| Thin Lizzy – The Boys Are Back In Town Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This song always reminds me of the little cycles that people in my hometown go through (and probably most other small towns too). We'll go through our little young-adult phases where we all hang out and party together, then some will settle down with a woman and some others will move away. Then a little time goes by and some of them are divorced and single again and the ones who moved away move back, then we fall right back into our routine of getting off of work, finding a local dive-bar, and playing pool and shooting the shit every night. That's the part that always just feels natural....just hanging out and partying with the guys, enjoying life, and just living day by day. This song is great because it just seems to embrace that care-free, small-town feeling. | |
| Prince – Purple Rain Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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To me, it seems like a pretty simple song to interpret (then again, I might be WAY off lol). He and this girl are friends...he loves her (by the way, the "purple rain" is his love for her) but she's with another man. One weekend they were intimate with each other, but he realized he doesn't want her to ruin what she's got with this other guy if he truly makes her happy ("I never meant to cause you any sorry, I never meant to cause you any pain. I only wanted one time to see you laughing in the purple rain"). He would never try to take her from her man, but he doesn't just want to be her weekend fling either, so even though he doesn't want to take her from her man, he can't be just simlpy friends with her anymore either (see second verse, duh). But in the end, he basically tells her to make a decision. "I know times are changin'" means that he understand he's giving her an ultimatum...to either take him as her man and her lover or end their friendship right now. She talks about what kind of man she wants ("you say you want a leader, but you can't seem to make up your mind") and he knows that he's that man, and he knows that SHE knows he's that man, so he just wants her to close her eyes and really think about what she wants, because he believes she'll choose him. So in actuality, he IS trying to steal her from another, just in a direct, up-front way. One of the greatest songs ever. |
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| Drive-By Truckers – 72 (This Highway's Mean) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I love this song. It's pretty simple, but it's still great. I live in South Florida, and anybody from here can tell you the part that sucks most about traveling to other parts of the country is the drive through Florida, since it's so damned long. Anyways, the main highway I live on goes all the way up the state and I both hate it and love it. When you're leaving, the highway has almost an ominous feel...you're leaving your comfort zone. But when you're returning, when you get within an hour or two from your hometown, you start to feel normal again...you kind of get that "there's no place like home" feeling. But it sucks in a way when you realize that, because of this feeling of comfort, you'll never leave, no matter how bad things get there for you and how good it could be somewhere else. I'm stuck here, and as long as this highway may be, I'm never going to go more than an hour in either direction on it. All of your fears of the outside world and the unknown materialize right there on that highway leaving town. | |
| Bucky Covington – A Different World Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Yeah, it's pretty obvious. I hate to admit it (because I don't listen to "country" on the radio, I prefer metal, alt-country, or classic-country) but I love this song. For a long time I would hear it on the radio out in the shop that the mechanics listen to, and I thought it sounded just like Shenandoah, and kept thinking "How in the hell have I never heard this song before?" Then I see the video and it's this kid who doesn't look old enough to buy cigarettes (not that I'm some old timer, I'm only 26). It's a great tune though. This is just a common viewpoint that most folks (especially us Southerners) have known to be true for a long time. The Lee Greenwood song "Thirty Years Ago" is another good one and is very similar to this. I've always said that whenever I do have kids, they'll grow up the way I did...in the summer time we were locked out of our house, we weren't allowed to sit around and play Nintendo all day or goof off on the computer...if we got thirsty we drank from the hose. We played and got dirty like kids should do. My kids also won't be watching any Pokemon or Spongebob or any weird crap like that lol. I'll have the Loony Toons, The Flintstones, and G.I. Joe on DVD if they want to watch cartoons. Anyways, I'll wrap this up, starting to sound like an old fuddy duddy. |
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| Corrosion Of Conformity – Albatross Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Well, I just Wikipedia'd "albatross" and it made no mention at all of my "far away from land" story, but I HAVE heard/read that before. It does mention them as being a symbol of bad luck and a person with some kind of an addiction or problem might refer to "an albatross around their neck". Anyways, there ya go. | |
| Corrosion Of Conformity – Albatross Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Since nobody mentioned it, an albatross is a seabird with a huge wingspan. An albatross was always a symbol of bad luck, especially in nautical terms. I believe (but I'm not sure, so don't quote me) that they fly far, far away from land for fish, and sailors who were stranded at sea knew they were going to die when they saw the albatross, because they knew they were far from shore. So when people call something an albatross, it's just like a bad luck charm or a bad omen. So keep that in mind when interpreting this song. | |
| Pantera – Yesterday Don't Mean Shit Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song is one bad-ass song to listen to when you're working out. Just pop in Reinventing the Steel, let the whole thing play, and you'll finding yourself busting your ass harder than you thought you could. | |
| Pantera – Planet Caravan Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This is one of the best songs to burn to. I've been clean for a few months now (probation) and have a few more to go, but dammit, there are few things better than turnin' down the lights, kicking back with a fatty, and putting this song on repeat a few times (another very cool one is "Jail" by Down). And I like this one better than Sabbath's. Phil just sounds better. |
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| Drive-By Truckers – Sounds Better In the Song Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Man, I wish there were more DBT fans around here, because I can't believe nobody's commented on this one yet. I think it's one of the best songs on the "Decoration Day" album. I guess it's a fairly simple song. This is about a guy who's a singer or in a band who at one time thought he was going places. He found this girl who he apparently at one time was good enough for, but after years of leaving her behind to chase his dreams on the road ("I might as well have slipped that ring on her finger from the window of a van as it drove away"), he's now no better than the many guys who wanted to be with her but could never offer her anything. She stuck beside him and waited for his dreams to work out for him, but put her dreams aside in the process. Now that she sees he's not willing to do the same for her, after she's wasted all these years on him, she's gone. He realizes he was wrong for it and knows he can't ever make it right. |
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| The Band – The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| jp410, thanks for the correction. I had heard he was from Arkansas, but I also heard or read he was from Montana, so I guess that one just stuck with me. And I had a chance to hear the Allman Bros. cover it (it's on that "Endless Highway" tribute album) on SIRIUS and it was pretty damned good (if anybody can cover this tune, it would be the ABB). But nothing touches the original. | |
| Robert Earl Keen, Jr. – The Front Porch Song Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Surely you guys have heard the live version of this one, right? He says in the middle of the song that he was roommates with Lyle Lovett at college station and they lived their young adult years right there on that front porch. The first time I heard this song, it wasn't from Robert Earl Keen, it was sitting around a bonfire with a dude that was from Texas who loved Robert Earl Keen and played this on his guitar and sang it everytime we had a party. I thought it was an awesome song, though I never really understood it (especially the enchiladas), 'till I heard the live one where REK explained it all there to the crowd in the middle of the song. Great, great tune (and I've never even been to Texas). | |
| The Rolling Stones – Beast Of Burden Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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He's just saying that he's jumped through hoops for her, and that's all well and good, but when is enough enough "my back is broad, but it's hurtin'" meaning "yeah, I'll do all this shit for you, but it's killing me. I'm bending over backwards for you, how the hell can you tell me I'm not your kind of man? Just make love to me and show me that it's not all for nothing." As far as the song itself goes, I think it's the best song the Stones ever did. You can never get tired of it. I don't dance, but when a band at a bar plays this song, I'm out on the floor before the first word is sang...such a damn good groove. |
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| Lynyrd Skynyrd – All I Can Do Is Write About It Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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First of all, I resent the "white trashed based crowd" remark. I went to see one of their shows in West Palm Beach about two or three years ago. My friends and I had a blast...and none of us are white trash (trust me, I know white trash when I see it...hell, plenty of my relatives could be labeled as such). I didn't see much white trash there at all, at least no more than any other rock concert. So have fun up there on your high horse, just know than when you fall off, they say it hurts like hell. As for the song, it's easily one of my favorites. I live in rural South Florida, and I love just riding around the backroads alongside the cow pastures, cane fields, flag ponds, cypress swamps, and rivers. I only live about an hour from Miami and the handful of times that I went, I could not get home soon enough. The South is a beautiful place, which happens to get very little snow (or in my case, no snow at all). Because of that, we have to deal with the whole "second northern invasion" on our homeland. Every time you turn around, a beautiful piece of land is being torn down for housing and business. That could be acceptable if it were done only because people needed a place to live, but when the majority of the people moving here already have a hometown (they just don't like the weather there), then it really bites my ass. The little town I live in will probably end up the same way about ten years from now, so I might move up to the panhandle somewhere. After that, I'm staying put, and as Ronnie said, I hope that concrete doesn't start creepin' up there before I'm gone. |
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| The Band – The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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A correction, it's not "the mud below my feet" it's "the blood below my feet". Right? At least that's what I always though. And I wouldn't really say Levon was the true "southerner"...wasn't he from Montana or North Dakota or something like that? I could be wrong, but I think that's about right. Either way, I grew up and still live in the South (never will live anywhere else) and this song is one of the most powerful pieces of music to me and my friends. I usually don't like like versions of songs as much as the studio version (unless I'm actually there), but man, the version of this one on "The Last Waltz" absolutely owns. |
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| The Band – It Makes No Difference Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Oh yeah, and as much as I love The Last Waltz, I think that version of this song pales in comparison witht he studio version. Rick doesn't sound nearly as good (but as we all know, Rick and Richard didn't sound nearly as well by this time because of all of their years of boozing, drugging, and performing...although Levon still sounded great). Rick put the same heart and soul into it, but it just didn't sound as good. Maybe that's just me. | |
| The Band – It Makes No Difference Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The most beautiful songs I've ever heard from The Band and one of my favorite songs ever. I don't have to interpret it too much, because it's pretty straight-forward, but man, is it powerful. Do you guys know who wrote this song? i always read and heard that Robbie wrote most of (if not all of) their songs, but it's hard to believe Rick didn't write it. There are some songs that, when the singer puts this much heart and soul into it, you think to yourself "man, this guy had to have been the one who wrote this, because there's no other way he could have put this much emotion into it". | |
| ZZ Top – Rough Boy Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I love this song, one of my favorites by this awesome band. I think it's about a woman who he has a thing for, but she's apparently out of his league. He's telling her "you may think I'm not good enough for you, because I'm rough around the edges, but I'm the real deal, I'm a real man, and if you give me a chance I know you'll see what you would've missed out on". At least that's how I like to interpret it, maybe because I have a knack of falling for the women who are supposed to be out of my league, yet I know I'm a better man than any douchebag she's ever dated. | |
| Black Label Society – Rust Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think he's saying that after being married so long, it wears on you and the little things that used to make you happy don't appear to be so great anymore, and the little things that never bothered you now start to wear you down. But that's married life, it's not supposed to be perfect, so I'll put up with all of it just to stay together, because this is how it is in the real world. | |
| Black Label Society – The Last Goodbye Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I figured it is about somebody close to you dying. "Take me down this road, I've been here before" and "take me down this road, just to see the smile on your face" means "spend these last moments with me...let's remember the happy times we had in life". The one dying is trying to cheer you up. "Take all that you learned and received from me and keep it forever, that way I'll always be with you and you won't have to be sad" is basically what I got from it. "This ain't the last goodbye" pretty much means what it says, "I'll see you again in heaven". I was at my mom's house the other day and she told me she found out she may have cancer. I hung around for a while and put on a happy face, but when I got in my truck to go home, this song was on the cd I was listening to, and I squalled like a little girl. | |
| Black Label Society – Once More Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think this song's about grinding through life and pretty much accepting that it's not going to get much better for you. Kinda like "Yeah, sure, I'll get up and do this shit for you one more time...I'll eat shit and get shit on and fucking kill myself for you again...just don't think I don't know what's going on here. Am I ever gonna get a break? If not, then fuck it, I'll just keep movin' along until it's all over for me, then maybe I'll get some peace in the end". That's just the way I see it. As for as the song itself, as much as I love Zakk, I don't really like how he took this slow, mellow little ballad with a beautiful acoustic solo and laid his "heavy metal" gravely vocals over it...I admit it's different and was kinda cool at first, but I can't help but think of how much better the song would have been if he had actually tried to sing it nicely. But hell, he's been doing this for years, so what do I know? |
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| Black Label Society – In This River Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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A few things: To the poster above me, they did not know each other as kids. I know it can seem that way from the video, but Dime grew up in Texas and Zakk in New Jersey. To the poster who is criticizing the solo, saying it's way too fast to be in this song, two things: 1) a lot of Zakk's ballads are done that way...some may like it, some may not, but this one was no shocker to me because I've heard a lot of other ones that were done the same way. 2) Who the hell are you to tell Zakk Wylde or any other guitarist in his league how to right a solo? As far as the song itself goes, I think it's a good tune on the album, but live is a completely different story. I saw BLS several times at Ozzfest (as a lot of you here probably have), but I got to see them one time at the House of Blues in Orlando, which was one of the greatest times I've ever had in my life. When they did this song, they just absolutely nailed it...it didn't sound much at all like the studio version. If you get a chance, check out the "Stormtroopin" dvd...it's pretty much the same on that show as it was with the one I was at. A little different tempo, and the band spent a good three or four minutes just jamming and soloing before the first verse ever started. |
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| Black Label Society – I Never Dreamed (Lynyrd Skynyrd cover) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The lyrics on this one are just kind of ho-hum, but the music and presentation are great. Seldom is a cover song better than the original, but this one blows Skynyrd's out of the water. The guitar is particularly amazing, even by Zakk's standards. As far as the meaning of the song goes, it's pretty straight forward. He learned at an early age to never get too close to the ladies...just find 'em, have your fun with them, then get the hell out of dodge. But, he fucked around and fell in love with one, and she's the one who bailed on him. Now he's realizing that he never once imagined that he would find himself feeling this way about a woman and now that she's gone, he wants her back...all the others he had were just insignificant compared to this one, but she's gone for good. |
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| Drive-By Truckers – Angels and Fuselage Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This was the first song I ever heard by this band. It is used on the CMT show "American Revolutions: Southern Rock" (which is great, if you've never seen it). It was used at the very end when interviewing Billy Powell and Gary Rossington about the plane crash. As powerful of a song as it is, it reaches a whole new level the way it was used in this show. | |
| Drive-By Truckers – Zip City Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Yeah, the "keep your drawers on girl"line is great...I've always thought it was one of the best lines in a song ever. And you know, as observant as I like to think I am, I totally missed on the daddy/drug dealer reference. I always thought the Reynolds Wrap just meant that he worked for the Reynolds factory in town or something like that. I never thought about a drug reference. What a doofus I am. I love this song, and you can't have a good southern rock song without twin guitars, which are great in this tune. |
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers – I Could Have Lied Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Excellent, excellent bluesy guitar in this song. John Frusciante is amazing on this track, as well as on Stadium Arcadium (My favorite album is By The Way, but there aren't many solos there, and I'm a big fan of solos, which Stadium Arcadium is great for). As for the song itself, I always just took it for the same thing most folks have...he poured his heart out to a girl and she didn't feel the same way, so she hauled ass. I can definitely relate to the feeling. Often times in life, whenever I found myself having feelings for a girl, I would be overcome with fear of telling her...I guess I always figured I would be better off not telling her and always having that hope that she could feel the same way for me, as opposed to laying it all on the line and knowing for certain that she doesn't like me back. Brutal lyrics to this song, it's one of my favorites. |
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| Black Sabbath – Snowblind Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Well, as someone who's done his share of coke (if you get the opportunity, pass on that), I can tell you that there's almost a literal translation here. After a long night of partying and doing coke, smoking Marlboros and weed, and drinking, by dawn your nose and eyes are kind of burning...really irritated. Your eyes are irritated like you've been staring at a computer screen all day and your nose is burning like you've been breathing lots of cold, dry air (what the coke is cut with can have a lot to do with it, but I'm pretty sure it's mainly a result of the highly damaging drug you've been snorting into your brain all night). Anyways, it's one of my favorite Sabbath songs. I don't care much for SOAD's cover, and Zakk Wylde's cover, although awesome, isn't close to as good as Sabbath's (it sounds the same, yet different, but it's very good as far as covers are concerned...you can find it on the bonus disc of Live Brewtality album and I think it's on the Kings of Damnation compilation). |
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| Drive-By Truckers – Puttin' People on the Moon Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Sorry for the double post. Man, this thing doesn't have an "edit" button. I meant to say these aren't anything you HAVEN'T experienced before...I know they're common. | |
| Drive-By Truckers – Puttin' People on the Moon Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Man, this song hits home for me, at least in some ways. My brother was laid off three times in one year, so he started selling coke. That doesn't make it right, but he was paying his bills and taking care of his family, he wasn't hurting anybody. He got busted for trafficing, now he still makes a good living, but he has to bust his ass very hard for it, is paying a $60,000 fine to the state, and is in the middle of a divorce (from the wife who was happier than a pig in shit when the coke money was rolling in). Then my mom, who's the most truly kindhearted Christians I've ever known, who's never said a bad word about anybody in my entire life, just found out she might have cancer, while just up the road at the prison, there are rapists, murders, and pedophiles who are healthy as a horse, and crooked politicians are all over television telling us how they're going to change things, meanwhile they're eating caviar and driving a Mercedes. This song (especially in relation to things I see around me) makes you wonder what the hell is the point of "doing good" and "living right"...you're told that it all works itself out in the end, and what goes around comes around, but when you very seldom see it coming around, you begin to wonder if it isn't all just a crock of shit. Anyways, these feelings aren't anything you've all experienced at one time or another, but I just thought I'd comment what this song makes me think of. Great song, though. |
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| Drive-By Truckers – Puttin' People on the Moon Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Man, this song hits home for me, at least in some ways. My brother was laid off three times in one year, so he started selling coke. That doesn't make it right, but he was paying his bills and taking care of his family, he wasn't hurting anybody. He got busted for trafficing, now he still makes a good living, but he has to bust his ass very hard for it, is paying a $60,000 fine to the state, and is in the middle of a divorce (from the wife who was happier than a pig in shit when the coke money was rolling in). Then my mom, who's the most truly kindhearted Christians I've ever known, who's never said a bad word about anybody in my entire life, just found out she might have cancer, while just up the road at the prison, there are rapists, murders, and pedophiles who are healthy as a horse, and crooked politicians are all over television telling us how they're going to change things, meanwhile they're eating caviar and driving a Mercedes. This song (especially in relation to things I see around me) makes you wonder what the hell is the point of "doing good" and "living right"...you're told that it all works itself out in the end, and what goes around comes around, but when you very seldom see it coming around, you begin to wonder if it isn't all just a crock of shit. Anyways, these feelings aren't anything you've all experienced at one time or another, but I just thought I'd comment what this song makes me think of. Great song, though. |
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| Drive-By Truckers – Goddamn Lonely Love Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Yeah, this is one of those songs that is so damned moving yet it's hard to put a finger on what it's supposed to be about. I guess it's one of those "it can mean whatever you want it to mean" kinda songs, I guess. I just take it as he's got this love, but he knows he can't ever do anything with it. He can't make it be what it once was, so he's just stuck with it. The only thing he knows to do about it is just drink it away, even if it means drinking himself away in the process. |
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| The Allman Brothers Band – Blue Sky Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Some of the best guitar work in a song ever. I live in rural South Florida, and there were few things I loved more than getting off of work on a humid, sunny afternoon, riding the backroads along the canals and cane fields with a rainstorm off in the distance, lighting one up and feeling good about the world, with this song on repeat. No matter how shitty a day of work would be, it wouldn't matter once I got in my truck and turned this song on. |
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| Black Label Society – Spoke In The Wheel Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Dude, Slash is great. Better than Zakk? No. But he's a great guitarist nonetheless. Say what you want about GNR, you may not like them, but nobody can deny the impact they had on the music world. And Zakk is friends with Axl (I even recall him saying in an interview that Axl "is a sweet guy" or "sweetheart" or some shit. If you like BLS better than GNR, that's fine (I do too, for the most part). The only knock I have against GNR is that they didn't hang around long enough to put out very much material, but what they gave us was some good shit. Spoke In The Wheel is a great song, period, no matter how it's interpreted. |
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| Corrosion Of Conformity – Stare Too Long Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| A lot of you are mentioning the guitars...for those that don't know, Warren Haynes (Gov't Mule, Allman Brothers) played slide guitar on this track. His guitar, along with many other things, makes this song incredible | |
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