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| John Lennon – Cold Turkey Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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Lennon's personal assistant said that this song was inspired by John and Yoko getting food poisoning from eating leftover turkey.
No fooling. |
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| Ryan Adams – Oh My Sweet Carolina Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Ryan Adams sings about Carolina in many of his songs, and this song (and others) takes on different meanings when you consider that it is also a woman's name. He is traveling around, lost, distracting himself from life with random cities and meaningless activities, hoping to return home to her. |
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| Pavement – In the Mouth a Desert Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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SM dedicated this song to Sonic Youth on one live show (is it the one on Side B of S&E:L&R ?). I have always associated this song with the indie rock scene.
Underground, out of sight! |
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| Pavement – Feed Them to the 5 Lions (Linden) Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Linden CA is a small, insulated farming town about 20 miles east of Stockton CA, with one high school. Contrasted with Stockton, which is a larger diverse urban city, Linden is still very country and very white, with kids working on farms during the summer and football is a VERY big deal, like in other more rural areas across the country. Their mascot is, of course, the Linden Lions.
To me, this song is about that small town attitude towards high school football, that it is SO important to the community. As s7ugg1e said, it is about people not paying attention to the important things, or maybe even being able to ignore the fact that your small town is dying, and hide behind the pride of your local football team. |
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| Pavement – Cream of Gold Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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One of the angriest Pavement songs, how the singer is dead, a zombie, even, and wanders through a world of death created from his heartache and projected outward through his eyes that view a world without color, with black lemonade and even dreams are stripped of all hues but beige, even his blood that spills is not red but beige. Zombie city, man, a post apocalyptic zombie city, all because of her. |
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| Pavement – Unfair Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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A beautiful, drunken screaming ode to NorCal, meant to be shouted out of the sunroof while speeding through the Delta on a cool, summer evening.
Lyric correction? - "To the last psychedellic band, from Stockton, Northern Cal, South of Sacto, Northern Cal" is the way I have always heard it. Pavement is from Stockton, after all, not Sacto (Sacramento). |
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| Pavement – Greenlander Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This song is about the performances of rituals and ceremonies to bring about a brief glimpse of Spring, where we celebrate life and growth. Like in a cold winter, the singer is alone at night, performing rituals in his head in the hopes that he can summon back his true love, who will come like the Spring but will leave again for his desire to retreat back into te solace of the cold of winter will return. And the cycle goes on. |
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