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| Electric Light Orchestra – Rockaria! Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Lots of references to classical composers aside, I think this song could be about sex. The "she ain't ready" and "I'll show you how to sing the blues" are fairly typical allusions to a young woman and the singer's attempt to "woo" her, if you catch my meaning. I'm just not sure how the mayor fits in to the equation....! |
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| Electric Light Orchestra – Down Home Town Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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The asterisked lyrics still puzzle me to this day. The ucedemwinnin/"you see them winning" is fairly straight-forward, I suppose. But the "third eyebrow" comment is really bizarre. I found one writer who heard something interesting which raised his eyebrow; then he heard something else, which caused him to raise another eyebrow. Eventually something even MORE interesting happened, to which he said he would have raised a third eyebrow (if he had one). As a figure of speech, that's makes sense. But growing a third eyebrow....? I dunno. |
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| Electric Light Orchestra – Do Ya Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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This is one of my all-time favorite ELO numbers. Really great! A piece of trivia: It's not in the lyrics above, but at the very end of the song, you can hear Jeff say "Aw, lookout...!" In the original recording by The Move (or was it Idle Race?, I forget off the top of my head), the song ends with the line "Lookout baby a plane's a-comin'!" |
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