| Bob Dylan – House of the Rising Sun (The Animals cover) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This is NOT an Animals Cover. The Animals nicked the arrangement from Dylan, who in turn nicked it from another folk singer, who had rearranged a traditional folk song. | |
| Bob Dylan – Cross the Green Mountain Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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A wonderful song, almost worth sitting through Gods and Generals for. But "the rapper's land lies for miles behind"? Really? I've listened to that line carefully again and again, and I'm sure he's saying "the ravaged land lies for miles behind". Given that the latter would make, well, sense. |
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| Laura Marling – Ghosts Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Guy has had relationships which ended, meets new girl. She's like, don't think too much of me (I'm interpreting "fall to your knees" in the thankful/worshipy/in awe sense) because this relationship will end too. C'est la vie, get over it. It's probably got a much nicer message than that, but meh. |
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| The Smiths – These Things Take Time Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Scared virgin falls in love with more experienced man. However, the man is in the prime of his sex life, and the virgin feels he will seek better sex rather than "train" a virgin. The guy has direction, and its to fulfill his sexual needs to the best of his ability (You know where you came from/You know where you're going/You know where you belong). It's a depressing song fitting of the Smiths, as the virgin loves the man so much but feels that he puts sex over love. | |
| The Smiths – Barbarism Begins at Home Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The meaning of the song is similar to that of "The Headmaster ritual". You may well have picked up on the fact that Morrissey is quite an individual, and depending on your experiences in school you may have discovered that some teachers really don't like those kind of students (but some love them, so no offence to teachers in general). There's an interview where Morrissey says he nearly got expelled for saying the dictionary was his favourite book. The song is from the perspective of conservative authority. The unruly boys and girls who decide to do things their own way must be suppressed, it claims. Morrissey obviously had a few problems with that. The second paragraph is probably Morrissey expressing a feeling that I certainly felt when I was in school - that sometimes teachers decide to punish you (because they don't like you) and then search for the excuse. So if a disliked student asks for help then they get told off for being stupid, if they they don't then they get told off for doing the work wrong. If a student is being falsely accused of something then he can keep silent and be punished for something he didn't do, or make his case and be punished for "answering back", and so on. Basically it's Morrissey complaining about horrible teachers who had no respect for his individual character. |
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| Bob Dylan – Mr. Tambourine Man Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The song is not about drugs, sorry. Dylan's own words from the "Biography" set - " Mr. Tambourine Man, I think, was inspired by Bruce Langhorne. Bruce was playing guitar with me on a bunch of early records. On one session Tom Wilson had asked him to play tambourine. And he had a gigantic tambourine. It was like, really big. It was as big as a wagonwheel. He was playing, and this vision of him playing this tambourine just stuck in my mind... Drugs never played a part in that song, "disappearing in the smoke rings in my mind", that's not drugs, drugs were never that big a thing with me. I could take 'em or leave 'em, never hung me up". It's a common mistake to think it's about drugs. |
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| The Byrds – Mr. Tambourine Man Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The song is not about drugs, sorry. Dylan's own words from the "Biography" set - " Mr. Tambourine Man, I think, was inspired by Bruce Langhorne. Bruce was playing guitar with me on a bunch of early records. On one session Tom Wilson had asked him to play tambourine. And he had a gigantic tambourine. It was like, really big. It was as big as a wagonwheel. He was playing, and this vision of him playing this tambourine just stuck in my mind... Drugs never played a part in that song, "disappearing in the smoke rings in my mind", that's not drugs, drugs were never that big a thing with me. I could take 'em or leave 'em, never hung me up". It's a common mistake to think it's about drugs. |
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| Pixies – Distance Equals Rate Times Time Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Didn't Newton have something to do with Distance equals rate times time? I remember hearing that Newton once looked into the sun for hours simply to see what would happen - fortunately he wasn't blinded. | |
| Billy Bragg – Accident Waiting To Happen Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Seems to be a description of a girlfriends father who is a typical conservative, and at times an attack on the Conservative party (especially the talk on taking liberties). The guy in the song is a left-winger, and finds himself clashing with the father. The father lectures him on how terrible left-wingers are, yet the father's beliefs are without basis (rubbish), he's basically just spouting the crap printed in the Sun and vocalised by the conservative party. The guy thinks that at one point the father might realise that the conservative party is talking shit (fascism) and he's been buying it all along. The father has never represented his own views, rather he has been wasting away. The guy also defends himself to an extent, belittling what the father says are his "sins". He's also worried about the "carnival of carnivores", the conservative politicians and pundits who decrie any left-wing activity (which is what the father was doing). |
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