| Leonard Cohen – Famous Blue Raincoat Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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'Well I see Jane'Awake...She sends her reguards.' Wouldn't this imply that Jane us still with him? That she woke up and asked him to send love in his letter? Also I wonder sometimes if he could be writing th e letter to a younger incarnation of himsef? |
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| R.E.M. – So. Central Rain Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| It is well documented that this song is about Carol Levy. A photographer and dear friend of the band (she took the pictures on the 'chronic town' sleeve). She was killed in a flood just before 'Rekoning' was recorded. 'Camera' is also about her. | |
| Natalie Merchant – Motherland Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Take one last look behind Commit this to memory and mind Don't miss this wasteland, this terrible place When you leave Keep your heart off your sleeve. Such a sad verse. Leaving one's beloved home and having to tells ones self that itsa 'wasteland ', and 'Terrible place' in order to enable yourself to leave without a backward glance. So many refugees of different kinds have had to do this. ''Now come on shot gun bride What makes me envy your life? Faceless, nameless, innocent, blameless and free What's that like to be?'' So middle America! The one who is pilloried in the community is the truely nieve one. |
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| Natalie Merchant – Thick As Thieves Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think its about the rise and fall and the major clashes of Religion and ideologies throughout history. | |
| R.E.M. – Sweetness Follows Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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'Distanced from one, Blind to the other' The relationships within familly maybe? Have good relationships while you can? |
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| Bright Eyes – Easy/Lucky/Free Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Why does this song remind me so much of Dougles Coupland's books? Whenever I read one I hear this in my head. So strange. | |
| Radiohead – I Will. (No Man's Land.) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I think this song is clearly about war but I had a pretty weird experience with it a few months ago. I had never listened to it properly but it was playing in the background. My brother was watching a news report about those little girls in Belgum who were locked away and killed by that monster ( I think he was being sentenced). And I started crying because I suddenly heard the lyrics and thought of them in the conext of 'how do you protect your children from that kind of evil? Do you rise up and fight or do you hide yourself away and bury your head in the sand? | |
| R.E.M. – Parakeet Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I get the impression that its about escaping from an abusive relationship or unhappy past. | |
| Morrissey – Found Found Found Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| s0omone told me this song was about Michael Stipe from REM, but now that I read the lyrics it could be about anyone. | |
| Tori Amos – Muhammad My Friend Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I thibnk it great that she's managed to offend every fundimentalist (be they Jew ,Chritian or Muslim),on the planet with one song. ;-) | |
| Leonard Cohen – Famous Blue Raincoat Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Anyone whose partner has run off with their best friend must know how he feels here. | |
| Tori Amos – Me And A Gun Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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'”Me and Jesus a few years back Used to hang and he said "It's your choice babe just remember I don't think you'll be back in 3 days time'' Considering Suicide maybe? No going back after that, no ressurection. |
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| Tori Amos – Mary Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| 'The wind cries Mary' is a song by Jimmy Hendrix...just thought I'd mention it. | |
| Leonard Cohen – Alexandra Leaving Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I think its about his daughter leaving home with her boyfriend...Take another look at the lyrics. | |
| Eels – Understanding Salesman Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| It is? | |
| Eels – Climbing To The Moon Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| God this is beautiful. | |
| Eels – Dead of Winter Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I saw this peformed live and was crying my eyes out, then I looked around and saw that both the people next to me were too. | |
| R.E.M. – Nightswimming Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| there are some great insights here. I guess it could be a metaphor on reflection on the past. Thinking about what has gone, the people you've lost...'You I thought I knew you/you i cannot judge/ you I thought you knew me/this one laughing quietly/' Always reminds me of talking to ghosts. | |
| R.E.M. – Disturbance At The Heron House Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I think the line is ''An early morning pre-dawn din''. I could be wrong? | |
| R.E.M. – The Lifting Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| i always thought it was about a rationalist who ,deep inside, still feels spiritual. | |
| R.E.M. – Chorus and The Ring Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Apparantly about Having William S.Burroughs and Kurt Cobain at his house a few months before they died. Must have been quite a party. ''Just defy it, just deny it, was it fun? Your time has come... What have you done? What have you done?'' Could be a W.S. Burroughs reference, he accidentally shot his wife in the head while high. |
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| R.E.M. – Aftermath Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| It seems to me to be a sequel to 'Belong'. A woman in the kitchen listening to the radio...A nameless threat on the way. Here the threat arrives but she survives it. Made me think of the blitz. | |
| Al Stewart – Joe the Georgian Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| About Stalin.and all the deamons waiting in hell for him. | |
| Al Stewart – Joe the Georgian Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| About Stalin. | |
| R.E.M. – The One I Love Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Hears my take. Its not a song about Love, Its about what people call love. Whata people think love is, what they try and convince themselves love is: Being 'In' love and loving somone are not the same thing. Obsession can feel like love but it pales sooner or later and the person is forgotton, the 'fire' burns out as quickly as it flared, and another takes his/her place. How many times have you seen somone get into a really intense relationship fueled by their own neurosis? to fill that black hole inside of them? Almost like a junky getting a fix? It always ends and another 'Prop' takes over where the last left off. Leaving the junky to 'come down on their own'. Is this in fact the true nature of Love? If it feels intense for even a second is it real love? If you SAY is love then does that make it true? is it possible to leave someone you truely love and treat them like a 'simple prop'? Is the song really saying that is the case and that a higher 'Pure' version of love does not exist. Or is it an outside perspecive on what is essentially a self serving involvement with another person, explained and accepted as a 'love affair'? THIS IS NOT LOVE! Also I have noticed that Stipe seems to use 'Fire' or references to fire as a byword for corruption. So its a very cynical song but at the same time kind of idealistic, trying to show us up for the fools we are. |
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