| Boston – Cool The Engines Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I love this song; I’m actually surprised I’m the first to comment about it. It’s all about getting ahead of yourself and “burning out” too fast. I think Boston realized they were headed for greatnesses and this song shows just how humble they really were. Not like today’s modern rock groups who play one good song and think their gods on stage. They burn themselves out by taking to much credit for there shitty songs and one hit wonders. Boston however play classics and “Cool the Engines” shows that even though they knew they were a hot band: We keep getting hotter, Movin' way too fast, They realized that if they blow themselves out of proportion they were going to fade like everyone else. Moral of the story: Don’t get ahead of yourself and think that your shit smells sweeter then most. Cool your engines. | |
| Kansas – Dust In The Wind Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I would have to say that I don’t fully agree with RPZQ's explanation of the song, I will however, agree with his saying about the body being the earth and it will eventually return. I feel this song is written to show just how insignificant human life is in compared to the great and awesome universe before us. --“I close my eyes, only for a moment, and the moment's gone all my dreams, pass before my eyes, a curiosity”-- This refers to how small our life span is compared to everything else. We live a small, irrelevant life and the universe doesn’t change due to our existence. --“Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea all we do, crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see”— This is quoting that every human is just a smudge in the universe’s plan. We feel ourselves as being this “higher life form” but the reality of it that we are of no difference to anything else. We live, we die. We are not Gods by nature; we have just mastered our own reality and not yet that of the universe. The second line of that verse confirms that idea. No matter how hard we try, everything that human kind has built, slowly topples itself and crumbles. Buildings, societies, nations, empires, cultures, and even religions have faltered and fallen between the cracks of human existence. Our kind however, would not like to look at it like that seeing how we think of ourselves as masters of this realm. --“[Now] Don't hang on, nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky It slips away, and all your money won't another minute buy.”— Once again going back to the feeling that we are our masters of the universe even though we know little about anything. Everything that we have built will crumble, nothing that is man-made is perfect, nor will it ever be. Only what the universe builds will remain forever in the sands of time. And in the end, no matter what you have in your life (money, education, wife, kids) will matter when you fade away in time, forever. Overall this song is important in realizing that you, even though you may be higher class, better dressed, or have a “better” educational background, are no more important to anyone else in the eyes of the universe. You are as unimportant to her as you would see a single spec of dust in the wind. That spec to you is unnoticeable and irrelevant. You are viewed the same way by her, and you should –never- forget that. |
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