| Pete Townshend – Empty Glass Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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'Empty Glass' provides Townshend's condensed rock'n'roll adaptation of the Book of Ecclesiastes. "The spark-off for the song was when I read Ecclesiastes again, and it was so powerful," Pete told Trouser Press. "You've got King Solomon talking about how after he's fucked everybody and had everything and gone through everything, the only piece of advice he's got is that life is useless. But it also contains some great inspirational poetry: 'There is a time', and all that. It really reminded me of a lot of Persian Sufi poetry - that it's only in desperation that you become spiritually open..." "Empty Glass is a direct jump from Persian Sufi poetry," Townshend told Greil Marcus in explaining the album's title. "Hafiz - he was a poet in the 14th century - used to talk about God's love being wine, and that we yearn to be intoxicated, and that the heart is like an empty cup. You hold up the heart, and hope that God's grace will fill your cup with his wine. You stand in the tavern, a useless soul waiting for the barman to give you a drink - the barman being God. It's also Meher Baba talking about the fact that the heart is like a glass, and that God can't fill it up with his love - if it's already filled with love for yourself." "Spirituality to me is about the asking, not the answers," he elaborated to Trouser Press. "I still find it a very romantic proposition, that you hold up an empty glass and say, 'Right. If you're there, fill it.' The glass is empty because you have emptied it. You were in it originally. That's why it's only when you're at your lowest ebb, when you believe yourself to be nothing, when you believe yourself to be worthless, when you're in a state of futility, that you produce an empty glass. Normally, you occupy the glass. By emptying or vacating the glass, you give God a chance to enter it. You get yourself out of the way...you ask for help. -quoted from Who Are You: The Life of Pete Townshend by Mark Wilkerson |
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| Pink Floyd – Is There Anybody Out There? Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I love the live version of this song: "Is there anybody out there?" "YES!" |
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| Pink Floyd – A Saucerful of Secrets Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Call me crazy, but I couldn't help but think of the last segment of '2001: A Space Odyssey' while listening to this. | |
| The Who – The Punk And The Godfather Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Jimmy goes to cheer himself up at a Who gig, but becomes disillusioned when he realizes that the "godfathers" are just a bunch of phonies. | |
| The Who – Won't Get Fooled Again Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Go to this web page and READ: http://www.petetownshend.co.uk/diary/display.cfm?id=285&zone=diary |
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| The Who – Sister Disco Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Not quite sure, but from what lyrics I'm able to interpret, this song is about rejecting a form of muzak (disco, in this case, since this was the late '70s) and going for the music that fits you personally. | |
| The Who – Behind Blue Eyes Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| If someone could show proof that this song is about the villain of Lifehouse...please mention where you heard it. | |
| The Who – Sparks Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Sparks (Live at Leeds) = unbelievably awesome | |
| The Who – The Real Me Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Each stanza that follows with Jimmy shouting "Can you see the real me?" reflects one of his presonalities. Doctor never betraying what he thinks - Helpless Dancer "I'm crazy ma!" - Bell Boy Trying to reach his girl - Is It Me? Seeing the preacher - Love Reign O'er Me Read the story within the album, it might make more sense there. |
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| The Who – Dr. Jimmy Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Jimmy Cooper has lost everything he held dear in his life. The sight of the Ace Face working as a bell boy for the same hotel he smashed up completely destroyed Jimmy's pride in being a mod. Having already been severely disappointed with rock, his parents, his girlfriend, and his job, he drinks his problems away 'cause he has nothing left to live for. He could do any terrible act and not care at all. Amazing song. Keith Moon's drumming in particular is incredible. The final 1.5 minutes is simply glorious noise and it transitions so well into the next track on the album. |
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| Pink Floyd – Waiting for the Worms Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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What I find most intriguing about this song (or the two preceding ones) is that Pink has turned into an almost prefect carbon-copy of the man his own father died fighting against. By the way sam75023hello, I think the guy on the first disc is the prosecutor in Pink's trial. At least, during the trial scene in the movie, the character singing "Good morning Worm your honor..." most resembles the guy on the disc. The thing on the second disc is the face of Pink's wife. I don't know why these two pictures are on opposite discs, they'd make more sense that way. |
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| Pink Floyd – The Happiest Days of Our Lives Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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The title of this song is such a great example of irony. Adults always tell children that their youth contains the happiest days of their lives, but in Pink's world, there is no such happiness with the presence of his sadistic teachers. Also, I've heard that Roger Waters was always intrigued by the concept of cycles in life. I believe that the lyrics about the teachers' wives thrashing them is an example of a cycle within The Wall. The wives thrash the teachers, the teachers thrash Pink, Pink later thrashes his audience... |
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