| R.E.M. – Daysleeper Lyrics | 6 months ago |
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@[42:53953] steps Mis-hear of these lyrics "the ocean machine is set tonight - I'll squeeze the heavens and valentine..." "the ocean machine" makes me think of, like, a giant metronome white noise machine, the in and out of the waves reassuring the brain that the world's still turning and you're still here - allowing your brain to turn off and wander, to sleep and dream as it wil. |
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| R.E.M. – Daysleeper Lyrics | 6 months ago |
| @[PairOFish:53948] I hear it too. | |
| R.E.M. – Daysleeper Lyrics | 6 months ago |
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How I interpret, not line by line, but overall... The human psyche anymore is so bombarded anymore with images, news, worldwide occurrences and disaster, violence, war, starvation, personal situations and tragedies, WORK.... we are enslaved to the events of the day, and ruminations at night. The brain is made to filter and react to stimuli, and sleep is sacrificed while it FINALLY gets a chance to do its thing. ... "I cried the other night, i can't even say why". ... "Don't wake me.... so much". Really. Is it any wonder? |
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| R.E.M. – Bad Day Lyrics | 8 months ago |
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I've been listening to this song a bit after digging out my CD the other day. I see a definite political bent to the song that's alluded to in all these comments. My thoughts are kind of a little more general about it. ...We're sick of being jerked around ... we all fall down. It's been a bad day, please don't take a picture. It sounds more like a plea for mercy, asking that it when it comes down to THAT EVENT, none of us wants to be judged for the things we do on our "worse day", when we feel we've been wronged, and because we do all fall down, at some point. Interesting correlation between the reference to St. Vitus dance and being "jerked around" here. |
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| Barenaked Ladies – Call And Answer Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[42:52312] steps Conversely, the "I" in the song might be comparing himself to an avenging God/Messiah figure speaking to the "sinner", with an unconditional and everlasting love, and yet a tough love, and it's up to the other to "rebuild" the relationship they once had together. Regardless, there's no doubt (to me) that the religious overtones here ARE purposeful. | |
| Barenaked Ladies – Call And Answer Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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Just some thoughts that have finally bubbled their way to the surface of my brain, after listening to this song for 25 years. Steve is Jewish, and seems to have imbued a song about a rocky relationship, with overtones about a return of the supposed Messiah. "Crucify" (as in, Jesus), and "rebuilding" (as in, rebuilding the Temple).... From what I've heard of him through the years, music-wise and in other formats, he (apparently) doesn't seem to have much use for Christianity's beliefs, ridiculing them as a silly mythology regarding a single mother and her bastard child. It's interesting that he wants to use Jewish mythology with this particular song; the relationship compared to a (the) Temple, and his faith in this other hinges on their ability to "rebuild" it now that they've chosen to return, and being equally willing to crucify them for their faults. |
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| Barenaked Ladies – Light Up My Room Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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@[mashukitsune:52092] Huh. I always picture the towns surrounding Niagara Falls when i hear this song. I always assumed the falls played a part in its creation. |
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| Barenaked Ladies – It's Only Me (The Wizard of Magicland) Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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"I believe in monogamy..." lol. No. It's "I'm the ME in monogamy". |
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| Chris Squire – Run With the Fox Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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The whole Christmas album is absolutely glorious. I've been listening to it these past few days. This song (the last on the album) to me sounds more New Year than Christmas, more like "get ready, the past is gone, and here's the present/future, all coming to you in Technicolor now, the bad and the good and all of it, and it ain't for the faint of heart". The fox as the hunted (dogs baying at his heels) and yet running TO (chasing) the future, as much as running AWAY from (fleeing) the past - even understanding the bad to inevitably be found there as well. It's a really weird "hopeful" song. |
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| The Police – King Of Pain Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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@[42:48085] steps lol "From June 5-6, 2012, an exceedingly rare occurrence is to take place: from here on Earth, we will be able to see Venus cross in front of the sun, making itself evident as a small black spot slowly moving across the solar disk. This is among the rarest of astronomical events." |
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| Eels – Jennifer Eccles Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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Seems like i hear about four different voice effects in this particular song. A lot of choices purposely made in the delivery of it. I usually can't stand music purposely slowed and made (overly) dramatic. But this one I'm really fond of. Probably because I heard this before I ever heard the original. |
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| Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[Ragdoll2004:46557] Yeah? You think? Go read my interpretation of Along Comes Mary, that should really run afoul of your approval. | |
| Yes – Ritual (Nous Sommes du Soleil) Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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The angels/cherubs/aliens/demons gaze down at us all and laugh at us/love us/toy with us. Because, you know. That's what they DO. They are of the sun, not the earth. |
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| Barenaked Ladies – It's Only Me (The Wizard of Magicland) Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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Men Going Their Own Way. In every way. lol. They called it. Spot on. |
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| Lou Christie – Lightnin' Strikes Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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Maybe "lightning strikes" and a half-witted monster is born, incapable of thinking and without moral capability. You know. Frankenstein. Or irony of the old adage "lightning never strikes twice". Guess it does with this guy. |
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| The Association – Along Comes Mary Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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@[Tolinv:33378] The (rather troubling) words of the apparition of Garabandal: "Since my Message of October 18, 1961 has not been complied with and has not been made much known to the world, I will tell you that this is the last one. Before the chalice was filling now it is overflowing. MANY CARDINALS, MANY BISHOPS, AND MANY PRIESTS ARE ON THE PATH OF PERDITION AND THEY TAKE MANY SOULS WITH THEM. " So yeah, it's a comparison worth at least an observation. |
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| The Association – Along Comes Mary Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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@[Tolinv:33377] This is a point of this particular apparition: Besides the two "messages", the visionaries forecast a "warning", a "miracle" and a "punishment" (if people do not correct their ways). The warning is described as a momentary stopping of time around the world, with all people then seeing the spiritual condition of their souls, and how they should amend their ways. Within a year of the warning, a miracle will take place. The miracle will leave a permanent sign in Garabandal, which can be seen and photographed, but not touched. The "miracle" will occur between March and May. The "punishment," or "chastisement," is conditional upon how humankind reacts to the preceding "warning" and "miracle." |
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| The Association – Along Comes Mary Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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@[Tolinv:33376] Thank you. Thinking about the song today on the Feast of Lourdes. |
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| The Jesus and Mary Chain – Just Like Honey Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| Honestly, after all these years this song still brings one particular person to mind for me... Ronnie Spector. All the elements of the song, the beat. Her story (what I know of it). Etc. | |
| Yes – Awaken Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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I'm such a new Yes fan and so ignorant of the things that have informed their music ("The Singer", etc.) but I love this song so much now (and it took me so long to even be able to get through it). So this is how I relate to it, not line by line, but as a whole. A)I view it as the ultimate secular hymn. A hymn to the history and achievements of man and what we're capable of. Between the name of the album "Going for the One" and the design of the album cover, there's nothing on earth that it brings to mind so much as The Fountainhead. Man as master of all he sees and can create. B) Second interpretation, based on my apparent mishearing of a single line - "past a mortal as me" vs. what I've been hearing - "vast immortal as me"... "here we (not "I") can be".... a finding a place to rest, to pioneer. This colors my perception of this particular song. It almost seems on the surface to be related to the "Olias" storyline (the little I know of it). And odd.... flowing of identity from singular to plural. "Me" to "we" and back again. |
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| Yes – Close to the Edge Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[Gromit:31708] Don't you mean "tormato"es? ;) | |
| Yes – We Have Heaven Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[nomusician1:30663] I hear "moondog/March hare" (I can't hear "Do look around") but I also hear the "YES" proclamation, starting halfway through the song - at first I wondered what the hissing sound could be - YES he is here, YES he is here... |
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| Yes – Endless Dream: Silent Spring/Talk/Endless Dream Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Two voices, speaking two different thoughts. Rabin's voice - Cynicism, worldliness, dispair? Anderson's voice - Faith/love/hope/encouragement This song is so intriguing. It reminds me of Changes, in the skillful interplay of two voices conveying two different concepts in a single song. |
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| Barenaked Ladies – Serendipity Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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This has become my summer anthem for this year. I never thought much about it in the past, but now it just clicks perfectly. I'm listening to this whole album with a renewed appreciation for it. |
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| Steven Page – There's a Melody II Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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The most amazing song about writer's block that I've ever heard (maybe the ONLY one?). The song itself mirrors the creative process in its buildup, from the first spark of inspiration to incarnation. Making something out of nothing. Alternatively, it brings to mind Whitman's "Song of Myself". |
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| Paula Cole – Where Have All The Cowboys Gone? Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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@[ProfessorKnowItAll:26003] Exactly. Thank you. Where is my John Wayne Where is my prairie song Where is my happy ending Where have all the cowboys gone I've figured it out, I think. The first two stanzas and rounds of the chorus are the courting phase - where she sees "him" as the cowboy and a possible life together as "the goal" - the adventure to be had (her "prairie song" and her traditional "happy ending"). Everything following that is a statement about domesticity. The years go by, and now the adventure of traditional marriage and kids has worn thin and she's wondering what happened to the "cowboy" she ran away with. She might even be commenting on the emasculating effect domesticity (I think you originally used that term) has on him.... wondering where his "shiny gun" went. So there is irony there, but not the same irony I had commented on in my original interpretation. |
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| Lesley Gore – You Don't Own Me Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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@[kevwiz:24232] WTF. You wasted time to get on here to say this? What a pointless life you must lead. I hope this brought some meaning to it. |
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| Garth Brooks – Ask Me How I Know Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| Ah. Turns out he's not the author of the song. A little disappointing, but still a beautiful song and kudos to the author. | |
| Garth Brooks – Ask Me How I Know Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I'm kind of stunned, really, at how good this song is. It's like he never went away, and that seems to be kind of a rare thing once an artist has put it away and then decides to bring it back out again. |
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| America – Sister Golden Hair Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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"I been one poor correspondent, and I been too, too hard to find" Heh. Really? I've always heard it "I've been 1 part correspondent, I've been 2 (parts) too hard to find..." |
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| Joe Walsh – The Confessor Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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.... Huh. Yeah, this is a weird one. |
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| Steven Page – Here's What It Takes Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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What we once kept hidden from our parents Now we keep it hidden from our kids No second chances ever in this life Just another chance to make the same mistake twice Ow / Brilliant. This will be in my hands come Christmas. It wins the "must have it in my car" award. |
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| Eels – Devil's Dog Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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"Devil's Dog" really should have been the 13th song of Hombre Lobo. It would have balanced out the "shock and awe" side vs. the "aw, shucks" side of the album. |
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| Steven Page – I Can See My House from Here Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Lol. Oh no. Not really. "I feel like I've been here before. YOu know what happens when God closes a door. You think mortality's hell. He's boarded up the windows as well..." This concept sounds familiar. Also digging the "forget you were once divine" line too. Steven's feeling a little salty again, it seems. The Beatles stuff is cute though. |
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| Eels – Love of the Loveless Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| POV Jesus. At Gethsemane. :) | |
| Boston – More Than A Feeling Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| "i agree. although aside from the fact that it is about brad delp and his "lonely soul" escaping his life through music does anybody have a clue who marianne is? its actually marianne from gilligans island believe it or not." Interestingly enough, this kind of plays into my own turn of the song (as a woman). Marianne symbolizing a wholesomeness and beauty that one loses through years and experience. Also losing the feeling of being closer to the Divine (Mary). I see my Marianne walking away - a girl I used to know.... :) | |
| Steven Page – All the Young Monogamists Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| And truth feels like being skinned alive. But ya got to admire the bravery of the one holding the knife. | |
| Disturbed – The Sound of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel cover) Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I'm coming to terms with this cover of the song. When I first heard it it made me unreasonably angry. I couldn't listen to it. It sounded ridiculously melodramatic in comparison to the original, whose power lay in its mild and understated format, rather than making the song a dirge. But, ya know, the desperate sound kinda goes along with the desperate times(?)..... Simon wrote a (possible) prophecy. This band seems to sing about the sealed deal. |
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| Supertramp – Take The Long Way Home Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| After reading James Joyce's Ulysses, I think of that book whenever I hear this song. | |
| Eels – Wonderful, Glorious Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| Dear Prudence.... | |
| Saint Motel – My Type Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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This song seriously creeps me out. Sounds so stalkerish/rapey. :P |
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| Chris Cornell – Almost Forgot My Broken Heart Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Took me a moment to understand. This is the wrong song title (it's NEARLY Forgot My Broken Heart). Anyway. I believe that the theme here in the song is Eternal Recurrence, as best as I can understand the concept as I've read it. The idea of themes that play again and again throughout our lives. Not just behavioral, but in actual circumstance of environment. This seems (to me) to be a subject touched on by many artists. (Cindy Lauper - Time After Time?) The Seinfeld Snickers Bar episode (well, kind of the whole show, but this episode in particular) is an illustration of this concept, I think. When, without any seeming relationship to any other incident in the show, everyone begins eating their Snickers Bars with forks, something marveled at by the main characters. Something you can observe happening around you over and over again, each thing with no immediately apparent relationship to the other very similar occurrence. When it happens too often to just be called "coincidence", but you can't find a causal relationship, what do you call it? |
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| Neil Diamond – Holly Holy Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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A song of songs. :) |
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| Chris Cornell – Almost Forgot My Broken Heart Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| The lyric video for this is pretty awesome. It's nice to see some artistry put into the effort, something that expands the imaginative possibilities rather than limits them. | |
| Neil Diamond – Holly Holy Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[PianoDano:9648] I suspect this is the perfect song. :) Can any correlation be drawn between the title "Holly Holy" and the exclamation "Hallelujah", I wonder.... |
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| Andy Gramer – Good to be Alive (Hallelujah) Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| Even understanding this song's manipulation and calculation (I think it was DESIGNED to elicit certain emotional responses, on a nervous vs. cerebral level), I'm definitely not immune to the euphoria it brings when I hear it. :) | |
| Hozier – Jackie and Wilson Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[teaspill:8878] Thanks for this. I think this has become just about my favorite song on the album. Aside from the Osiris myth (to which I've already admitted my ignorance) I'm just knocked out by the way he expresses things so clearly. The fact that it so neatly ties into something more increases my admiration. |
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| Sublime – Doin' Time Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| This is a dangerous song to be listening to when driving dark country roads alone at night. Mesmerizing. It makes you want to close your eyes. | |
| George Ezra – Spectacular Rival Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Violence in the air, cuthroat stares, not "cut those stares". Sherbert dips, not "sugar dips". Mr. Brown, not "Mr. Ground". Disturbing song. Seriously. |
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| Bodeans – Good Things Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Don't know the Bodeans now, never knew the Bodeans back when, but I know this song. So great to hear it today. |
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