| Townes Van Zandt – Kathleen Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I take a more literal view of the song. I think Kathleen is an old girlfriend or something, and she's dead, and he's thinking about walking out into the ocean to kill himself so he can see her in the hereafter. Thinking of the last verse especially in that way, it makes perfect sense. | |
| Neil Young – Till the Morning Comes Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think this song is about a guy who is only waiting until the morning comes. | |
| Townes Van Zandt – Rake Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I think "rake" in this song means "to search." The narrator spent his youth being reckless and seraching for something. Based on the subject matter of some of Townes' other songs (Highway Kind, If I Needed You, Two Girls, et. al.), I'd say it's not a huge leap to assume that the something the narrator of this song is searching for is a real human connection. And in the final verse it sounds like he's found someone he wants to "settle down" with, and he does settle down, albeit reluctantly, and leaves his youth behind. | |
| John Lennon – Working Class Hero Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| "A Clockwork Orange" doesn't have anything to do with people being fed ideas through transmitters. It is about the government using its power to keep people stupid, but there's nothing about transmitters in there. I just want to clear that up. | |
| Bob Dylan – You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 version) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This version is a million times better than the Basement Tapes version. Does anyone know what key the harmonica is in? This is such an obscure song that none of the Dylan tab sites have this version. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Blinded By The Light Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think this song has something to do with Plato's Allegory of the Cave. | |
| Simon and Garfunkel – A Most Peculiar Man Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| That is an interesting angle, ilovetorun. I hadn't thought of that. Kind of adds another dimension to both songs. | |
| Bob Dylan – Percy's Song Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I just have to say something about this song because its so great and it deserves a comment. TIs one of my favorite lesser-known Dylan tracks. Its meaning is pretty straightforward really, its about how "justice" can be quite unjust at times. | |
| Marilyn Manson – The Fight Song Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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the line "cut our wrists like cheap coupons..." sounds to me like a thinly veiled reference to the following verse from leonard cohen's "dress rehersal rag" You can still find a job, go out and talk to a friend. On the back of every magazine there are those coupons you can send. Why don't you join the Rosicrucians, they can give you back your hope, you can find your love with diagrams on a plain brown envelope. But you've used up all your coupons except the one that seems to be written on your wrist along with several thousand dreams. as you can see, both allude to cutting one's wrists as if they were cutting coupons. interesting, no? |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayit'sworldwouldfallapart Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Brady wasn't the guy who shot Reagan, he was a Reagan staffer who got hit and is now paralyzed because of his wounds. The Brady Bill is gun control legislation, but I'm not sure of the specifics of it. The guy who shot Reagan was John Hinckley Jr. | |
| Aimee Mann – Dear John Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I think that "number's come up" means that John was drafted, and sent to Kuala Lumpur, and Caroline at some point tries to contact him, but "somebody stationed" there says "he thought you went out" meaning that John is probably out cavorting with local women, or at least that's what Caroline is probably thinking at this point. | |
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