| Joanna Newsom – Sawdust and Diamonds Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Sorry--I had skipped around when I was writing my interpretations, and I missed a few stanzas. "push me back into a tree bind my buttons with salt fill my long ears with bees praying: please, please, please love, you ought not! no you ought not!" I think, maybe this is a dream she had, or a memory, to before he left. She is asking him to take her back to that moment before he left, when she was begging him not to go. "then the system of strings tugs on the tip of my wings (cut from cardboard and old magazines) makes me warble and rise like a sparrow and in the place where I stood, there is a circle of wood a cord or two, which you chop and you stack in your barrow" Now she is definitely either going back to a memory or dreaming of better times, when her love was home and chopping wood, doing every day tasks. The system of strings is either her dreaming, or the boats again, which take her back, while she is gazing at them through the window, she begins to think of those times. "it is terribly good to carry water and chop wood streaked with soot, heavy booted and wild-eyed as I crash through the rafters and the ropes and pulleys trail after and the holiest belfry burns sky-high" She is saying it is manly enough of her love to stay home and do those chores, and she could have rung the bells herself with no worries. "then the slow lip of fire moves across the prairie with precision while, somewhere, with your pliers and glue you make your first incision and in a moment of almost-unbearable vision doubled over with the hunger of lions "hold me close," cooed the dove who was stuffed now with sawdust and diamonds" The light house light comes through the window, illuminating that dove he made her. It reminds her that he DID go, and while the other happier things were happening, he was also beginning to build that dove, the promise, that he was beginning to plan to sail away. She is unable to stand it, she is hungry for him, for his return, as she desires both as strongly as a lion might desire his food. The dove now is only a reminder of how much she misses him and wants him to come back and hold her closely. "I wanted to say: why the long face? sparrow, perch and play songs of long face burro, buck and bray songs of long face! sing: I will swallow your sadness and eat your cold clay just to lift your long face" Maybe the reason her love left was because he was down, having wanted more adventure than was presentin his life. Maybe she had considered asking how she could have fixed it for him, but instead she kept silent and he decided to sail. "and though it may be madness, I will take to the grave your precious longface and though our bones they may break, and our souls separate - why the long face? and though our bodies recoil from the grip of the soil - why the long face?" She fears the "long face," the last she saw him in before he decided to leave, will be the last she will see until she dies. She will be haunted knowing she never asked, and thereby was never able to rid him of his long face before he chose to leave. "in the trough of the waves which are pawing like dogs pitch we, pale-faced and grave as I write in my log" She can hear/see the waves crashing, and she is forced to reflect, as she has done, here having written this song with a grave face in her "log" or her journal. Okay, so that was the missing piece of my interpretation. I like this way of seeing it, and I only read about a page and a half of comments for the song, so if someone else has already written this, well, that is fantastic that maybe I have an idea that may fit. If anyone agrees or disagrees for reasons, I would be interested in seeing future comments. |
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| Joanna Newsom – Sawdust and Diamonds Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think this is about a girl who has a husband who is a sailor. She worries about his long trips out to sea; in fact, she worries that he will never come back home. "from the top of the flight of the wide, white stairs through the rest of my life do you wait for me there?" So she last saw him from the top of the stairs as he left through the door. "there's a bell in my ears there's a wide white roar drop a bell down the stairs hear it fall forevermore" That is the "tolling" of...the lighthouse? There is some bell at the beach that you can hear at night, but I am not sure which it is. It, however, is a constant reminder to the girl of her husband being out at sea. "drop a bell off of the dock blot it out in the sea drowning mute as a rock; sounding mutiny" The bell is driving her crazy because she is worried and it is a reminder of that about which she is worried. She wants the bell to stop tolling, and she is saying "Throw that bell into the sea!" "there's a light in the wings, hits this system of strings from the side while they swing; see the wires, the wires, the wires" These wings could refer to the sails of a boat, the wires and strings those that hold up the sails. She can see lights through the sails at dock, which is sort of hopeful. "and the articulation in our elbows and knees makes us buckle as we couple in endless increase as the audience admires" The endless increase is the growing distance between them as he travels away from her. The reference to the elbows, knees, and audience, is a little more difficult to fit into this interpretation...maybe they are a well known couple, or he a well-known sailor, and the town is highly aware of the length of time he has been gone? If this were so, perhaps the lights through the other sails is not hopeful but sad because it shows the otehr sailors are back home. Maybe the articulation is every day tasks, like walking and talking to people...and the weight of her worry is crippling her. "and the little white dove made with love, made with love: made with glue, and a glove, and some pliers/ swings a low sickle arc from its perch in the dark: settle down settle down my desire" In the Noah story, the dove brings back hope of land, so this reference obviously is to that. Maybe her husband made her a little dove before he left to comfort her, promising he would make it back to land. She is looking up at it in the night while she lies in bed, probably with a window open, which would both allow her to hear the bells tolling and allows the wind to drift in and swing the dove, on its string from the ceiling. "and the moment I slept I was swept up in a terrible tremor though no longer bereft, how I shook! and I couldn't remember" She was able to fall asleep, but her sleep was full of nightmares, but she does not remember the nightmares, or maybe she could not remember the promise or the hope while she had the nightmares? "then the furthermost shake drove a murdering stake in and cleft me right down through my center and I shouldn't say so, but I know that it was then, or never" One of her nightmares awakened her, and she knew in her gut that he was back either then or gone forever. "push me back into a tree bind my buttons with salt fill my long ears with bees praying: please, please, please love, you ought not! no you ought not!" then the system of strings tugs on the tip of my wings (cut from cardboard and old magazines) makes me warble and rise like a sparrow and in the place where I stood, there is a circle of wood a cord or two, which you chop and you stack in your barrow it is terribly good to carry water and chop wood streaked with soot, heavy booted and wild-eyed as I crash through the rafters and the ropes and pulleys trail after and the holiest belfry burns sky-high then the slow lip of fire moves across the prairie with precision while, somewhere, with your pliers and glue you make your first incision and in a moment of almost-unbearable vision doubled over with the hunger of lions "hold me close," cooed the dove who was stuffed now with sawdust and diamonds I wanted to say: why the long face? sparrow, perch and play songs of long face burro, buck and bray songs of long face! sing: I will swallow your sadness and eat your cold clay just to lift your long face and though it may be madness, I will take to the grave your precious longface and though our bones they may break, and our souls separate - why the long face? and though our bodies recoil from the grip of the soil - why the long face? in the trough of the waves which are pawing like dogs pitch we, pale-faced and grave as I write in my log "then I hear a noise from the hull seven days out to sea and it is the damnable bell!" Again, the bell interrupts her thoughts, and she is ripped back to the reality in which her love is still lost at sea. "and it tolls - well, I believe, that it tolls - for me! it tolls for me!" This is her believing the bells to be taunting her, or maybe they are giving her hope that her love may still find his way home, from the sound of the bells? "Though my wrists and my waist seemed so easy to break still, my dear, I would have walked you to the very edge of the water and they will recognise all the lines of your face in the face of the daughter of the daughter of my daughter" She is saying she would have come with him to the end of her life to prevent the worry she has now, but he apparently would not let her come because she was not fit for the rough work of a sailor. She is getting down on the situation, feeling that he will not come back, and that instead of seeing him again, the town and everyone will only ever see his face again in those of his descendants. "darling, we will be fine, but what was yours and mine appears to be a sandcastle that the gibbering wave takes but if it's all just the same, then will you say my name: say my name in the morning, so I know when the wave breaks?" She is saying of course it will be fine (trying to convince herself), but right now she is just panicking, and she asks that her love say her name in the hopes that she will hear his voice and know he is still alive. "I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilight no, I was all horns and thorns, sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright so: enough of this terror we deserve to know light and grow evermore lighter and lighter you would have seen me through but I could not undo that desire/oh, desire..." She is getting up from her bed because she realizes she was not made of soft things that would allow her to sit by and trust in a crafted dove-promise. She was made of sturdier things that reveal to her the truth, no matter how painful. She thinks they deserve to know one way or the other and not to continue being clueless and worrisome. You would have seen me through refers to the dove he made, that it would have helped comfort her had she been able to settle down her desire for her love to return safely, and to be with her. "from the top of the flight of the wide, white stairs through the rest of my life do you wait for me there?" Just back to the beginning. So that was the interpretation I got when I hear this song. Oh my gosh, though, this song is so beautiful; I love it! I also love Peach, Plum, Pear, and Bridges and Balloons, which was the first song of hers that I heard and that won me over. I feel like I am Joanna sometimes...those songs suit my feelings perfectly haha. Oh, they are wonderful. Sorry my comment was so INCREDIBLY long; I just did not want to leave out a point. |
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| Joanna Newsom – Bridges and Balloons Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song is one of the best songs to illustrate my own desperation to live wholly. Joanna is talking about daydreaming and then going after your dreams. When we are children, we are told we can be whatever we want to be. Beginning our journey of life, our fates are malleable; we really can become anything, we can create our own worlds, our own fates. But the methods of seeing our dreams come true are not always as sturdy as the longing. So Joanna's personal dream is represented by sailing. Being out in the wind and the air, feeling the world and experiencing it all fully. So her method would be a ship. But the nautical things, the ships and the anchors and sails, they are all material things that cannot stand up and brace the immense dreams of sailing. They cannot possibly have the same passion to support the dreams. Therefore, she must figure out how to live out her dream using only herself. Then she creates her own world in which sailing is not inhibited by the winter day or the fallibilty of ships. She finds the passion and the presence of a living dream inside her living room. She can lose herself in her imagination, in books, in love. The words she uses illuminates the fragility of such a dream: "a little wicker beetle shell" instead of "a rocking chair" shows how she embraces these belongings as if they are the heart of life. Oh my love! Oh! It was a funny little thing, to be the ones to've seen. She is joyous knowing she has found the secret to life, the meaning to hers at least, which is to pursue dreams through imagination and they will always come true. She is expressing her thrill at knowing she is in love and able to do exactly what she should to be happy. She realizes how miserable much of the world is, and her simple, beautiful interpretation of life is a gift that she is celebrating possesion of. My favorite part: "The sight of bridges and balloons / makes calm canaries irritable." Seeing the potential for dreams to come true but being unable to reach them absolutely irritates the seekers.I picture a canary sitting in a small cage by a window, watching people walk numbly over a bridge in their every day tasks, watching children with irritated mothers skip to a hot air balloon begging to take a ride. The canaries, who are birds representing domestic freedom (they should be able to fly as high as that balloon and to pass over the river, but being in a small cage, they cannot be content unless they can dream). Dissatisfied people too quickly overlook the treasures in their lives. Knowing that a dream really can come true makes the dreamers restless. These canaries caw and claw because they want to be outside with the air. I am not positive about the next few lines, but the milky moon touching hearts larger than a thimble really resonates. To someone who may appreciate it, who really feels the air on his/her skin, and who can really see the moonlight around them, one small dose of this wonder will fill one up. Life is really worth living when you can smell the honeysuckle and feel the dew beneath your toes. I am a dreamer, and this song is just so beautiful. It assures me that I can have anything I want if I appreciate what I get. Such a simple sound, but the lyrics are magical. |
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| Joanna Newsom – Peach, Plum, Pear Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Idk if I was clear on the snow and fruit metaphors, but I think the water runs from the snow as in, out of the snowy season comes the watery season of spring. Then after spring, more passage of time during which she is missing him, comes summer, with the fruits. Time just keeps going on, and life keeps cycling, past the loss of her relationship she was too quick to end. | |
| Joanna Newsom – Peach, Plum, Pear Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Peach plum pear* sorry lol. | |
| Joanna Newsom – Peach, Plum, Pear Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The Peach Plum Snow thing refers to the passage of time. She has been thinking about this man she used to have a chance with, and how much she has changed and how much he has also changed. She is still thinking about him as the winter snow turns to spring rain and puddles, and then he changes some while she still remembers when the peaches, plums, and pears begin to arise, She regrets ending the relationship long ago, and now the other "floozies" can afford to be picky as to who they date, and they can break up with the men and just date another one, but the girl narrating cannot because she only misses this one man who is now out of her league. I think it's bolt like a horse, because she used to be able to flirt with him and to be with him at her disposal, but now she is just scared to mess up. She feels inferior in personality now, and she just misses him, but she wants to get away from the hard evidence that she cannot have him, which is why she bolts from him when they meet. This is so pretty. |
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| The Beatles – Till There Was You (Meredith Wilson cover) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I love this rendition of the classical musical number. However, I am pretty sure the lyrics are "They tell me, in sweet, fragrant meadows of dawn and dew." Not "dawn and you". Paul has such a lovely voice. | |
| The Beatles – Till There Was You (Meredith Wilson cover) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I love this rendition of the classical musical number. However, I am pretty sure the lyrics are "They tell me, in sweet, fragrant meadows of dawn and dew." Not "dawn and you". Paul has such a lovely voice. | |
| The Beatles – Yellow Submarine Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I've already posted something, but my mind has changed about the meaning of this song. I think it has to do with fame. Yellow tour bus...sky of blue (bright future ahead)...see of green referring to the flow of money. It's saying how wonderful this life is, but almost sarcastically. "As we live/a life of ease/Every one of us/has all we need" this would be how being on tour, they all have what they "need": money and prospects, but they are saying real life is deeper than that, and to envy them is silly (which is why it is under such a silly pretext). It's like they are repeating what a person may say of their life, but sarcastically to point out that it isn't as fantastic as everyone might hope. Also, while Ringo sings this, I do believe Paul is the writer for it. I really hope I'm not stealing what someone has already written. I've thought this for so long, it is possible the idea came to me through what someone else has said, so if you said this first, sorry!! |
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| The Beatles – Oh! Darling Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| OMG!! John could NOT do what Paul did for this song! Paul's deeper voice gave it more depth because of the range, and he really tore it up for this. John's voice works well for Twist and Shout and Please Please Me, but this one has more despair and has a greater impact because of PAUL'S voice. OMG. I love Paul, and this song is soooooooo...omg. So good. | |
| Meredith Brooks – Bitch Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| this song makes me feel so glad to be a woman! it is celebrating all the things most women are despised for...namely being "bipolar" or "moody" or whatever. of course we all ahve a little bit of everything in us, and rather than trying to hide it, Meredith is living it up and telling her guy that this is who she is, and he may have to be a stronger man to accept it, but she won't change. and my favorite is that she wouldnt want it any other way!!! THAT is strength and self-happiness. :))) | |
| Alanis Morissette – Head Over Feet Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is about a boy who told a girl many times that he loved her, and she only saw him as a good friend. But as time went on and she watched him, knowing he had loved her, she began to realize what she felt was more than friendship as well, and in this song she is liberating herself by proclaiming to him and to herself that she DOES love him. And after admitting to it, she begins to be carried away by the love current, and suddenly it was so obvious the whole time, hence "what took me so long." Also, the part about her never wanting "something rational" i think means that she is only ever attracted to guys who arent as kind or maybe just don't like her back, and she was sort of sub-consiously keeping herself from falling in love with someone who was worth it. And now she is opening herself up and putting her heart on her sleeve for someone she should have opened up to a long time ago. She is so brave in this song and she is thrilled! |
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| The Beatles – The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i like this song. except that horrible screeching sound in the background, and that little blip in the middle...oh wait, that is yoko ono. why, oh why dd john ever marry her? |
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| The Beatles – Revolution 9 Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| sergeant pepper, i have to say, OMG it is so possible to change your part!! wow ppl change their parts all the time. (in the hair) and i would also like to say, the first time i heard this song i was looking at beatles things online, and i thought i had clicked on someone trying to scare you...i did not think it was actually the real song. and as for the paul is dead hoax...if he were in fact dead, why would the beatles have tried to cover it up? AND even if they had decided to cover it up, why then would they have left ALL these thought out clues behind saying he did die? i mean, to cover it up the way ppl think they did would have completely disrespected his death. HE. IS. NOT. DEAD. it was a joke. | |
| The Beatles – Revolution 9 Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| omg this song scares me so bad, especially backwards. i think, after looking at those ridiculous sites saying paul is dead and why, that the beatles must have themselves been playing around with that hoax. and this song just makes perfect sense in that joke...i mean, listening to it forward it still seems weird, adn parts sound like they are already playing backwards. then that whole piece in the middle, when playing it backwards, where paul is supposedly screaming get me out! just makes me want to cry. it is so terrible and excruciating to hear something like that!! i swear this song just scares me to death. i dont kno what else it might mean, though, other than its purpose of feeding the paul is dead thing. | |
| The Beatles – Twist and Shout (The Top Notes cover) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| i think hulio is the only person who has talked about what this song is about. it is an excellent song, and i love it! and i love ferris bueller's day off too! as for the meaning, i think it is about sex, like hulio said. lol like twisting and everything. and i really like watching the beatles sing this one! so raw and passionate with the vocals. | |
| The Beatles – Revolution 1 Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I really like the faster version of this song. oh and, by csspeedbump on 12-29-2004 @ 04:26:47 AM Hey, in the slow version he says dont you know that you can count me out, and then he says "in". Whats up with that? he says it in both versions. If you watch it in the video of the fast version he says it there as well. As for why, lol I'm not sure. Maybe he's saying "eh" rather than "in", like just to emphasize or make a sound...i mean, idk. I really like the way this song is saying basically that the beatles don't want to be involved in a revolution, after everything...they realize a revolution is as bad as war, which is what they would have been against in such a revolution. I just really like the way they are saying something in this one...saying something more political and flat out you know? I like it. |
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| The Beatles – Wait Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I lovoooooove it! i love all beatles songs so much!!! and this darn website has allowed me to wallow in the feelings that derive from their songs and it is so unhealthy bc i swear it's like my whole chesty area is swallowed up and strained and tortured by the songs. omgggg!! i just. love. the beatles! and this is a great song. i wish they could never die and live forever singing for eternity. why, why does life have to be so short that the geratest band that ever lived has halfway gone, and the other half will be gone before i'll ever get a chance to see them live or meet them or anything!! lol i'm sorry i know this isnt going into the meaning of this song (which I agree with maestro...it's pretty straightforward), but i have to rant somewhere lol. and none of my friends will hear it. | |
| The Beatles – Here Comes the Sun Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I don't think it's just about the bad things inevitably coming to an end, but that whatever bad things he had been experiencing at the time WERE coming to an end. It is such a nice nice feeling this song creates. | |
| The Beatles – Get Back Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| OMG!! msrmx350--you actually think Paul died?? I have been reading stuff about that and it is just ridiculous! (in my opinion), but I would be interested in hearing what you think happened. And as for the song, I like the way Paul says Get Back with it sort of lifting at the end like back off in a sort of I'm not dealing with you, just go away sort of way. And I find it really interesting that it could be directed at Yoko. I believe it, | |
| The Beatles – Girl Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I have to say, I love this song!! I heard it in the Across the Universe preview and I just almost started sceaming...it is so beautiful. (and, btw, I HAVE to see that movie. I am dying with the torture of the wait until September. I think it will become my favorite, replacing Moulin Rouge) As for the meaning, I thought it was just about a girl who the boy was dating who just completely took him for granted. She was cruel and used him as just an accessory, but he kept coming back even though he knows it will just happen again. The sucking in just makes it seem more tortured, that he can't even breathe without clenching his teeth bc he is so torn inside over it. I think I did briefly suspect that sound as being a drug thing, but then I thought that was just the part of me that is disappointed by the prospect of the Beatles' genius being in part due to the trippy mindset of drugs trying to find a reference to this activity in the innocent sounds in a great song. lol and I dont know if that made sense at all, but the point is, I don't think that the intake of breath is a reference to drugs this time. However, I don't know much about drugs and in fact had no idea "Girl" was a streetname for crack, so I could be wrong. But this is just my interpretation. |
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| The Beatles – Maggie Mae Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I really liek this song, too. And, reubenator, I also think it is a prostitute who got arrested. I mean, she'll never walk down limestreet anymore? I think that is pretty much talking about a prostitute. | |
| The Beatles – Eleanor Rigby Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I really like the way they say ALL the lonely people...where do they ALL come from. Like, you can walk through the streets of new york city and just be surrounded with people, many of whom are lonely. It's ironic. You can have everyone in the world in one room and still be lonely. I'm sure that's not the meaning of this song, but I just wanted to point that out. I really do love this song, though. It is so sad, and it's interesting as well that there are two main characters in a song about being lonely. Also, when I first heard this song and for a long time afterwards, I thought it said "Father McKenzie wiping the death from his hands." (not dirt) which i know now not to be the lyrics, but it gave me a slightly different look at it, which I believe is meant to be part of the song, I just wouldn't have noticed it so much without misunderstanding that word: that the death of this lonely person, a tragic song, a tragic story, can be just wiped away, and the priest who buries her feels nothing but the constant numb of loneliness. He doesn't bury her with sympathy or loss, but with the sense that it is just another task, another day, and this ending to Eleanor Rigby seems to give her life no meaning at all. It is heartbreaking. | |
| The Beatles – All You Need Is Love Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I just realized that what I thought is pretty much exactly what alliwantisu2 said: It seems to me like it's saying that everything in life will work itself out. "Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be." so that, wherever you go, whatever you do, you don't need to worry about it because it doesnt matter how you think it should turn out. What's going to happen will happen, and what isn't meant to be, won't happen. So therefore, the only thing you need to worry about is loving. It's all you need to work on, all you need to hope for, the only thing in your power. |
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| The Beatles – Yellow Submarine Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Actually, I like Ruralfreed's explanation. It makes sense and satisfies my confusion. | |
| The Beatles – Yellow Submarine Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song was actually the song that got me to listen to my first Beatles' cd. Now I am in love with the Beatles, and I hardly even listen to this song anymore. But the more I learn about the Beatles the more I delve deeper into the lyrics, searching for hidden meanings, in all of their songs (which is why I joined this website), but I can't come up with much of anything very convincing for this one. It does seem like maybe their first experiences with drugs. In the town where I was born there lived a man who sailed to see...so we sailed on to the sun...like, they were introduced to whatever drug this happens to be by a man who had taken it frequently, and they all decided to give it a try after seeing what a fantastic life it seemed to be for this man. It reminds me of Alice in Wonderland. That was percieved as a childrens' book and movie until you realize the author was high the whole time. But I really don't know. It does strike me as strange, though, that in a submarine they can all feel so free. Submarines are cramped and scary...they are UNDER the water!! big metal things that just go quietly throw the water except for the sonar thing, and it's dark, and I can't imagine how the Beatles ever thought of it for this "happy" song. | |
| The Beatles – She Loves You Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The girl hurt the boy and then he hurt her back rather than trying to fix it, and he thought she didn't klove him anymore or somthing, and they haven't spoken in a while. Then his friend saw her the other day and she told him to say she still loved him, and she gave up her pride to be with him, but the boy i nthe relationship is afraid to let go of his pride just yet, so his friend is trying to explain how she really does love him. All he has to do is apologize and he can be back where he belongs (with the girl). This one is actually really straightforward. It's just one of the few I actually understand, so I thought I'd share :) Oh, and that is really sweet Dreffy! Congratulations. |
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| The Beatles – Help! Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think this one is a lot like "All By Myself" in that he's simply growing up and realizing he can't be happy doing everything on his own. After years of trying to do everything by himself, and even telling those who loved him he was fine and needed nobody, he has come to realize he needs to let go of some of his pride and just get help from those who love him. I don't know what he needs help with though lol. | |
| The Beatles – Lady Madonna Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Lady Madonna obviously refers to Mary, but maybe it has to do with her having a baby without needing the sex to get it. Because the woman in this song seems to have babies daily, or frequently at least. It also might be a prostitute who just keeps having babies with her...clients? But there must be a reason for her name to be Lady Madonna, and she is definately a single mother. The line "Friday night arrives without a suitcase" confuses me a little because the line by itself seems to imply she's waiting for someone to leave her (a husband), but the rest of the song implies she has no husband. Maybe that part means he (Paul) is surprised that SHE doesn't just leave, because he thinks she must be struggling to the point of giving up. Thursday's papers may be the child support or something. OR the whole thing could just be like she's a foster mother or daycare owner or....i dont know. But I agree with My Precious in that this, along with many other beatles songs, can have numerous meanings. | |
| The Beatles – Come Together Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Oh, and "One thing I can tell you is you got to be free. Come together right now over me." The hippie-guy is telling the country to come together over him, ending the war, agreeing on things, and the one thing he can say for sure is you've got to be free...free from the draft, free to do drugs, free to live on your own terms. idk. i seriously only thought of all this as I wrote it. Before coming here I had no idea what this song was about lol. | |
| The Beatles – Come Together Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I thought the "shoo--" was just a neat sound they came up with to accompany the AMAZING percussion in this song. I mean, it the drum rolling up and back down thing...it feels like a you're swinging. But at one point in the song Lennon is taking a breather or something and doesn't do the "shoo--" thing and it just sounds lacking (still amazing, but without the sound I can see why they added it). It brings the drums in more and is a sly feeling transition from voice to drum. I't's almost like shh, introducing Ringo. Or like, when you start to swing (on a swing-set) you start off on the ground and swipe your feet up to go into the motion. It seems like that kind of transition to me. And as for the rest, it sounds almost like they're making fun of someone. The campaign thing makes sense, since it definately seems to refer to a drug dealer, but then the things he says to the people in his speeches (that's what I assume the "he says" refers to) are so simple and while it would be telling the people that he is a friend and one of them, it also makes him seem slow. "I know you, you know me...one and one and one is three" and the "got to be good looking cause he's so hard to see" could be Lennon's humor coming into the campaign. People vote based on looks, it's true, on some degree. Nixon, while turning out sorely disappointing, from the perspective of the voters in his first run for presidency, was better suited for the job than his opponent, but wasn't elected on some level because he looked unfriendly. So here, Lennon is saying that, while you can't see much of him (because of his bushy hair covering him as I'm sure would have been the case), he must just be good looking underneath it all. | |
| The Beatles – Run for Your Life Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I sort of like how scary it is. It's full of passion like he really digs into his voice as he sings it sort of...run for you life if you can little girl...little girl. I can see why he would have hated it, though, having written it himself. If I had written something so bluntly jealous and threatening, I would hate it, too, worried that people would get the wrong impression of me. But the song itself is really powerful. I like it. | |
| The Beatles – Hey Jude Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Oh, and I love the line "For well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder." omg!! I have been so baffled and blown away by the genius of Paul's lyrics (along with John's and other beatles'...but I must admit Paul is my favorite)!! I've been trying to think of how one can come up with such clever turns of phrases that work and make sense! And I am continually amazed at how Paul could write this and have it work with the rhythm when he's rhyming in the middle of the next line rather than the end...it reminds me of the style of Edgar Allen Poe in The Raven. This song just moves me. I love love love it. Oh and the seven minute version is the bessssst bc this song is too wonderful to end EVER! i seriously will repeat it on my ipod over and over, even with it being so long! Okay and that is all. I will stop imposing my ridiculous thoughts upon cyberspace :P | |
| The Beatles – Hey Jude Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I thought, when I first heard it and every time since...until I read abt it actually being abt John's son (which I believe and am not trying to despute) that this was about a boy who had the potential to really fall in love with a girl, if he would only give it a chance and let her in. Like, let down his guard. But wow it has been so interesting to read abt all the other views on it. It does disappoint me, however, to think that these songs which have so intensely inspired me, are all about drugs. As such, I try not to come to such a conclusion. :) (In the way I saw it..."Take a sad song" referred to the boy being lonely and afraid to let the girl affect him, because he was too afraid of getting hurt by her. But love is about the risks and Paul was trying to say that it's worth it. And even though this was before I knew the true meaning, I wanted to put it up here to see if anyone thought it even made sense, b/c no one I talk to cares abt the meaning of Beatles songs lol...which, btw, I LOVE THEM!!!! oh, and I am in love with Paul McCartney.) |
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