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| The Family Band – Moonbeams Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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> As for the part about "this book" being "two pages deep, no pictures, no
> screens", I'm not sure what to make of that. Would love to hear someone else's
> theory.
The book represents the narrator's self-image. He has no future or past - only two pages - the present. He's a pretty sad guy, a bit of a loser who has idolized some female and put her up on a pedestal like she's a goddess rather than treating her like an equal or a human. |
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| Smog – Let Me See the Colts Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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it's about enjoying the simple and beautiful things in life. Horses sleeping, dew-dappled branches, sitting on a fence with someone, etc. and putting aside "thinking about the future" since "the all knowing all seeing eye is dog-tired"........ |
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| Bill Callahan – Diamond Dancer Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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He's simultaneously observing someone else dance and watching a metamorphis.
The bass line and stattaco violins suggest disco - often considered a self-indulgent music - and the lyrics about "dancing all by herself and not minding" also reinforce that. Is the act of turning yourself into a diamond and giving the world your light suggest something that Callahan is going through. His name change from (smog) to Bill Callahan suggest a change from conceptual, indirect art to a more direct singer-songwriter model. |
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| The All-American Rejects – It Ends Tonight Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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It's about when some evil robots steal your baby and hold it on on their base station and while you're a robot too your boyfriend is a human and so you both plan a mission to infiltrate evil robot base station and get the half-robot, half-human baby back. So the evil robots kidnapping of the baby ends tonight, it ends tonight. |
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| The All-American Rejects – It Ends Tonight Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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It's about when some evil robots steal your baby and hold it on on their base station and while you're a robot too your boyfriend is a human and so you both plan a mission to infiltrate evil robot base station and get the half-robot, half-human baby back. So the evil robots kidnapping of the baby ends tonight, it ends tonight. |
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| Bob Dylan – Thunder on the Mountain Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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What's that? Is that the sound of Dylan laughing at us all trying to make sense of the absurdity of the song and its lyrics? This is Dylan laughing not just at that but at his critics and people who have put words in his mouth or tried to make him into something he isn't. A few years ago, the press went gaga over Alicia Keys, declaring her, like Dylan, Springsteen and Prince, lo so many years ago, the great saviour of pop music. This of course, is dumb - you shouldn't look for saviours in pop music. Of course all those critics are obsessing over the references to Alicia here (lol). Of course, she didn't turn out to be anything like that. Dylan makes allusions to his past and the things he has done to confound the critics, fans and so forth - his turn towards Christianity, his (and likewise Alicia Keys) "sell-out", his critics obsession with his divorce (likewise his own) and so forth. As he says "she aint no angel and neither am I" - and he goes on to condemn everyone and says he "doesn't give a damn about your dreams" - Part of the song is sung in the voice of these critics, fans and people who looked towards him as their saviour - their false bravado, piety - secular and otherwise. In the end, their yammering and blather amounts only to "Thunder on the Mountain" -- he even takes it further and relates the critical blather to the mass of offensive punditry so prevalent on cable TV and in politics ("all the ladies of Washington scrambling to get out of town"). Dylan sums it up in the last line - "for the love of God, you ought to take pity on yourself" |
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