| Andrew Bird – Fake Palindromes Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Meaning aside, this song is incredibly clever lyrically. It opens with an allusion to "Dewy eyed disney bride." Name some of them? Snow White? Sleeping Beauty? It later moves to "swapping your blood with formaldehyde." The imagery of the entranced, slumbering princess as a preserved body is lovely! More subtle. "Runs you hot and cold like a rheostat, I mean thermostat." Initially thiss seems like a line flubbed accidentally, or intentionally for humor. A rheostat is a variable resistor, and if you have used a multi-speed drill, you have 1st hand experience with a rheostat. The song closes with "and drill a tiny hole into your head." Much clearer now, no? It's a seemingly goofy, almost nonsensical song, but the words were chosen very carefully. Andrew Bird is truly a great songwriter. |
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| The Beatles – Octopus's Garden Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Ringo has discussed the fomration of the song. Like mentioned, he got angry during the album recordings and stormed out, taking a trip near the ocean. He mellowed out, and came back with an idea for a song. Oh, and Re: Guy making drug connection to snow white. The Disney version you reference came out in 1937. Up until much later, cocaine was by and large created as a translucent liquid, and not the white powder seen today. If you'd like more proof, the origins of the story go back about 120 years before that version ever saw the light of day either. Sorry to ruin such a good story. |
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| The Beatles – Blackbird Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I heard a story, perhaps apocryphal, that late the night after Paul's wedding, he opened a window and serenaded the fans outside with this song. Besides the already stated connection to the American Equal Rights movement, the song has always seemed to me to represent the ability in all living things to recover from previous pain and injury and take ourselves into a new phase of our lives. | |
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