| Tom Waits – Romeo Is Bleeding Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Try listening to it ;) It's not in the lyrics, but he says some stuff in spanish at the end. I'm guessing it has something to do with "and they're talkin now in spanish about their hero". | |
| Augie March – Asleep in Perfection Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Actually, i think he's writing about unrequited love. 'A souls misdirection', directed at a married woman. The first few lines sounds like he's flying out of town. 'You were a girl, now you're a wife Do not these memories stir you From your long and peaceful night's' Perhaps they'd once been together, when she was younger. Sounds like he's kind curious how she can sleep so peacefully when he's yearning. |
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| Nick Drake – River Man Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Fairly sure he's referring to a lost love. The third stanza intrigued me, so i went and did some research. Das Dreimäderlhaus, an opera with music composed by Franz Schubert, about the composers life, debuting way back in 1916, was later rewritten for UK audiences and renamed 'Lilac time.' "Schubert writes a beautiful love song to his beloved Mitzi. But he gets his best friend Baron Schober to sing it to her, and she falls in love with him instead of poor Franz, who has to find consolation in their happiness - and in his music." How Nick Drake is that? Similar in tone to Hanging on a Star, the theme of unrequited love comes up fairly often in Drake's music. Betty comes by to talk of 'fallen leaves', lost opportunites, past actions that can't be recounted. Fallen leaves could also refer to Autumn, he then goes on to write about summer in a more nostalgic sense. The riverman could obviously refer to the passage of time. I think he's writing about a love that has been lost somewhere between summer and autumn. "Oh how they come and go." Beautiful song. | |
| Tom Waits – Romeo Is Bleeding Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Anyone know what Tom says in spanish in this song? | |
| Augie March – Addle Brains Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I think the last stanza reveals what Addle Brains' all about, a theme that carries on from Song in the Key of Chance, and well, to some degree nearly every song on Augie's 'Strange Bird' album. "But to reason with a dry mouth and a half-open eye some people weren't born to dance, While others are halted mid-step to the beat of a song in the key of chance." Often Glen refers in some way to class, the disadvantaged, and also the tenuousness of these distinctions. That is, the agonising 'chance' of these distinctions that divide and define us. "All it takes, it takes, is a kind look and a word, a word, Some pretty eyes and skin, from your fine family you were given to win, and spill it over into the basin of common sin, just a drop, a drop of the stuff that makes us kin - Addle Brains perching way out on a limb." Those separated by blood are often worlds apart. "O the hungry sky aches for blokes without folks and bulges with the beares of palls." It's a beautiful, kinda tragic song, particularly considering it has a really whimsical sound. If Little Wonder, Sunstroke House and The Keepa describe lives lived in regret, Addle Brains and Song in the Key of Chance are those not even given the chance. |
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