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Foreigner – Feels Like the First Time Lyrics

18 years ago

This song could be taken quite simply as being about sex, but I don't feel that's the alpha and the omega on the interpretation list. As far as I can tell, this song could simply mean that it feels like the very first time in a relationship - as so often that first good relationship feels so perfect you think you're just bound to be married with that person for the rest of your life. When he's with her, it doesn't matter how many failed relationships in the past, this feels like the first relationship he's ever had, and he feels like a teenager who's been hit by love for the first time, and is thunderstruck, as they call Michael Corleone in the Godfather. Of course, taking this song as meaning sex would be correct as well. But I think it could be either, myself.

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Nirvana – Dumb Lyrics

18 years ago

Not that the thinking may be wrong, I want to caution everyone from reading into Nirvana lyrics as leading up to Kurt Cobain's death. While maybe they do, I also feel that knowing the end of the story may shape people to see meanings out of songs that were never intended. I can see this song about feeling different, but that doesn't necessarily have to be different in a depressed way. I'm more interested myself in the dumb/happy connection. They say ignorance is bliss, so perhaps Cobain is commenting that happy people seem to act like bumbling fools - fools in love tend to seem very childish to many of their friends but are having the greatest time in their life. So are you happy or just dumb? I don't know, maybe it's something : )

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Enya – Someone Said Goodbye Lyrics

19 years ago

To me, this song is about someone who was let go in a relationship. They loved the other person so much that the relationship's end devastated them. How can they love ever again? ("Why a broken dream can never fly?") Why would such a great love end? ("But you don’t know why.") Why can't they be back together? ("All the time you keep believing,"). The person cannot let go of the thought of the relationship. It would hurt too much to do so. The speaker doesn't quite understand why this is so, hence the repetition of "I don't know why."

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Def Leppard – Promises Lyrics

19 years ago

I agree with cubbyblues. I am conflicted as to whether the speaker is lying to the girl or saying that everything he said by accident was true, he just hadn't meant to say it. Maybe it's just me really preferring the second one, but after listening again I think it is more a good old-fashioned love song. The vocals just tell me that he's being truthful. And towards the end he says it differently, such as "I wont say a single thing, darling, that you can't believe. You've gotta believe it babe!" And he says it with different vocal inflection that suggests that he's telling the truth. But, like I said, I prefer it to be that way, because then its a sweet love song you could sing to your girlfriend : )

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Def Leppard – Two Steps Behind Lyrics

19 years ago

It does seem stalkerish if taken literaly, but I think the music is too soft for it to mean the guy is stalking someone. The voice isn't dark, or angry. The vocals are calming, which agrees much more with the idea that this is either a song about a lost love where the woman just can't forget the guy, and he's hoping she'll return to him or a guy telling a friend or girlfriend that no matter what he will always be there. Personally, I prefer to take the song as meaning that he'll always be there for her, when she bites off more than she can chew in life and realizes that she "can't have it all." When that realization hits her, she might need to "turn around," and he's there to support her.

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Alice Cooper – Billion Dollar Babies Lyrics

19 years ago

I read somewhere that this song was about little kids in horror movies, generally the ones that play the "bad guy" (i.e. Exorcist) and get loads of money from it. There was and still is a facination with a little kid being the enemy; the Blade television show on Spike, the remake of that one movie released on 6/6/06 (sorry, already forgot the name and it's been two months). If it is about little kids as bad guys in horror movies, that might explain why it sunds like a horror rock song, as Bonehead pointed out.

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Judas Priest – Solar Angels Lyrics	19 years ago
A trip on acid (or other drug) is pretty much a go-to for 50% of the songs out there... Without having seen a video I'd have to agree with you; it does seem it could be all three, but more of the first two.

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Judas Priest – Screaming For Vengeance Lyrics	19 years ago
....umm, except not caring about a song's meaning the most comon way for people to hate a particular singer or band - they take the music as it is, or interpret it wrong - and consider it worthless. Not caring about meaning is also a good way of getting little kids singing Spears crap.

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Judas Priest – Cheater Lyrics	19 years ago
The song is in first person, but that may be just to make the song more personal. It's possible the song isn't about somone who cheated on him, just about someone who cheated on an anomynous narrator.

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Accept – Balls to the Wall Lyrics	19 years ago
I might be wrong, but it seems this is about the oppressed rising up against their oppressors and being unstoppable. Good thing to believe in.

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Ozzy Osbourne – War Pigs Lyrics	19 years ago
The songs are different, as seen by the completely different lyrics between the Ozzy version and the Black Sabbath one. Sabboth's version was about how politicians and generals who start wars "just for fun" will all go to hell for their deeds. I guess this one might have a similar meaning, but the change in lyrics might mean that it has a somewhat different meaning as well.

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