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| Ween – Mister, Would You Please Help My Pony? Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I heard that one of the two (Gene or Dean) did acid and the other one went to the store, and upon returning home from the store, found the one that did acid in the fetal position on the floor repeating "Mister would wou please help my pony".
Interestingly enough, whichever member of the band went to the store hapned to see an article in a magazine or newspaper involving spinal meningitis. And so, two of the songs on Chocolate and Cheese were born. |
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| GWAR – Anti-Anti-Christ Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Yeah, I think the idea is that they are agains the anti-christ because they dont think he is all he is cracked up to be. That doesn't mean they are for christ though...thats just not GWAR's style. |
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| Clutch – Ghost Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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The part about the reposetion of the silver eyes is probably refering to the practice of puting coins over the eyes of the dead in order to pay the ferryman to take them across the river styx. The fact that the ghost comes back may have something to due with the fact he couldnt cross the river into the land of the dead because he couldnt pay the ferryman, so his soul remains where he was buried, in the potter's field. |
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| Neil Young – Old Man Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Yeah, I have a recording of this song where Neil states that the song is about the foreman on his ranch. Neil says "This song I wrote about a ranch, I live out on a ranch in California. I just bought it a while ago from these two lawyers and there was an old man living on it. I don't know if you have things like that here, like, foremen on ranches." and it goes on from there. Either way, this song is great and I can see why people think its about a fath-son relationship, I did untill I heard otherwise from Neil himself. |
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| The Tragically Hip – Tiger The Lion Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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John Cage was an experimental music composer who attempted to put Zen Buddhist beleifs into practice through the music he composed. John Cage is actualy quoted as describing his music as "purposeless play" which is where Downie gets this lyric. Cage is also quoted as saying that the purpose of his music is "not an attempt to bring order out of chaos" which Downie also touches on. Cage also stated that his music is meant to "simply to wake up to the very life we are living, which is so excellent once one gets one's mind mind and desires out of the way and lets it act of its own accord.".
This last point is what I think Gord is really trying to get at, the fact that Cage didn't make music to create masterpices, but simply to get people to realize how beautiful the world around them is when we actualy stop to apreciate it.
However, I think downie tries to go deeper with this by using the military analogy. In the first chours, Downie is talking about "serving the song" (which I assume is refering to buying in to what the theory that Cage had about the beauty of life if we let it happen on it's own) and follows this by saying "walking the range". In the second chorus however, Downie changes "walking the range" to "bombing the range". I think what Downie is trying to get at here is that while it can sometimes be good to "serve the song", as he puts it, (meaning to let the mind act of it's own accord) at other times, leting our mind act of its own accord and not questioning where it might lead us can be dangerous. But thats just one man's opinion. |
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