how Bowie felt during his heyday, during which he felt so removed from the world due to his fame and drug overuse. He's saying that he'd rather spend his life engroseed in his music and art than dealing with people and the world around him. |
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| Rooney – I'm Shakin' Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Atrayu is NOT the name of "the flying dog thing", but the young boy-hunter who has to search for the cure for the Empress. The name of the luck dragon ("flying dog thing") who helps Atrayu on his quest is Falkor. Just wanted to clear THAT up. |
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| David Bowie – Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I believe that this one is a holdover from when "Diamond Dogs" was based on 1984, by George Orwell; in the book there is the five (or ten, can't recall at the moment) minute hate, in which everyone spits out their hatred towards the dissenters, given a face by a mannufactured rebel, and basically gets whipped into a frenzy. Unfortunately, Orwell's wife would now allow Bowie to use the text of the book on his album, so it was rewritten at the last moment. |
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| David Bowie – Always Crashing in the Same Car Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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It looks as if he's talking about his heroin addiction ("Those kilo(meters)"), his sexual exploits ("and the red lights"), the paranoia he eventually - albiet momentarily - succumbed to ("I was looking left and right"), and commenting that while he wanted to stop, he was always "crashing in the same car", or repeating his mistakes (further strengthened by "I was going round and round the hotel garage"). |
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| David Bowie – Buddha of Suburbia Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I find it interesting that he repeated the "Zane Zane Zane, Ouvre le chien" ("Zane Zane Zane, Open the dog") line from "All the Madmen" |
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