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| Coldplay – Speed of Sound Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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First, melodically, it's a rewoking of Clocks (but if you can't steal from yourself... well.) Second, I am still getting comfortable with the album. It is more down than I woudl expect form Martin, who with new wife and baby, seems to still want to talk about the achy part of love. Enough with that.
As for the song... it seems to me, if Martin is to be believed it juxtopositions the bands fame, and what it has allowed (travel is explicitly mentioned... and I the birds lyrics in the chorus invoke an image of craziness, and tumult, like what it must be like to perform.) with the downside of fame (the lack of privacy, the furor that surrounds them.. etc.) Just seems like a song where he is trying to come to terms with this dichotomy. |
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| Richard Ashcroft – You On My Mind In My Sleep Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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First this is a beautiful song, very much something Verve could have done together on Urban Hymns. I just like the sentiment of this song. It's a total declaration of love, with all those little "am I good enough?" questions that surface running through out the song. Quite lovely really. |
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| Long-View – Further Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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This album was recently released in the States (I believe it was released in the UK over a year ago.. possibly longer.) Love this song, it's pretty but always struggled wiht the lyrics. It seesm to be very siritual in certain ways... but almost Emersonian (of the Ralph Waldo vareity) in others. I agree it's generally about reminiscence, but in context that we are here a very short time, and nature provides continuity and familiarity. It's a theory anyway. |
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| The Dream Academy – Waterloo Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I just heard this song again after many years. It definitely seems to resonate more now than it did in my youth. Waterloo is a train station in W1, London (West of central London) and is one of the busiest train stations in the London area. This is a song of loss and rememberance, and it seems some time has passed since "she" went away. Probably an anthem to lost innocence and youth, as much as a a loss of love... as the "we could run forever" is more a statement one would make when young a naive, and the opening lines regarding "work-a- holics" seems to at least posit the singer has some foot in the "all grown up" world. It is a incredibly beautiful song... and for me at least, takes me back some years to the one that got away.
A couple of small errors in the lyrics above. Of course it's blue forget-me-nots... and "I tried to tell it true" (not rue...) otherwise.... it's all good. |
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