| Barenaked Ladies – Be My Yoko Ono Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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this is the pun (i think): "oh no!" = (yoko) ono "oh no, here we go" or "ono, here we go" |
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| Waterdeep – The Worst Is My Being Alone Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song has a lot of depth in a way you don't get much in music. So much in American pop-culture stresses individuality and standing on your own, but this song takes a different approach saying that having someone to care for and rely on is much more important that individual freedom and ambition. we can't all be superstars, but we can all have someone important in our lives. | |
| Waterdeep – No One Told You Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| The meaning is simple: life is hard and nobody warned us how hard it can be. The final verse is supposed to be God speaking - he know's we have it bad, but he's here all along, even if we didn't know it. And when our end (death) comes he already died on the cross for us, so the biggest of our troubles is over. | |
| Waterdeep – People Go By Like A Flame Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song has several meanings to me. Mostly I think it's about people and the emotions they evoke in your life. The narrator is awash in nostalgia over running into a friend he hasn't seen in years. Comparing this to the cold anonymity of being in a crowded airport he gets to the chorus. He thinks about how thousands of people just flash in and out of our lives and even though we never interact with them they all have an important story, just like his forgotten friend. It's about recognizing that, and the significance people have in our lives - they might comfort us (get warm) and they hurt us (get burned). Since waterdeep is a Christian band i also think "sun" is meant to be interpreted as "Son" as well (Jesus - God's son). people are really important, but they are just a small "flame" compared to the "sun" that is Jesus Christ. |
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| Gordon Lightfoot – Carefree Highway Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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so the lyrics are pretty obvious, but i had to comment because i love gordon lightfoot: he hits the road thinking about a relationship that went bad. it's obviously something that happened a long time ago ("I wonder if the years have closed her mind") but feels like it was just yesterday ("The mornin' after blues") and as a result it still haunts him. |
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| Ben Folds – Bastard Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This is a copy and past from www.myspace.com/benfolds presumably it's from a real interview: The first track the trio recorded was "Bastard," which is a driving examination of the growing ranks of young conservatives that features vocals recorded on election night. "Winston Churchill said people who are old and liberal have no brain and people who are young and conservative have no heart. I wanted to say something about the jadedness of kids who think that it's all been done and they've seen everything by the time they're 18. You're not supposed to be like that when you're a kid. You have to let yourself be idealistic for at least a couple of minutes. There's a kind of person who gets more open-minded with age too. In this song, the old bastard is actually a teenager." college-aged conservatives is a wierd group to pick on considering we're a definite minority on any campus, but...whatever |
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| Beyoncé – Check on It Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This song is about pizza. The narrator is delivery a pizza and making sure the customer pays: "Dip it, pop it, work it, stop it, check on me tonight" - the pizza is being made. The dough is dipped and worked. "Ya can't take it, it's blazin, you rock me it amaze me You can look at it, as long as you don't grab it If you don't go braggin, I'ma let you have it" - The pizza is 'blazin' hot and delicious, but the customer can't have it yet. and of course: "I can tell you wanna taste it, but I'm gone make you chase it" - of course he wants to taste it; it's a delicious pizza! but first he has to pay ("chase") for it. pretty obvious really |
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| Johnny Cash – Man in Black Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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"I wear the black in mournin' for the lives that could have been," this line strikes me as refering to abortion. the aborted fetuses being the lives that could have been. this line could also be a lead in to the next line: "Each week we lose a hundred fine young men." i presume this line is a reference to vietnam and it could be a continuatino of the previous line, but i doubt it. i think the previous line is in regards to abortion. |
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| Cat Stevens – Wild World Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This song is clearly about a relationship with a girl ending, but it seems obvious to me that the narrator is getting dumped and his girl is moving away to live a more exciting (or successful, or glamorous, whatever) life. There's no way it can be about a daughter or a friend, because of the theme of bitterness in the first verse. He's clearly holding a grudge against this girl: "now that i've lost everything to you" - you don't say that to a daughter, you say that to a girl who dumps you unceremoniously. The same is true for: "I hope you have a lot of nice things to wear But then a lot of nice things turn bad out there" He's not actually wishing her well, he's being sarcastic. He thinks she's naive and he's mad that she broke up with him, and he's hoping that all her plans to be successful fall through. It is definitely not about fond remembrances. |
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