| Steely Dan – Everyone's Gone to the Movies Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I always assumed that the line "I know you're used to sixteen or more, sorry we only have eight." was an inside joke about recording the demo on an 8 track machine, whereas the guest musician was probably accustomed to recording on 16 tracks, which would have be the industry standard at the time. | |
| Kanye West – Flashing Lights (feat. Dwele) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Like just about every other rap song, it reads like BAD junior high poetry. The flashing lights are paparazzi photogs, I guess. | |
| The Police – King Of Pain Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This is what happens when your name is a verb! | |
| U2 – In God's Country Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Seems to me to describe poor Mexican people longing to enter the United States-the land of hopes and dreams. Dreaming of that day underneath a desert sky, they have great hope, but soon the hope runs dry. They need something to renew that hope tonight. but each night when reality sets in, the dream must die. She is on "the other side" of the Rio Grande. Beautiful, but poor and ragged, like a beautiful flower that has sprung up in the desert. When the mid-day sun hits, all they feel like doing is sleeping. Like a drug-it's one of the few escapes from the suffering heat. Big, dark, yearning eyes, scan across the local cemetery, and they realize how many others before have died while waiting for that day of escape to a better life and brighter future. Give them inspiration. They'll push thru the dark desperation, willing to die for the opportunity to see what's on the other side... Anyway, you get the idea. She stands with a naked flame might refer to the statue of liberty. | |
| Alice Cooper – Desperado Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think this song is an allegory about a John and a prostitute. The "twenty dollars" he refers to will make her "die" a little on the inside-not literally. | |
| The Beatles – Revolution 9 Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Opps! I meant "psychedelic", not "pschodelic". I'm curious-all the people that say this song scares them and they can't listen to it-exactly HOW does it scare you? I mean, do you think that something is going to happen while listening to it? Do you fear going insane? Exactly what is it that you fear? When I was young, I would put the headphones on and listen to this on repeat over and over. It's just an auditory dream. |
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| The Beatles – Revolution 9 Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This is an audio equivalent of a dream, or perhaps a pschodelic experience. Or maybe Revolution 9 refers to a one of their records spinning and upon the 9th revolution, something significant is revealed. Or maybe they'd recorded Revolution 8 times before. One other thing, I think at the beginning, when someone says *Will you forgive me?", the reply is "Yes...you bitch" under his breath. |
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| The Beatles – Across the Universe Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It could be about the day John died. A musical premonition of the day you die and the eternal journey your soul embarks upon. The hundreds of thousands of radio and tv transmittions about his death flowing through the airwaves surrounding his soul, out into space and traveling through the galaxy and across the universe, just as Beatle songs are still traveling across the cosmos by radio waves. Pools of sorrow waves of joy could be his life passing before his eyes. The images of broken light beckoned him to cross over to the eternal life. Looking down upon Earth, he saw the vigils, the gatherings, the tributes-the outpouring of limitless undying love. Nothing was going to change his world, so he went on to a new one. Sure it's a stretch, but there are somethings in this world that are beyond comprehension. And to those negative people out there-yes, I know John wrote this in late '67-early '68 and was killed in 1980. |
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