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| Dire Straits – On Every Street Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I agree with those who take this song literally. I think it's about a man who's significant other has run away. He's searching for her for ages, trying to pick up the trail, and eventually he does pick up the trail: he finds she's thrown herself under the wheels of a truck. 'Every victory has a taste that's bittersweet' - the 'victory' is that he now knows where she is, the bittersweet taste is that it's not the answer he was looking for... |
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| Dire Straits – Iron Hand Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I think this song is about the fairly brutal put-downs of the miner's protest during the miner's strike in the UK in the 80s. |
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| Mew – An Envoy To The Open Fields Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Well this sort of sounds like sentence fragments thrown together - very hard to discern any meaning.
Maybe the feeling behind it is of a guy who's besotted with a girl who is wrong for him, who uses him, and who eventually leaves him. He has realised that she never even knew him. Maybe. I don't know, but some lines suggest this. |
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| Oceansize – Ornament/The Last Wrongs Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I agree, this song is brilliant.
To me it's like it's talking to someone who has just died, reflecting on what they did in their life and what their life meant. 'Feathernest, invest and gain, shiny brass (money) is milk and grain, and yours is to just sustain'...these words are about how all our lives we fight over money, trying to just keep our heads above water. 'And all the while you quietly crave and crave - the day is done. The time you've made has come and gone. Stay asleep now.'...these words are just heartbreaking. It's like the subject of the song has spent his life just trying to survive, all the while desperate for something more, and now at the end he finds nothing. His time is gone, and all he can do now is sleep. 'Everyone into position, everyone into their place, grow to grow at snail's pace'...I'm more confused about this and the rest of the song but it sounds like it refers to the position of everyone in society as a cog in a very large machine. We grow that the machine may grow, but only at a snail's pace.
Amazing. A truly beautiful song. |
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