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Bob Dylan – Dirge Lyrics 16 years ago
I saw on youtube some comments that this is about drug addiction etc.? Of course, it doesn't necessarily have to be about one single thing, but I think this interpretation is the most coherent. There are many obvious examples (suicide road, hollow place within, weakness that it showed) but I think this is the most subtle and most interesting:
'I can't recall a useful thing you ever did for me
'Cept pat me on the back one time when I was on my knees'

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Devendra Banhart – I Feel Just Like a Child Lyrics 17 years ago
does this remind anyone else of bob dylan's rainy day women #12 & 35? y'know, the one that goes 'everybody must get stoned'

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Leonard Cohen – The Partisan Lyrics 17 years ago
the french verses are in fact this:
les allemandes étaient chez moi,
ils me dirent "resigne-toi",
mais je n'ai pas pu,
j'ai repris mon arme.
j'ai changé cent fois de nom,
j'ai perdu femme et enfants,
mais j'ai tant d'amis,
j'ai la France entière.
un vieil homme dans un grenier,
pour la nuit nous a caché,
les Allemands l'ont pris,
il est mort sans supplice.

which translate more literally, for any who care, as:
the germans came to my home,
they ordered me to surrender,
but i could not,
i retook my weapon
i've changed my name a hundred times
i've lost wife and children
but i have many friends
i have all of france
an old man in an attic
kept us hidden for a night
the germans took him
he died without suffering

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Jeffrey Lewis – The Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song Lyrics 17 years ago
this could happen, i wish it would. maybe i should take up eavesdropping and/or speak louder about songs

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Emmy the Great – First Love Lyrics 17 years ago
first time?
so many of emmy's songs about sex, it seems.

another wonderful emmy the great song, she is absolutely fantasticcc

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Neil Young – Like A Hurricane Lyrics 17 years ago
after a long overdue introduction to neil young, this was the first song i was played. i'm absolutely in love!
brilliant song.

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Bob Dylan – Senor (Tales of Yankee Power) Lyrics 17 years ago
these analyses are fantastic, i'm just going to keep it short and sweet and say that i love this song, and bob's voice in it

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Bob Dylan – She's Your Lover Now Lyrics 17 years ago
"you just sit around and ask for ashtrays, can't you reach?"
i just love that line! vicious vicious bob

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Conor Oberst – I Don't Want to Die (In the Hospital) Lyrics 17 years ago
mm, i don't want to say this..but it is slightly/quite an irritating song.

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Conor Oberst – Milk Thistle Lyrics 17 years ago
sorry to be utterly pointless, but this is just simply a beautiful song, i don't really know what else to say

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Adam Green – I Wanna Die Lyrics 17 years ago
the perfection of these words is just absurd- it should make no sense, yet (although admittedly i can't pinpoint any specific meaning) it seems to flow perfectly in my mind.
i hope that my meaning isn't lost in my words..
but yes, it's just a very sad song

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Emmy the Great – Gabriel Lyrics 17 years ago
i just read that emmy described this song as the tale of a 19th century woman choosing to marry for love, not money.

there we go

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Martha Wainwright – Bloody Motherfucking Asshole Lyrics 17 years ago
this encapsulates teenage girl angst, it's just perfect

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Noah and the Whale – Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down Lyrics 17 years ago
i think this song is about addressing the pointlessness of life, in a hopeful way

there's a missing verse:
Oh consider the world just for a moment
Oh and it’s gone before we even know
Oh but I’ll follow it round
I’ll follow it round
Yeah I’ll follow it round
I’ll follow it round
‘Til peaceful the world lays me down

i think this final verse concludes the whole sentiment: yeah, individual life is without real significance, but i'll go along with it

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Emmy the Great – Gabriel Lyrics 17 years ago
i think this song is about rejection of a religion. i don't really have any justification for it, but it's all i ever think when i listen to it.
the idea of growing up and discovering that, in fact, what you've been taught all your childhood isn't what you really believe, nor want to believe.

anyway, regardless of it's meaning, i love this song!

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Bob Dylan – Eternal Circle Lyrics 17 years ago
yeah, i love it. just so sweet. and how much do you want to be this girl to someone like bob dylan?!

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Bob Dylan – Eternal Circle Lyrics 17 years ago
yeah, i love it. just so sweet. and how much do you want to be this girl to someone like bob dylan?!

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Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah Lyrics 18 years ago
somebody asked previously, who wrote all the extra verses sung in other versions; cohen did.
in total, he wrote something like eighty verses...

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