| Bob Dylan – Tangled Up in Blue Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Centuries be damned, it's gotta be La Vita Nuova--I came to the same conclusion thirty years ago. I've always thought that was too direct for this elliptical song. Suggested replacement for "Written by ... century": "Written by a saint on a chocolate bar On the South Side of Calvary" |
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| R.E.M. – Man On The Moon Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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The song is about three ways of looking at the world: 1) religious Moses / Egypt / St. Peter's 2) scientific, maybe "flat" reality Newton / Darwin, maybe the truck stop 3) Stipe's preference; Kaufmaneque irony--the game--goofin' on Elvis We know that men landed on the moon & that Elvis & Andy are dead. But it's sometimes fun to pretend they aren't. Kinda like pro wrestling, no? |
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| Don McLean – American Pie Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I always thought that "Lennon read a book of Marx" was an allusion to Richard Lester's "A Hard Day's Night": the obvious pun is that John studied Groucho just as Vladimir had studied Karl. So it's 1964. A couple lines earlier, the cover of "Freewheelin"--the coat borrowed from Dean--marks those lines as May 1963. One could force a reading that "No verdict was returned" refers to the Oswald assassination, but I think that's a bit much.... |
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