| Everything but the Girl – Missing Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Forgot to mention the one additional superiority/aloofness symbol... "like outer space." Not really there. Whoever this was meant something to someone and didn't care. | |
| Everything but the Girl – Missing Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"And I miss you, like the deserts miss the rain." A few already pointed out that deserts can't "miss" rain since they don't really know it. Deserts, however, can yearn for rain. She yearns for the friend she never really had, the friend who was always ahead of everyone, who yelled down to her from the window, who found some better place (more symbolism of superiority/aloofness) without ever saying goodbye. We all know people like this, social people who come into our lives, we think we know them, we think we found a true friend, and then they bounce along to some better person or place. Bittersweet song. Sometimes you don't miss what you have until it's gone. |
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| King Crimson – 21st Century Schizoid Man Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"Cats foot, iron claw" I noticed some people have taken this to mean bionic synthesis and the loss of organic form. However, I have a slightly different take: Iron claw is merely a play on words... it's merely a metaphor for authoritative rule while reflecting the preceding "cat's foot." The "cat's foot" is important because what does a cat's foot do, or more importantly what does it NOT do? It's padded and silent... it slips around unnoticed in the night. This lyric is thus about a surreptitious transition to authoritative rule. |
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| Grateful Dead – Wharf Rat Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This is my favorite Dead tune. floppywoknoodle is right, Purley Baker is indeed a double entendre. Rev Purley Baker was head of the anti-saloon league in the days of prohibition. Jerry Garcia did a charcoal artwork entitled "August West:" http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/garciawharfrat.jpg The image is as haunting as the song itself. |
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| Grateful Dead – Ship Of Fools Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I honestly have no idea what this song is about. I know that in days past the insane were often thrown onto ships and sailed about.... "And all that could not sink or swim was just left there to float." Sort of an out of sight, out of mind thing? Often the isolation and vastness of the sea, and the time away from home would driver them further into madness: "The bottles stand as empty, as they were filled before. Time there was and plenty, but from that cup no more." I can only presume the fools were objects of ridicule by the locals when they came into port, but some saw the folly of the situation: "It was later than I thought, when I first believed you, Now I cannot share your laughter" |
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| Grateful Dead – Row Jimmy Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Jimmy and Julie are a poor couple or perhaps children living on the banks of the Mississippi. Live in a grass shack and subsist on whatever they can. Keep some pet rabbits, no money for watches or niceties... "ask the time, baby I don't know" Jimmy either has a rowboat and ferries people from the riverboat to the shore and vice versa. A rich riverboat patron wryly asks him "Gonna get there?" "I don't know," says Jimmy. "Seems a common way to go." He gives Jimmy a tip anyway: "Here's a half dollar if you dare " The whole song speaks to the rift and disconnect between the classes, as well as the hopelessness and confusion that poverty so often brings. A truly beautiful song. One of the Dead's finest..... |
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