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Crack the Sky – We Want Mine Lyrics 11 years ago
Hmmm. That the lyrics cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions says something interesting about the actual content of this song. I won't try to wrap my head around that! Instead, I will say what I originally came here to say: this is a marvelous song with a political bent to it... which is not something you can too often say: that a song is both marvelous and political. And economic to boot. In a nutshell it's about big capitalistic countries (I wonder which one the author had in mind??) exploiting little countries for their resources and them leaving them high and dry when the resources run out. Of course, my dry recitation of what this song means does not do justice to the song, which succeeds in using rock and roll angst, and pseudo-mirth, to punctuate the song. And the words manage to get the point across in emotional, personal terms, all encapsulated in the caustic refrain (and I quote at the risk of stepping on the toes of the copyright cronies): "We don't want your money, we want mine." Great song, a truly great song.

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XTC – Down In The Cockpit Lyrics 11 years ago
Well, simply this song is an invitation to women to go ahead and run things for awhile, you take the cockpit and fly us, it's not as easy, or desirable, as it may seem.

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Laurie Anderson – Born, Never Asked Lyrics 14 years ago
The last line, by itself, is a wonderful haiku-sized poem. There's a touch of nihilism in it. It tends to reject religion, though not necessarily. What does one do with birth, and freedom? Now, Happy Birthday can mean simply that, joy at being born. But it can also mean all the happy birthdays one will collect over time (because, after all, when one says happy birthday, it's usually on the anniversary of one's birth, not the actual day of birth). So happy birthday simply becomes a method of counting time, of ticking the clock ("this is the time, and this is the record of the time," Laurie will say in another song). Happy birthday is a way of answering "what's next?" after birth.
And then, in an odd way, this parallels the first stanza with it's (pseudo?)marvel at the fact that a group of individuals has gathered at the same time.
We are all brought here "in medias res," in the middle of things. As Peter Blegvad sings, "stories all start once upon a meantime ... in the meantime life goes on, ticking like a mean time bomb."

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The Doors – Ship Of Fools Lyrics 14 years ago
What I love about this song is how the music and words work together to create a playful, whimsical mood, with a dose of humor, which you don't find too too often in Doors songs.

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XTC – Harvest Festival Lyrics 14 years ago
The thing that moves me about this song is the sense that the person he was infatuated with is somewhat of a superior. Somehow meant for greater things. She was one of the "two who've been chosen" and when he remained in the town (and got "screwed" etc): "Of course you passed and you were never seen again." And her longing look last him the whole year. So the narrator of the song loves the girl but recognizes that she's out of his league. Then she comes back for her wedding, to someone in her league. So there's that odd recognition of social strata, but not in a social stigma sort of way -- the backdrop of the song gives us that. It's more sprung from nature. The harvest festival is both an image of how the town would regularly get together, and also an image of the children themselves growing up (or being "harvested"). Some are better crops than others. It's just nature. The theme may be the sort of thing that might anger folks if it were about another situation. But since it is about a boy's sweet memory about a girl he could never have, it's perfectly acceptable as such. And wonderful.

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Peter Gabriel – Sledgehammer Lyrics 18 years ago
I would add to the sexual metaphor business and say that it could be a metaphor for procreation. "You could have a steam train if you just lay down your tracks.... This is the new stuff I go dancing in..." The video would seem to support this also. I thought of this song when my wife and I decided to try to have our first child -- it sure places the sexual act in a new light!

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