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| Eagles – Take It Easy Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This is a great song because it can be taken many ways. Perhaps a dont-worry-be-happy kind of way, but it seems clear to me that this is a song about every boy's fantasy about girls! Lovin em and leaving em. He tells his lover to 'Take it easy' and 'Lighten up' when dumping her and then later says 'take it easy' again to mean 'see you later'. Kinda cold and cruel but the way it goes when you have seven women on your mind! Jackson Browne's version seems to me to have aged much better than The Eagles'. |
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| Josh Ritter – Girl In The War Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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My own impression is that the central theme is about a soldier who's shot a girl in the war, agonizing over his tragic blunder. He tries to rationalize saying "If they can't find a way to help her they can go to hell". He also pretends that the dove from above (i.e. God) is on his side, but still he knows that he's done a terrible thing and prays that she makes it through. The song is about the confused logic of going to war and justifying war. The keys to the kingdom (heaven) got somehow locked inside the kingdom, indicating that our moral compass is broken and led us to this nightmare situation! The evocative lines about champagne eyes remind us of the sadness of the senseless tragedy and of the poor girl he's shot. Brilliant song. |
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| Ryan Adams – These Girls Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I love this song and have been listening a lot to it. I thought originally that it was about a excess and lust, but in fact it seems to me to be about a something much more sinister. A death. Perhaps murder or maybe just an unfortunate misadventure. In the first verse he talks about being a monster lurking underneath the bed. A monster you ain't afraid of yet. Late night girls are prostitutes probably, and Ryan sings about them being anxious. Sort of implies that perhaps the subject is a serial killer. Then theres the bit about a funeral and the reciept. The killer is caught by the police and aggressively interrogated. He toys with his interrogators and asks them to stop it please. Too weird. Creepy, especially with his allusions to toys and play. Ryan Adams never fails to surprise! |
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| Ryan Adams – Firecracker Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I think this song is about inspiration and taking a chance with performance and art. I think its a sort of answer to Blackbird by the Beatles. Black bird breaking a glass of wine reminds me of Ella Fitzgerald and her Memorex adverts where she breaks a glass with her singing voice. Similarly, Lennon and Maccartney sang about the soul singers of the sixties in Blackbird. As for his plane going down... I think he's just saying that he's going to risk it all for the sake of his music. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I think Bruce is trying to say that there's no getting away from the bad things in life. He's singing from the killer's point of view, and the killer accepts that he's bad and that he's got it coming to him. I guess Bruce is saying that we are forced to accept it as well and just get on with it. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Matamoros Banks Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Thanks Bruce for telling this story. The Devils and Dust DVD performance is brilliant. It's sad to see so many fellow Americans so willing to dehuminze these desperate people or even hunt them down like animals with guns. |
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| Ryan Adams – Wild Flowers Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Great song. It seems to me that this song is tragic to the extreme. It's about a woman who loses her life as a result of a destructive relationship. Perhaps a suicide or maybe at the hands of her lover. The singer offers consolation that she's finally free of him. It seems odd that Ryan says that "everything went up in smoke like wildflowers". Perhaps more evocative than wildfire? |
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