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| Pink Floyd – Jugband Blues Lyrics
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This song is really just filler material, IMO. It's at the end of the album, and then the lyrics just sort of trail off. It's funny because it's completely useless but it sort of works. |
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| Pink Floyd – See-Saw Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think it's a song about childhood friends, presumably a brother and sister who had lots of fun together. My best description for this song is that it's very dream-like. |
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| Counting Crows – A Long December Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This song got stuck in my head out of nowhere like a month or two ago. It's definately a winter song; I kind of agree with Ashleigh9169, but as I go over the song, I can see everyone else's point. Hindsight isn't always 20/20; that's called subterfuge. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Thirty Three Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Well my impression is that it's a song about growing up. It makes me think of highschool graduation for some odd reason. Ethilien's explanation sounds reasonable enough. |
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| Norman Greenbaum – Spirit In The Sky Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This song rocks, the last line kind of says a lot
"Oh, set me up with the spirit in the sky"
and the whole "friend in Jesus" thing goes waaay back. This song always kind of lightens the mood a little. |
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| Gordon Lightfoot – If You Could Read My Mind Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Here's one possible alternate explanation
Well during the first part, she's reading his mind; he's painting an image of someone who's trapped in every way. In other words, he's powerless or at least thinks he is (hence, comparing it to a movie, as not being real), and she can't see it because she can't really see him.
Then he's reading her mind, and she sees him as this great and wonderful person, not realizing how vulnerable he truly is. The powerlessnes here seems like more of a pretense to the conflict of the whole song (ironic in how it's constructed similar to a movie).
This part of the song involves the actual conflict. They obviously stop seeing eachother, and maybe harsh words are exchanged. I'm guessing she's the movie queen, "playing the scene" that he owes her everything. He figures she doesn't really love him, and maybe writes this very song to try and figure it out. The whole way she's portrayed makes it sound like more of an infatuation she had; that she wasn't a "rainy day person" who wasn't there to free him from his powerlessness, because she couldn't even see him or thought he was some sort of a hero who could fix anything. |
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| Gordon Lightfoot – Rainy Day People Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Yeah I agree, it's a great song and you're probably right about the friendship thing. The rainy day people are people who really care about you no matter what's going on in your life; they take the good with the bad. |
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| Gordon Lightfoot – Cotton Jenny Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I always thought Cotton Jenny was either his wife or someone he danced with quite often. This song always kind of made me smile; he ain't got a penny for her to spend but they're still having fun. |
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| Gordon Lightfoot – Canadian Railroad Trilogy Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Well, this song is definately about building railroads in Canada and my impression is that it's a tribute to the people who helped build the railroad. The one line "open her heart, let her lifeblood flow" sounds like he's saying that by using the earth's resources to bring life they're kind of paying tribute to her in a way. I mean what's the point of all the metals and foodstuffs if it just sits there? That's the sort of thing this makes me think of. |
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| Gordon Lightfoot – Circle of Steel Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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It might be figurative, but I was thinking about it and he might literally mean some people waste their money trying to get rich by gambling, instead of helping out the poor with that money. |
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| Creedence Clearwater Revival – Wrote a Song for Everyone Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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they had a thing on VH1 a while back about this band and talked about the album "Green River," and with this song they said it had to do with him not being able to see or even talk to his wife when they were on tour. The majority of the song talks about injustices, and I guess it was his way of making up for the only injustice he really cared about: not even being able to talk to her. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Walking In Memphis Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Yeah some of the lyrics are wrong, like the part about gabriel should be muriel. I like the bluesy kind of feel to it, and the gospel women at the end of the song are cool too. I think it's safe to say he went to Memphis some time and really enjoyed himself. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Hungry Heart Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I always thought this song was about just wanting to be loved. There's a hint of irony though in how he says he does love her but then outright leaves her. He's using the phrase 'hungry' and the general message of the song is that he'll never be full. I think it's that 'doo-wop' sound that probably made this song stick out in the first place. |
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| Phil Ochs – When I'm Gone Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I didn't know that about Phil, that is such a shame; this song is so very beautiful and unique. It has sort of a somber pick me up kind of dualistic thing going on. |
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| Nirvana – Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think the meaning of this is obvious; Kurt didn't think Jesus should have had to die. It might be related to how he used to identify himself more closely with Buddhism (hence the name of the band, too), and probably felt Jesus would have made a better teacher than a human sacrifice. |
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| Liz Phair – Supernova Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Well I think it's a ass-kicking love song; there's this guy she really digs. This song has some of my favorite lines that are just hilarious: "and your lips are sweet and slippery Like a cherub's bare wet ass" and "Your kisses are as wicked as an F-16." |
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| Counting Crows – Einstein On The Beach Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think it probably refers to Albert Einstein, being as it uses both names in the song. I think he's referring to intelligence in general, and how people kind of put Einstein up on this pedestal like everything he did is so great because he comes up with a theory of light that results in the atomic bomb. |
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| Counting Crows – Rain King Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think he's talking about getting drunk. The part about not wanting to go outside might be referring to some woman telling him to stop and acting like she's his mother, maybe trying to get him to go to church or something too. |
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