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Pink Floyd – Take It Back Lyrics

17 years ago

This is my favorite song... I think the song is meant to have an obvious meaning (a relationship with a woman) but that this is merely a metaphor for what the song is really about: mother nature. This idea seems to fit better with the music, explains why there are all the allusions to nature - the tides, the sea, the deep, the breeze, and pushing her to the limit/making promises that can't be kept refer to how we know we're messing up but still do it anyway. What really makes me love this song is how it links in with so many other ideas. I love Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams and he was good friends with David Gilmour. This album was named by Douglas Adams; he asked that Gilmour donate $25k to a fund to save the rhino, which Gilmour did.

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Modest Mouse – Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset Lyrics	17 years ago
I think the prom queen/cross-armed stance line just means he feels like the person who should be happy but isn't; he's in a great position and he's still bitter, which kind of makes him a jerk...like the cross-armed prom queen. Ties in with the title line too, talking shit about a pretty sunset...he's complaining about a life that's really not so bad.

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Men at Work – Maria Lyrics	17 years ago
Men at Work are seriously underrated...they made a lot of good songs besides Down Under. This is classic MAW, great music, great lyrics, completely under the radar.

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Iron Maiden – Hallowed Be Thy Name Lyrics

17 years ago

I haven't read all 4 pages, but I think most of you are misinterpreting this song. For one thing, there's an error in the posted lyrics: it's not "Don't believe that there never is an end" it's "Don't I believe that there never is an end?" The man in the song thinks he shouldn't be scared because he'll go to heaven once he's dead, and yet he is still afraid. He wonders why. By the end of the song he's figured it out: there really is no God, no heaven or hell, and this really is the end. He's known it subconsciously all his life and he finally realizes it.

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Rise Against – Chamber the Cartridge Lyrics	19 years ago
Yeah probably about the environment. I wonder if "An Invonvient Truth" was an inspiration for this...a very persuasive documentary by Al Gore about global warming, do yourself a favor and watch it.

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Pink Floyd – Cluster One Lyrics	19 years ago
I love how this starts the album. This song is like someone waking up from a long sleep and finally being at peace with the world. They've had their struggles and eventually they were just too much to take and the person conked out. Their body reset itself, and when they woke up they just understood. Wonderful song.

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Pink Floyd – On the Turning Away Lyrics	19 years ago
Amazing song. Nothing to add really, except that the live version on Delicate Sound of Thunder is one of the greatest live songs I've ever heard. Very powerful.

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Talking Heads – (Nothing But) Flowers Lyrics

19 years ago

I'm pretty sure he's being sarcastic. I think it's about the environment but more specifically about urban sprawl. People move to the countryside to get away from the bustle of the cities, but then they miss all their old conveniences and want the city life back. So all the chains spread out into the suburbs and the countryside and you get all these Pizza Huts and convenience stores...something people were moving away from in the first place. Brilliant song.

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