| Eastmountainsouth – Too Soon Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Speaking of a mother's sacrifice and unconditional love, keeping her children feeling safe with the warmth of a smile. Labor, being the pains of labor of birth as well as commitment, sacrifices and devotion to raising her children. Learning independence as we grow into life, we rush to leave the homes our mothers have maintained warm and secure. Though in hind sight, after taking the hits of the real, not so kind world we've jumped into, we realize it was too soon to have left our comfortable homes, if we could only have stayed just a little longer. As time goes by, our mothers age and become frail and those days of our youth can never be brought back. We now have to accept that our mothers will eventually leave us. The voices she will hear I have deducted must be the sound of the angels. In any case, whether angels or the sound of her children and grandchildren, her leaving now, being born into the afterlife, comes too soon. Pretty song, but heart wrenching for a mammas boy like me. :-) |
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| The Allman Brothers Band – Melissa Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I had always thought this song was written as a tribute to Greg's late brother, Duane, who died the prior year. Released on the Eat A Peach album, which was a compilation of much of AB band's music from before Duane's fatal motorcycle accident in Georgia. "Eat a peach for peace" ~ Duane Allman. Maybe I assume too much... Oh well, whatever the meaning, it is a great song. |
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| Tom Waits – Pony Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Only the intellectual among us, you poor little fool. | |
| Amos Lee – El Camino Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Oh yeah, also, The "shepherd's crook" is what references the poles (in the shape of a shepherd's crook) that once held the markers (mission bells) along the historical El Camino Real California path, used by early Spanish missionaries to settle the U.S. and spread their religious message. An eloquently metaphor, I would suppose, to illustrate his journey with his new insight. | |
| Amos Lee – El Camino Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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In several places, this CD (Mission Bell) seems to imply a newly found awareness of preciousness of life and the realization of inevitable mortality. Not sure whether its inspiration is from the writer finding he is going to die or opening eyes to greater power, i.e. God. In the song "WIndows Are Rolled Down", the latter seems a likely element, in either case, as it is stated "my new found faith and my broken heart". Also, in El Camino, he writes he is going to wash his soul clean and makes reference to prayer (which I emphasize in the next paragraph). Anyhow, I see this song alluding to an eye opening event where the old world he has been existing in is coming to a close and he is venturing out with a new awareness, leaving close friends, whom he has deep affection for, behind. He states that his old belief (politic) was where he always felt there was plenty of time to prayer and plenty of time to waste away. Now, he sees that is not necessarily so. He's realized this and his perceptions and way of life will now be changed, by his choice. A pretty song. I really liked the version where Willie Nelson joined him on duet, on this same CD. Willie really contributed his classic deep and lonesome feel to the mix, though Amos' solo version is very good on its own. |
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| John Denver – Rocky Mountain High Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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OMG! Some knuckleheads will take any chance to pontificate their twisted BS, even over a decent man's grave. I don't think an atheist would use the very words in this song, "you can talk to God and listen to the casual reply" if he was truely atheist. Or how about "Thank God I'm a Country boy"? Find another cantidate to hang your foolishness on. You've got the wrong guy with which to associate your atheism, you moran. Sheesh. And, yes it's true, a meteor shower was the inspiration for "I've seen it rainin fire from the sky". |
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| John Denver – Rocky Mountain High Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Absolutely albinomoose! What it might remind each of us of, is a personal thing. But I too believe that the true meaning of this verse is simply the "high" of the wonderful experience of the high country. An amaizingly intense emotion that one can't help but feel, when completely open to it, and in the environment where it exsists. It is an unexplainable experience, and can only be described as a feeling of high. I don't believe that there was any intended reference to any drug of any kind. |
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| John Denver – Rocky Mountain High Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Absolutely albinomoose! What it might remind each of us of, is a personal thing. But I too believe that the true meaning of this verse is simply the "high" of the wonderful experience of the high country. An amaizingly intense emotion that one can't help but feel, when completely open to it, and in the environment where it exsists. It is an unexplainable experience, and can only be described as a feeling of high. I don't believe that there was any intended reference to any drug of any kind. |
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