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| Bright Eyes – Lime Tree Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I agree with most of your interpretation. I don't think the "some are ripe and some are rotten" is referring to the child being rotten. I think he means some of the memories of the event. He knows why the abortion was done and I have a feeling that he agreed to it. Although the "sleeping next to a stranger" part would indicate otherwise. However, if we go along with the idea that he did agree to the woman getting an abortion, then I think he is saying that he understands that it needed to be done and that it was the best decision, however, he is clearly mourning. I also think the part where he is "lost and found with every step he takes" is sort of the same thing. In all of his thinking, he at times feels at peace with the situation (or forces himself to believe he is at peace) and at times, the grieving comes back to him.
I understood the last part after recently braking up with my boyfriend. At times I convinced myself that it was the right thing to do, and then later I'd convince myself to call him and try to make up. And it just goes back and forth that way. Lost and found with each step. It makes so much sense once you've been there. |
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| Bright Eyes – Lime Tree Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I agree with most of your interpretation. I don't think the "some are ripe and some are rotten" is referring to the child being rotten. I think he means some of the memories of the event. He knows why the abortion was done and I have a feeling that he agreed to it. Although the "sleeping next to a stranger" part would indicate otherwise. However, if we go along with the idea that he did agree to the woman getting an abortion, then I think he is saying that he understands that it needed to be done and that it was the best decision, however, he is clearly mourning. I also think the part where he is "lost and found with every step he takes" is sort of the same thing. In all of his thinking, he at times feels at peace with the situation (or forces himself to believe he is at peace) and at times, the grieving comes back to him.
I understood the last part after recently braking up with my boyfriend. At times I convinced myself that it was the right thing to do, and then later I'd convince myself to call him and try to make up. And it just goes back and forth that way. Lost and found with each step. It makes so much sense once you've been there. |
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| Cold War Kids – The Wedding Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Dancing like he WORLD is ending and ?
I think this song is about a wedding guest who doesn't know how he feels about weddings, hence, his not really wanting to go "I got dragged to this wedding". Also, when he says "like it's so easy to know how you'll feel come anniversary" he is questioning how people settle down, wondering, how do they know that in a year or five years they will feel the same? He clearly doesn't know what love is, thinking he is in love with everyone and then no one. I think the "it's a crime" thing is referring to him being cynical at their wedding and he's thinking he shouldn't think that way. |
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| Bob Dylan – Farewell Angelina Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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These lyrics are pretty off.
And they're missing the stanza about the camouflaged parrot who flutters from fear when something he doesn't know about suddenly appears.
"What cannot be imitated perfect must die."
A lot of the other lyrics are wrong too unless I have a different version but I don't think I do. |
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| The Rolling Stones – Imagination Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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No comments? This song rocks! I guess there's no explanation necessary but it should still have more comments :D Some Girls is an awesome album! |
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| Cold War Kids – Audience Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Well the more that I've listened to it, I am starting to think he is talking about having sex. When you're sleeping with someone, they are your audience of one. I don't know the song just sounds so... sexy and I think this could be why. Just a thought, folks! |
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| Cold War Kids – Sermons Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Wow I was just reading Franny and Zooey and look at this excerpt spoken by Zooey to his mother in regards of whether to send Franny to a psychoanalyst:
"Listen to me now. If you can't or won't think of Seymour, then you go right ahead and call in some ignorant psychoanalyst.. You do just that. You just call in some analyst who's experienced in adjusting people to the joys of television and Life magazine every Wednesday, and European travel and the H-Bomb and the Presidential elections, and the front page of the Times and the responsibilities of the Westport and Oyster Bay Parent-Teacher Association, and God knows what else that's gloriously normal-you just do that and I swear to you, in not more than a year Franny'll either be in a nut ward or she'll be wandering off into some goddam desert with a burning cross inside her hands."
Okay that's a LOT of similarities to this song! This must have been an inspiration :) |
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| Tom Petty – Free Fallin' Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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when he played this in concert, he said "this is for all the guys out there who are cheating on their girlfriends tonight" then he said jk and started playing. :) |
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| Cold War Kids – In Harmony in Silver Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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i agree it has to do with being nostalgic about old times but he isn't sorry for not writing so i guess he's saying "those were great times and i loved you guys but now i'm in a new place and i can't drag the past with me." i believe the lyrics are a little off but i'm not sure :) |
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| Cold War Kids – Sermons Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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first time i heard this song it made me cry. nathan's voice is just so beautiful. i don't know what he emans in each and every line but i think i know what he was trying to say. man these guys are so damn good!! |
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| Cold War Kids – Audience Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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these guys are amazingggg i got to see them for free in san jose last week and they played this. i hadn't heard it before (i know i can't believe i forgot to get their new ep) anyways this sounds liek nothing i've heard before it's just sooo good. don't really get what he's singing about though? |
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| Bob Dylan – I Shall Be Free Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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that took me a while too :) bob is just brilliant. i wonder what else has gone over my head in some of his songs! |
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| Tom Petty – You Got Lucky Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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this is one of my favorite tp songs i thought there'd be more comments. i agree that the girl is trying to break up with him and he's telling her to go but then saying "BUT, remember good love is hard to find" and so he's telling her to go but i'm not sure that he means it. he really wants her to know that she got lucky and that she won't find anything like him again. i looooveeee the video. it has nothing to do with the songs but it's awesome! |
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| Tom Petty – Anything That's Rock 'n' Roll Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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This song is awesome!! Can't believe there aren't more comments. I mean i guess it's just a generic rebel rock song but it's one of the best!! Tom Petty is just amazing, man. |
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| Bob Dylan – Lord Protect My Child Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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"he's young and on fire
full of hope and desire
in a world that's been raped, raped and defiled
if i fall along the way
and can's see another day
lord, protect my child"
that's my favorite verse. he's saying how innocent and beautiful his young son is even thought the world he lives in has been "raped and defiled". this song is very touching although i'm not sure when this song was written (anyone have a better guess than between 61-91? lol so i'm not sure if this was written for his first son or before that or after he'd had more children... either way it's a beautiful song :) |
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| Tom Petty – Insider Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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wow! the whole time i've listened to this song (not very long since i'm 18 and just discovered my love for petty!) i've thought they were singing "heaven inside her" and i thought the title was just supposed to be spelled wrong. i know this sounds really dumb but i liked "heaven inside her" hahah anyways this song is beautiful even more so now that i know the lyrics |
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| Tom Petty – Honey Bee Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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wth are juju beads?? lol i think the way he sings "hurt" and "word" like tweety bird are what make it sound like he's talking about a kid. and what's the meaning of "'m the king of milwaukee... i'm the king of pomona?" |
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| Tom Petty – Southern Accents Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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this song is so beautiful. the first time i heard it was actually when i watched "runnin down a dream" and petty was singing it live :) i'm not from the south in any way (nor cal native here) but i love it nonetheless |
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| Bob Dylan – Love Minus Zero/No Limit Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I just had a thought: the line "she knows there's no success like failure and that failure's no success at all" has always struck me as confusing. What did he mean by that? I think that maybe he is talking about how certain sayings contradict each other. For example "absence makes the heart grow fonder" and "out of sight, out of mind". I'm not sure if he's saying that she's so wise that she has heard all of these things before and discounts it all or if he's saying that both sayings are true.
In the case of these lines, it is true that failures can become the greatest successes, but of course no one is ever fails intentionally.
Maybe she just finds the good in everything so she accepts whatever comes her way?
Hm...
Maybe he just thought it sounded cool.
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| Gordon Lightfoot – The Gypsy Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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woops looks like lightfoot may have been inspired in this song by bd if my theory hold true! hehe did not realize this came out in '68, sounds older... in a good way :) but bob DID mention lightfoot's work in an interview once.. |
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| Gordon Lightfoot – The Gypsy Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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this song is great, no comments? i love the imagery. my favorite part is the "leave your circus noise behind you" part. it immediately reminded me of bob dylan's "temporary like achilles" where he sang "lean into your hallway, lean against your velvet door. watch upon your scorpion who crawls across your circus floor"
i know the only similarity is the word "circus" but i know lightfoot was an inspiration of dylan's so i like to think maybe bd heard this song and thought "circus" as an adjective was cool.... i know i do |
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| Bob Dylan – Lay Lady Lay Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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it was a bob dylan cover band (i wanna say the byrds) who misheard it that way. they saw him backstage and asked him for some new songs and he said yeah i have one and sung this, they were confused about it and said basically "it's really nice but no thanks" bob didn't question them and recorded it himself :) |
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| Bob Dylan – Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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definitely about hookers. love this song! can't believe i didn't comment it already. and the bootleg 6 version is ORGASMIC. it's actually the only version i listen to. i'd delete the hw 61 version if it wasn't sacrilege. :P
my favorite lines are "if you're lookin to get silly,you better go back to form where you came. cause the cops don't need you and man, they expect the same" HA! |
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| Tom Petty – Crawling Back To You Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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this song is so beautiful, i could listen to it over and over again. my favorite verse is also the last. haven't we all been tired of being tired? i love the line "most things i worry about never happen anyways" it reminds me of when you're in loe and can't stop thinking about someone and naturally, you worry about some things "will he like this dress, will he like my cooking, blah blah blah" but then you never even see the person and so none of that stuff even gets a chance to happen... things left unsaid and undone. how sad. petty's voice is gorgeous in this song. |
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| Bob Dylan – I'm Not There Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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this song is so beautiful although i'm sure these lyrics are all wrong, (better than anything i could come up with though!), you don't even need to understand what he's saying here, yet you know exactly how he feels =(
he is so regretful, so hurt, so confused.
i wonder if bob even knows what he's saying here because honestly at some points, it sounds like he was just making things up lol but like i said, it doesn't matter. this is one of his masterpieces, and i can't believe there are no comments, sad. |
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| The Rolling Stones – Paint It Black Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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i read 8 pages and no one could explain the seagull line?! is that even what he says or is it "sea go"? super confusing... and i don't know how the hell anyone got the vietnam war meaning out of this maybe cause i haven't seen fmj... |
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| Bob Dylan – Feel a Change Coming On Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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i wonder why he changed "last part of the day" to "fourth part of the day". what is the fourth part anyways and how many parts are there? lol
i love this song and i think it basically means we are always changing-bob more so that the rest of us, it seems! haha
my favorite stanza is the one about dreams, it's so beautiful. |
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| The Traveling Wilburys – Cool Dry Place Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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for sure about petty's house fire. so sad. didn't he stay with dylan after this happened? man i wonder what they'r conversations must be like....
oh yeah back to the song-it rocks!! =)
"i had to go through hell to get those things up there" haha that's definitely a thought i would have after seeing my house burn down lol |
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| Miley Cyrus – Hovering Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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i actually like this song. i think it could be a lot better if the instruments were stronger or... something idk i can't quite pinpoint it |
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| Bob Dylan – Caribbean Wind Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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hear a voice crying "daddy," always think it's for me
i wonder what he means
i wonder what this song means |
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| Something Corporate – Konstantine Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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there are soooo many comments on this but i just wanted to point out (possibly for the 20th time) that the "standing in in her underwear" line may have been inspired by the last stanza of tom petty's "mary jane's last dance" |
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| Bob Dylan – Boots of Spanish Leather Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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poor dylan took it VERY personally that suze left to study in italy. this song is gorgeous. the first six verses are suze and bob talking and the bob takes off with what he thinks about her leaving and how it must mean she doesn't care about him. it's a very sad song. he was heartbroken =(
the line "i don't know when i'm coming back again, it depends on how i'm feelin" sticks out to me. who knows if suze actually said something this straight forward, but i thought of it as bob's impression of how she felt nonchalant about their relationship and didn't really give a rat's ass about bob. i don't think that's true at all. suze just wanted some freedom, she was young after all. how many girls would leave BOB DYLAN in his prime? she was very self assured. |
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