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| Grateful Dead – Touch Of Grey Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Dennis McNally's book notes that the first two verses especially are a great little metaphor for the morning after a night of cocaine: "Must be getting early, clocks are running late" because you've just wasted a load of time, and you're crashing so bad that the "morning sky looks so phony". "Draw the curtains, I don't care" at first sounds cranky, but of course you realize it's the crashing, and "it's all right" a few hours later...creepy. |
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| Grateful Dead – Mexicali Blues Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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"When the devil wants to take it all away" is an excuse for a turn of events that the protagonist doesn't even know why he started out on in the first place. He went to Mexicali, got laid by a 14-year-old, then a woman who essentially tricked him into murder. Oh, and for what it's worth, "Mexicali Blues" is a somewhat-known euphemism for chlamydia. |
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| Grateful Dead – Hey Pocky Way Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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The Meters version has 2-3 extra verses, and they adapted the whole song (including the phrase "Hey Pocky Way") from New Orleans street chanting. The meaning is kind of self-evident, I think: Feel good music in your soul makes your body wanna rock and roll. Not very complicated. |
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| Grateful Dead – Bertha Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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The song itself is a straightforward relationship plaint, but the origin of the name "Bertha" is actually an old, large floor fan at 710 with a tendency to wobble so bad that it would haul ass across a room. |
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