| The Beatles – Day Tripper Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[fusionpit:2033] Cute. Just the lads taking the piss. | |
| The Beatles – Day Tripper Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[rubyhorse21:2032] I have to agree it's about drugs. Would be nice if you could link to your source, though. But I know it's been over 10 years since you wrote that comment. Fuck I'm getting old. | |
| My Bloody Valentine – Only Shallow Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Sublime. This is what this site is (was?) about. You rock dude. | |
| King Crimson – The Court of the Crimson King Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Argh.. can't believe I missed SkpVwls' comment. Sorry! | |
| King Crimson – The Court of the Crimson King Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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If you're a fan, you're gonna love this: the lyricist (Peter Sinfield) has a somewhat deranged website which goes into a bit of detail about the lyrics and whatnot: songsouponsea.com From the writeup for this album: "Frederick II, a fusion of not only east and west, but of past and future, was, in many respects, an embodiment of the alchemical union of opposites. By symbolizing the sun in the title song, Frederick serves as an allegory for the highest alchemical state, the Rubedo, the sun at its zenith. Like Frederick, the album is also a fusion of past and future. In Peter Sinfield's verses, Frederick II is commenting on his own life and times, the present age (his future), and, in the case of Twenty First Century Schizoid Man, our future. As the Middle Ages are characterized by the Hermetic Principle of Correspondence: As Above, so Below, and the album, In the Court of the Crimson King, is told from a decidedly medieval perspective, it follows that there is both a metaphysical (an above) and an earthly (below) Crimson King. (See chapter two) It also follows that Peter Sinfield's lyrics are not the words (observations) of just any medieval person, but specifically those of Frederick II. His observations of the modern world are filtered through what he has learned in his personal 13th century milieu. The album, sub-titled An Observation by King Crimson is, more specifically... An Observation by Frederick II" -- http://www.songsouponsea.com/Promenade/Court.html |
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| King Crimson – The Court of the Crimson King Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Umm, sorry but no, this is a Peter Sinfield and Ian McDonald song. From the wiki: "More significantly, McDonald brought in lyricist, roadie and art strategist Peter Sinfield, with whom he had been writing songs — a partnership initiated when McDonald had said to Sinfield, regarding his 1968 band Creation, "Peter, I have to tell you that your band is hopeless, but you write some great words. Would you like to get together on a couple of songs?" One of the first songs McDonald and Sinfield wrote together was 'The Court of the Crimson King'". |
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| Stereolab – John Cage Bubblegum Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It's the most beautiful and it's the saddest It's the most beautiful vista in the world |
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| Stereolab – Wow and Flutter Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"All things must pass..." It's about illumination, about realising that all of what you've been spoonfed as the truth -- capitalism, nationalism -- are mere human creations, and thus mortal. |
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| Grandaddy – Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Beautiful. Has this song made anyone else cry? It's so, so sad, captures so perfectly a mood of, no sé qué, nostalgia, la nostalgia del fin de siglo as el tri put it. And I had always thought the line was "high school ready-made keys". That made more sense to me; I thought it was about keys that were illicitly-copied in a high school shop. Any idea on what "wedding ring keys" means? |
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