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Oasis – Wonderwall Lyrics	21 years ago
Wonderwall was the name of a film and record by George Harrison. Back Beat was a film about the Beatles. "All the roads we have to walk are winding" is obviously a reference to "The Long and Winding Road" by Paul McCartney. This song is a Beatles rip-off, like almost everything Oasis has ever done.

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David Poe – Reunion Lyrics

21 years ago

Once David told me this song is not about his own family, but the family of a friend or girlfriend who was celebrating a holiday while mourning a death in the family that was a suicide. It is a great song, and subtle because it doesn't mention suicide at all except for the line about "powder-burn blue," like the powder burns from a rifle or gun. Also the lyric is "See how the time is frozen cold." I think this becasue it rhymes with "old" from the the next line.

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David Poe – California Lyrics

21 years ago

David Poe is one of my favorite singer/songwriters, especially for his lyrics. I met him in London and asked him about some of his songs. He said then this one was inspired by a girl he knew from New York who moved to California and sadly overdosed on heroin, and that he never had been to California at the time he wrote it. But then I asked him about it later when I saw him play it San Francisco and he said the whole thing was made-up, but I think he was just embarassed or trying to be mysterious. By the way, the lyric in the second chorus is definitely "wide open DRESS," not drug. Too bad he doesn't play this one live very much anymore.

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David Poe – Settlement Lyrics	21 years ago
A breakup song that's not full of self-pity. A settlement could be like a divorce settlement or a leper colony. This is the last song on David's first album in the US, and the first song on David's first album in the UK. They're slightly different versions.

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David Poe – Love Won't Last The Afternoon (Lullaby) Lyrics

21 years ago

This is a cynical song about love that is one of my favorite David Poe songs. The affair described here seems to involve a photographer becasue she's in a "dark room" and "shot her last roll." Or maybe that's just a double entendre. David Poe tends to drop in some references to The Bible, and the bit about the king with the prophets who doesn't want to understand his dreams seems like a reference to the story of Daniel in the Old Testament. Also David's a New Yorker so I'll bet the "hundred blocks" he mentions in the last verse has something to do from going uptown to doentown or vice versa. what an amazing song!

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