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| Robert Earl Keen, Jr. – The Front Porch Song Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Something about the lines "The Brazos still runs muddy, like she's run all along" and "Remembering the falling down and the laughter and the curse of luck from all the sons of bitches who said we'd never get back up" that make me feel somber and uplifted by turns.
Couldn't say why. |
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| Metallica – Ronnie Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Whoever has been typing up the Metallica lyrics needs to listen a little more closely. There are some glaring errors in a lot of these lyrics. |
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| Ramones – Pet Sematary Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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It seems obvious to me that despite being commissioned for the film's soundtrack, the lyrics are more in tune with the book, specifically because of the line "molars and fangs, the clicking of bones" referring to the mass of moving bones Lewis saw in place of the deadfall when he followed Victor to the Pet Sematary, which was absent from the movie in lieu of the creepy blue light (which, given the period it was filmed, worked out much better. We may have ended up with cheesy stop-motion bones). |
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| U2 – Numb Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Can't help but laugh at the line "Don't miss (slight hesitation) the one beat". Yes, the song is goofy as hell, but very amusing, and brings back memories of the 90s. That decade might not have been the best ever, but at least gas was cheaper. |
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| Jackson Browne – The Pretender Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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What the song says to me is that everyone starts out with grand dreams about life and how it's supposed to be, but when we get older, it's so easy to fall into the mundane routine of getting a job to pay for all the crap we don't need.
The line about the veterans, as I saw it, was probably referring to aging WWI and II veterans dreaming of past battles of their youth, while on the other end of the spectrum, children are concerned only with getting their ice cream.
In the end, most people fall into that trap of working and buying, and although "love" wasn't the solution to all problems, and not much of a contender in the face of greed, it makes things bearable. We settle for love just as we settle for the daily grind.
As for justicehawver's comment on the ability of someone to understand this song based on age, I'd have to disagree heartily. Yes, the song involves getting old, and some might argue that it speaks of a specific era, but come on, not everyone has to experience something to understand it. |
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