| The Rolling Stones – Mother's Little Helper Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I thought it was about dexedrine (also a yellow pill). You could get speed from the chemist back then and it's nickname was 'mother's little helper' (in the early 60s, it was.) Kids would nick it from their parents cupboard. | |
| The Rolling Stones – Paint It Black Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I always thought Mick was being tongue in cheek here (he wrote the lyrics, not Keith). You know, the music is kind of gloomy, so he wrote these gothic sounding lyrics to camp along with. I don't think it's about Vietnam. But it's also about the death of a love one. I think it's imagined though, not real. But then I don't know much about the Stones life. The character in the song thinks about suicide. Mick is just pretending to be another person though - it's like a dramatic monologue. |
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| The Who – Now I'm A Farmer Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Pete said it was a drug song? I don't get it... But then you have to ask what the farmer is growing... |
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| The Who – Now I'm A Farmer Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Pete said it was a drung song? I don't get it... But then you have to ask what the farmer is growing... |
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| The Who – Blue, Red And Grey Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| It's pantheism. It's also the Sufi doctrine of seeing God in everything, both ugly and beautiful. On a sunny, gorgeous day and also on a rainy miserable one, God is manifest. | |
| The Who – How Can You Do It Alone Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Pete really liked writing songs about masturbation. | |
| The Who – Naked Eye Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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A very underrated Who song. The message is quite simple though - being a rockstar looks pretty cool, the cars, the girls, but really no-one can see al the crap that's going on inside a guy's head while he's partying. |
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| The Who – Relax Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think it's also telling the listeners to relax and 'get into' the music. It works on two levels. | |
| The Who – Relax Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Pete is telling some woman to relax so can have sex with her. | |
| The Kinks – Till the End of the Day Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Baby, I feel good From the moment I arise Feel good from morning Till the end of the day This is a slightly sideways interpretation, I always thought this was about the manic phase of manic depression. Only hypomanic people feel buzzing happy every minute of the day. Ray Davies is bipolar, so I guessed it was about that. I also heard Ray just wrote a song around a few chords he liked, and that this is a throwaway number, no matter how enjoyable it is to listen to. |
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| The Kinks – Rosy Won't You Please Come Home Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Ray had a sister called Rosie in Australia who was married to a man who used to beat her up. She used to write heartbreaking letters to her family in England, and everyone wanted her to come home. | |
| The Kinks – This Time Tomorrow Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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One of my favourite Kinks songs. I t's part of the Lola vs Powerman concept, where the singer in the band is on the plane on tour, but he's so high above the world, he forgets all thencorruption that there is down there. Separated from it's concept, it's still a beautiful song. It helps me when I'm down. |
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| The Kinks – Rainy Day In June Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Ray loves the rain, and he loves walking around after a rainstorm in his garden, imagining he sees fairies and stuff. Weird man. He was born in June, so I suppose he went for a walk around his garden on his birthday and wrote this song or something. |
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| The Kinks – Rainy Day In June Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Ray loves the rain, and he loves walking around after a rainstrorm in his garden, imagning he sees fairies and stuff. Weird man. He was born in June, so I suppose he went for a walk around his garden on his birthday and wrote this song or something. |
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| The Kinks – Mindless Child Of Motherhood Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I thinks it's Dave being horrible to some girl he got pregnant, saying that's she's no fun anymore, now that she's had his kid. I could be totally wrong, but that's what it sounds like to me. This song needs a much better production - it's a good song, but it sounds terrible. |
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| The Kinks – Fancy Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Mind you, that's a lot of meaning to fit into a little song like this, primarily it's just Ray trying to write something Indian sounding. I think the lyrics just came up by accident while he was trying to get a hypnotic raga sound. Despite that, I still think the lyrics have some kind of meaning, even if it's not the main point of the song. | |
| The Kinks – Fancy Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It's about how the person's soul has no gender and that real spiritual love makes two people the same in spirit, regardless of their gender. I think that's what the first verse is about. I think it's saying that everyone has this core to them which is indentical to everyone else's core, but that's not what we see when we look at someone. We just see what's in our own fancy, which means we just see what we want to see, unless we really love a person. |
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| The Kinks – Days Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Ray said in his autobiography that this was about a woman he was dating, but she ended up leaving him because he was a drunken mess and his wife was jealous. It's Ray's goodbye to her. To me it's always sounded like a funeral song though. It has made me cry in the past. |
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| The Kinks – Big Sky Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I always thought this was about religion. Ray is saying that people cry to God about their problems, but God is too big and mighty to care about them. He's saying that God isn't something that intervenes in people's life, but something that's ineffable and intangible, so praying won't help. I disagree, but it's a cool song. |
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| The Kinks – Art Lover Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It's a first person song done from a paedophile's perspective. Ray is also saying that artists use a lot of dodgy sexual overtones in their work, but we let them off because it's art. The narrator here is stalking a little girl around a park and using the excuse that he only wants to paint her. He may well be a paedophile, but the listener does feel rather sorry for this man, because the song sounds so innocent and is done with such pathos. |
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| The Kinks – (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It's about the Winter of Discontent in Great Britain in 1979-1979, when this song was written. There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike Got to be a superman to survive There were tonnes of strikes in that year, at that brought Marageret Thatcher into power. Ray was aying that the world was so f-ed up in 1979, that you needed super-powers to get things done. |
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