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| Squeeze – Up The Junction Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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@[jonathanpk:33980] Exactly, this song uses tense to set you up and then knock you down. The first four verses are past tense ("I never thought", "We moved in", "I got a job", etc). Then the fifth verse is in the present tense ("This morning at four fifty") to make you think he is wrapping up the story with the birth of his daughter - sitting there thinking about how he and his love got to this point. Aw, what a nice story. Then BAM - the lyrics hit you with the painful reality by jumping in time ahead a couple of times. Brilliant. |
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| Lou Reed – Dirty Blvd. Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Fantastic song. I always thought that the "book of magic" that Pedro finds was a brilliant allegory for drug use. "At the count of 3, he says, I hope I can disappear and fly fly away, from this dirty boulevard." Every time I hear that verse, it hits me right in the gut. |
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| Genesis – Anyway Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Love the lyrics of this song. In particular
"They say she comes on a pale horse,
But I'm sure I hear a train"
"she" being Death, of course. Is Death coming on a train because a train is faster? Because it can hold more victims? To me, this evokes the image of the industrialization of death in the 20th century (i.e., the trains filled with people heading for concentration camps in Nazi Germany). Probably not what the writer had in mind, but that's what it evokes in me. |
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| Jurassic 5 – Concrete Schoolyard Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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My favorite line from this one is: "Killing the first born of lyrical Yul Brenners". A classic rap boast! (In the 1956 film The Ten Commandments, actor Yul Brenner played the Pharaoh. The death of all of Egypt's first born males was of course the 10th and final plague brought down by God on Egypt (the Pharaoh's son included)). |
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| David Bowie – Panic in Detroit Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I agree, a brilliant apocolypic song. Guitar and drums are relentless, and I love the imagery of the lyrics. Plus, Bowie follows Chekhov's dictum, that if you introduce a gun in the first act, you must fire it by the third act. |
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