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| Nellie McKay – Mama & Me Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I believe her mother assisted her in the studio while Nellie was recording this album. If so the line "who cuts the final edit" may be a reference to that. |
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| Ani DiFranco – Joyful Girl Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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"because the world owes me nothing/and we owe each other the world"
mickzzz, I think she is taking responsibility for creating the kind of world she wants to live in. She will work, and work hard, to effect positive change. She will not be a victim. On a personal level, the world of an intimate relationship depends on the sincerity and commitment the individuals bring to it. On a political level, a neighborhood, city or country depends on the participation of its members. Despite the faults of the world we have inherited, we owe it to each other to make things better. |
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| Alanis Morissette – Joining You Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I imagine that the friend, although intelligent and creative like Alanis, had very little success in school, work, etc. while by this time she had become a huge success. Yet if she were no more than her successes, she would be joining him in suicide. I think that's a beautiful gift of solidarity and a brilliant way to encourage us not to take anything too seriously and just appreciate being alive. That's all we really have regardless of outcomes. |
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| Alanis Morissette – I Was Hoping Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think this song is about the singer (Alanis) realizing that her friend (an older married man) is not on the same wave length she is and as a result their friendship will not be as meaningful as she "was hoping". They are out to dinner with his wife at an expensive restaurant (head waiter in his sixties) but most of the song consists of a conversation between the two of them and her internal reactions. The singer is growing in her spirituality (Buddhism?) but the man isn't very spiritual. She tells him of her vegetarianism; he scoffs and implies she's a hypocrite for wearing leather. He patronizes a restaurant with a sycophantic staff but that kind of treatment no longer has value to her. The friend believes humans are fundamentally evil; she does not believe in right and wrong or good and bad. He does not feel any compassion for a man who beat his child; she certainly does, and she also has compassion for the friend who lacks compassion. She was hoping for a like minded companion, but he is not that. |
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