| U2 – With or Without You Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I rank this as one of the greatest songs ever made in our time. To me, this is a song about man caught between vice and virtue. I think the other interpretations (love triangle, God and addiction) are also "correct" or fitting. The song is perfectly applicable to all three since these are analogous to one another. He knows that the one he is tied to is no good for him, and yet what is really good to him and gives selflessly to him is not enough, it seems. Thus, his dilemma. This is every spiritual man's dilemma. Not everyone may agree. But that is the beauty of art. You don't have to know the "real" meaning behind it as intended by the artist. What matters is what that work of art means to YOU. |
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| Art Garfunkel – Bright Eyes Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This is a good song but nobody has yet to say what the song actually means to him or her. As the theme song of "Watership Down" (an animated film about rabbits looking for a new home after being driven away by men), it is played during the death of a main character. The spirit of the "Black Rabbit" is coming to take him to a kind of heaven, I believe. I think that's why the lyrics say "following the river of death." I also wonder if that "kind of shadow" is a reference to the Black Rabbit who appears only when a rabbit is about to die. It's a very beautiful song. One of Art Garfunkel's favorites. This is my favorite song of them all. I fell in love with it the first time I heard it. |
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| Queen – Too Much Love Will Kill You Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Oh my, so much debate over the song. I think it's obvious that it's about being "torn between the lover and the love you leave behind." But songwriting is an art, and art is always subject to interpretation. :) Anyway, I know two versions of this song. I'm not a big rock fan who knows the private lives of rock legends. I just know know two versions of this song. It's one of the greatest songs I've heard. The lyrics are sublime. And I like Brian May's own interpretation better than Queen's. It's a powerful performance and it never fails to move me. This is one of my favorite songs of all time. By the way, there are differences in the lyrics. In the Queen version, the line "Every way I go I have to lose" becomes "Every way I go I'm bound to lose." |
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| Westlife – Queen Of My Heart Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Sounds like two high schoold grads who are in love. They're going in separate ways to pursue their dreams, but they promise to remember each other and to meet again. I like the line, "And all of our tears will be lost in the rain..." This is one of my favorite love songs, along with "The Glory Of Love." It's one of those few songs that I can really feel because it has deep significance for me. One of the noblest love songs ever penned in recent times. |
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| ABBA – Cassandra Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This beautiful and tragic song is about the Fall of Troy. Its title is the name of the Trojan princess and prophetess, Cassandra. She was the sister of Prince Hector, and the daughter of Priam and Hecuba. Apollo fell in love with her once and gave her the gift of prophecy. But she spurned his love, and to punish her (since he could not take back his gift) Apollo decreed that no one would ever believe Cassandra's predictions. The result was that Cassandra could always foretell the future, but she was doomed never to be believed. People thought she was insane, because whenever she had a vision of the future, she went into a "divine frenzy" or fit. She warned her people not to let the Trojan Horse inside the city but no one listened to her. I'll try to explain the lyrics. "Down in the street they're all singing and shouting Staying alive though the city is dead Hiding their shame behind hollow laughter While you are crying alone in your bed" The Greeks came out of the Trojan Horse and burned the city at night. It is early morning now and the massacre of Trojan soldiers is over. Perhaps this describes the Trojan women who are left alive to be taken as slaves by the Greeks. "Pity Cassandra that no one believed you But then again you were lost from the start Now we must suffer and sell our secrets Bargain, playing smart, aching in our hearts" "Lost from the start" because of Apollo's curse. "Suffer, brain, playing smart" means they must sell themselves to the Greeks hoping they will end up with a kind and civilized master. (In Euripides' play, one woman wishes to go to Athens.) "Sorry Cassandra I misunderstood Now the last day is dawning Some of us wanted but none of us could Listen to words of warning" No one believed her. And "the last day is dawning" because on this same day, they are going to sail aboard the Greek ships that will take them to slavery. "But on the darkest of nights Nobody knew how to fight And we were caught in our sleep Sorry Cassandra I didn't believe You really had the power I only saw it as dreams you would weave Until the final hour" See, the Greeks fell on the Trojans in the night when they were asleep. "So in the morning your ship will be sailing Now that your father and sister are gone There is no reason for you to linger You're grieving deeply but still moving on" She will be boarding Agamemnon's ship. He is the most powerful of the Greek chiefs, and the brother-in-law of Helen. Her "father and sister" are Priam, the father of Hector, and Polyxena. The latter was supposed to have been Achilles' bride, but Achilles died long before this day. And the Greeks sacrificed the girl on his tomb. "You know the future is casting a shadow No one else sees it but you know you're fate Packing your bags, being slow and thorough Knowing, though you're late, that ship is sure to wait" She sees her own death is coming soon. Agamemnon will take her home as his prize of honor. There he will ask his wife to honor Cassandra as a captive princess. But Clytemnestra (Agamemnon's wife) will murder them both in cold blood during dinner. Cassandra will warn the king about his fate, but again she will not be believed. "I watched the ship leaving harbor at midnight Sails almost slack in the cool morning rain She stood on deck, just a tiny figure Rigid and restrained, blue eyes filled with pain Sorry Cassandra I misunderstood...." So the day ends and the ships sail. A fellow Trojan woman is speaking. She describes Cassandra, the prophetess no one would believe. There are so few songs like this. It is one of my favorites by the great Abba. |
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