| Erykah Badu – Next Lifetime Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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In the short dialogue before the song (about 0:21) does the man really say: "I see myself as being the chief rabbi", and the woman reply: "That's really beautiful"?! |
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| Iron & Wine – Sundown (Back in the Briars) Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Very intriguing lyrics. Just no idea what they mean! Any idea anyone? Samuel Beam (aka Iron & Wine) is from Chapin, South Carolina. There is a song by Iron & Wine, Caught In The Briars, has the same "briars" in the name and it contains a similar line: Lay down beside her. See http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107859449192/ More than that I just have no idea. |
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| Vashti Bunyan – Girl's Song In Winter Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| Note also that true to gender stereotypes the freedom for the man is to leave the relationship and for the woman it was that young love with him. He is free now of her and she is alone not free. | |
| Vashti Bunyan – Girl's Song In Winter Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Such a beautiful and sad little song. More of a fragment. So very Vashti Bunyan. As far as I can know this is not autobiographical. Appears in her album "Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind – Singles and Demos 1964 to 1967" released in 2007. The "promised fruit" could be the freedom that the woman gives and does not have herself but from the next stanza, telling the story of the birth, it could also be the birth of the child, the "fruit" of the womb, which would "ripen into pain". "I wish that ... the snow in the air lie on my grave". Is such a touching, fascinating line. Expressing a depth of sadness in such a few little words. One can feel time becoming unfrozen, the snow that was seemingly suspended, frozen in the air, falls down. That movement of the snow from the air to the ground, to the grave, is almost instantaneous, and so inevitable. It is like she asks for nothing. She gave freedom. She raises a son alone. And she needs nothing but a quiet death in return. Maybe reminiscent of the poem Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep, "Do not stand at my grave and weep ... I am the softly falling snow". |
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| Red House Painters – Make Like Paper Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| Chamblee-Dunwoody Way is in Atlanta, GA where Mark Kozelek relocated. | |
| Jackie Greene – Don't Mind Me, I'm Only Dying Slow Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This one of the greatest rock lyrics. Those four lines encapsulate a whole story just by themselves: "I met a gambler who did nothing but lose all day He had love in his arms but he let her slip away And all he ever wanted was to give her a win But all she ever really wanted was him" Masterful. Brilliant. So moving. The restrained music just flows. Pure greatness. |
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| Tom Petty – Ways To Be Wicked Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| A song with very unsubtle sexual tones ("stick it in") and probably a sado-masochistic reference although that might refer to the pain of a relationship. Not a favourite lyric of mine! | |
| Rilo Kiley – Portions for Foxes Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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It's from Psalm 63: "Those who want to kill me will be destroyed; they will go down to the depths of the earth. They will be given over to the sword and become portions for foxes. But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by God will glory in him, while the mouths of liars will be silenced." |
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| Peter Murphy – Blinded Like Saul Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Seems to be some Biblical or religious references - "Is there fruit on our tree? Is my faith ... " - and some references to oral sex - "Take me tip toe in the sky", "Drink me like a river" - other than those no idea what is happening here! BTW AFAIK the Biblical Saul was not blinded (did commit suicide though). | |
| The American Analog Set – It's All About Us Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Such a beautiful touching song. The lyrics and melody and instrumentals are so well enmeshed. So simple so perfect. | |
| Jackie Greene – Don't Mind Me, I'm Only Dying Slow Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Came across Jackie Green at http://www.finetune.com/playlist/1371302. This is a stunning song and the lyrics are first class. All about the emptiness of life and the importance of love. Lovely ending lines, in fact lots of lovely lines. Surprised I am the first to comment on the great song. Real poetry. | |
| Mark Kozelek – Love At First Feel Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Great music. The lyrics are awful. Very insensitive even macho, totally out character for Mark Kozelek. How many times can you sing the same line? It was moderately clever/funny the first time, by the third you are sick of it and by the 20th (I didn't count but I don't think I am exaggerating) you just hit the FF button. | |
| Red House Painters – Silly Love Songs Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| When I heard this cover I was just bowled over. What a great version. Loved the original, love the copy. | |
| Bob Dylan – Love Minus Zero/No Limit Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I love this song very Dylanesque. I contains lots of complex, contradictory messages, eg "She knows there's no success like failure / And that failure's no success at all"! Every stanza has the same structure, description and imagery, and in just the last 2 lines the reference to the lover. Why the raven in the penultimate line? The raven is a symbol of ill-omen and the dark! Note the phrase: "Yet she's true, like ice, like fire" and that line: "My love she's like some raven". In A Song of Ice and Fire (a series by US author George R. R. Martin) the raven is used to convey messages. | |
| Joni Mitchell – Hejira Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| in Arabic, Hejira means migration (in Hebrew, Hagira) the movement of people. It is also has a religious meaning, Muhammad fleeing Mecca to Medina is the Hejira. the Haj is the pimgrimage of the Muslim to Mecca and the wife of Abraham, Hagar, is called Hajarah in Arabic. Mitchell's travels are for her a spiritual movement acting on her sole. | |
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