| Sharon Van Etten – One Day Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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"...I did one flub but I don't remember where." CLASSIC. I can see where people might really hate this song, with Sharon's tremolo voice on the refrain. But I absolutely love it. This song grows on you quickly. |
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| Loretta Lynn – Miss Being Mrs. Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I know what you mean, gamelan. It's a beautiful, haunting song. There's a few songs on this album ('Van Lear Rose') where Loretta alludes to her husband ('This Old House', 'Story of My Life'). Dumb question, but is it a tradition for widows to wear their wedding bands on the other hand? |
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| Annie Lennox – Train In Vain (The Clash Cover) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I hear she performed this at the Grammys one year (1996?) I have both versions, and like them both equally well. Annie's version is more upbeat and funky; The Clash's is more lonely and sad, and fit the lyrics better, both are awesome. |
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| The Innocence Mission – Song About Traveling Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I can't believe NO ONE HAS COMMENTED! One of my favorite Innocence Mission songs. This nails how I feel when I travel. It's the wanderlust, but never content with the small slice of life you get to see: What else is there? What's over that hill? |
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| The Innocence Mission – Snow Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I can see Karen (assuming it's her) as a little girl outside in the snow. I wonder if that's her on the album cover? (front, not back, as I'm sure that's her on the back) |
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| The Innocence Mission – Small Planes Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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One of the saddest songs they've performed. I think I want to tear my heart out and cry for days every time I hear this song, but it's beautiful, and you can't help but listen and feel for anyone who's wanted to say the right thing, and just can't. We've all been there, and this expresses that frustration. God bless The Innocence Mission. |
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| The Innocence Mission – Bright As Yellow Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I just saw the video for this song for the first time (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA4ZfLzy1VM). They nail it - precisely fitting the sentiments of the song. This is my favorite Innocence Mission song, starting with the guitar chords at the beginning, which I can only describe as gorgeous. It sets the tone: this beautiful, mellow, mesmerizing sound. If you listen real close, you can hear someone tapping out the tempo at about 9 seconds into the song. I cannot hear this song and feel sad afterward. It's just impossible. So upbeat. Would that we could all shed our thorns... |
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| The Innocence Mission – Some Clear Joy Is Coming Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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What - no Innocence Mission fans on here? I think it's about anticipation, of waiting, of being in a bad (or good) moment, waiting for an even better moment to come. But what a beautiful song - utterly sublime. |
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| New Radicals – Mother We Just Can't Get Enough Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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You missed the very first line: "Make my nipples [hot / pop / hard]. Let's go!" Best song he did. |
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| Marvin Gaye – Sexual Healing Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Beautiful song, but it makes me sad to hear it, knowing it was Marvin's last big hit. It was his comeback, and a little over a year later, he was dead: shot by his own dad. | |
| R.E.M. – Monty Got A Raw Deal Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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bhoover247: D'oh! Totally missed the link to Monty Hall and 'LMAD'. Thanks for that! I wonder if the lines "I saw the ocean meet the man, I saw you buried in the sand" isn't a reference to the movie "From Here to Eternity", which Clift starred in. The movie has that famous 'beach scene' but it's between Burt Lancaster -- not Clift -- and Deborah Kerr. Maybe a double entendre or a euphemism for another event in Clift's life. |
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| The B-52's – Funplex Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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enny_buddy nailed it. It's like scenes from a mall. Song's very catchy, but then, most B-52's songs are! |
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| R.E.M. – Can't Get There From Here Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Liner notes from 'Eponymous': "Philomath is a town between Lexington and Crawfordville and used to have its own post office" | |
| Liz Phair – Johnny Feelgood Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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My favorite song on the album, slightly edging out Polyester Bride. I play it at full volume driving down the freeway and sing along. I especially like the very end where, almost out of earshot, she says, "I can't believe it". |
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| Chaka Khan – I Feel for You Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Yeah, it's a great song! Really a pick-me-up when I'm down. Is that Stevie Wonder on harmonica? I thought I read that somewhere. |
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| Blondie – Rapture Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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'Magnificent Seven': Great song, but it's not really rap. More like they're half-chanting, half-singing. Anyways, there were white and black groups rapping way before either The Clash or Blondie. Blondie just introduced it to the masses. Their video for 'Rapture' shows Debbie Harry introducing the music as 'rapping', and explaining a bit behind the technique. I remember thinking, "Yeah -- that's never going to catch on". Wrongo. Great video. Anyone know who the dude in white hat and tails was? |
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| ABC – Show Me Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Last two paragraphs should read: "Where are the diamonds? Where are the pearls? Where are the things that you took from this world? These are the ribbons These are the curls These are the things that you took from this world" |
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| Talking Heads – Burning Down the House Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Love the video to this song. One of my favorite TH videos, one of my favorite TH songs | |
| Fleetwood Mac – Songbird Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Possibly one of the most beautifully simple, and pure, love songs ever written. | |
| Fleetwood Mac – Don't Stop Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Forgot this, too -- Christine was going to call the song "Yesterday's Gone", and rumour has it that this was the original name for the album 'Rumours'. | |
| Fleetwood Mac – Don't Stop Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Christine wrote this for her ex-husband John (also a member of FM) after their marriage ended. I like the song, but really wish the Clinton campaign hadn't co-opted it -- even though they did it with the blessing of FM (so I hear). BTW, I'm a huge Clinton fan -- still wish they hadn't used the song... |
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| Fleetwood Mac – Hold Me Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I'll bite. Lyrics aren't that good, but the music is. |
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| Fleetwood Mac – Sara Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I remember the lawsuit. There were reports at the time that Stevie's handwritten notes of the song were so thorough that the other side either dropped the suit, or it was settled (in Stevie's favor). I was 14 when this song came out. It came out at a really, really good time in my life, which was followed by an awful, horrific period, where I had a nervous breakdown and thought of killing myself. Since then it's represented that good time -- that 'calm before the storm' which has always made it a bittersweet song for me (more sweet than bitter, though). My favorite Fleetwood Mac song by far, and the best song they ever did. Just timeless... I can't begin to tell you what an effect this song has had on me. It's so ethereal, so calming, so mysterious. |
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| Pete Yorn – Sense Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Sounds to me like a lopsided relationship, where one person puts their all into it, and the other person is just not as into it, or the other person, as they should be to make it a happy relationship. And he's (author? PY?) the one who's feeling duped -- "something won't forgive it all". I had a relationship like this, and this song is sort of the 'theme' of that relationship, so much so that the two are intertwined, and when I think of one, I immediately think of the other. |
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| Roxy Music – More Than This Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I agree, wild_thang. The acoustic ending (not on the single version -- fades out too quickly) is classic. I've loved this song for a looong time. Heard it on the radio in the early 80's, but didn't know who wrote it. Then at a dinner at a friend's house in '86, and she put on 'Avalon'. When I heard the song, I FREAKED out -- "who is this? I've been trying to find it!" Bought 'Roxy Music Street Life' in '96, but it's the short version (never mind, got it on MP3, too -- thanks, Napster!) Yes, bittersweet musings on life and love, and the impermanence of both... |
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| Steely Dan – Chain Lightning Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I'm stunned at the subject of this song. Guess I should have listened to the lyrics better. It's such a laid-back, feel-good sounding song. What a disjoint. | |
| Tori Amos – A Sorta Fairytale Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Every time I hear this song, I think of that one perfect day in every relationship I've ever had that has ended. It's bittersweet memories -- remembering the good, wishing that the rest of it had been good enough to keep the relationship, wondering if we worked hard enough to keep going, etc. | |
| R.E.M. – Monty Got A Raw Deal Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Clift was almost trapped in a sting in NYC at (I think) a gay bar, but he escaped before he could be arrested. "Strung up in a tree" may refer to Clift's auto accident where he almost died. He had just left Elizabeth Taylor's house, and upon hearing the crash, she ran to the accident scene and shielded him from the paparazzi. She threatened the photographers there if they photographed the accident scene. ("Hold your tongue") |
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| Tori Amos – I Can't See New York Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| "13,000 and holding" refers to what she's doing at the time: She's flying into New York. There's clouds, and they're 'holding' at 13,000 feet until they're cleared to land. She hears the purring of the (jet) engines. "From Here, no lines are drawn (can't see borders), no lands are owned". I'm guessing there's a tie to the jets that brought down the Twin Towers, also. A beautiful, haunting song. | |
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