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The Pogues – Thousands Are Sailing Lyrics	16 years ago
"The Blackbird" is a traditional Irish dance song. As noted below, the other lyric is misspelled and should actually read "Mr. Cohan", as in George M. Cohan.

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The Pogues – Hell's Ditch Lyrics	16 years ago
"Our Lady of the Flowers" isn't a line, it's the title of Genet's first novel. The song is entirely based on it.

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X – Riding with Mary Lyrics	17 years ago
This song, along with several others (Come Back to Me and the title track) on the Under the Big Black Sun album, is about Exene Cervenka's sister's death in a car crash in 1980, and Exene's grief and attempts to deal with the loss. I think this song's specifically about the inadequacy of religion in comforting her ("a powerless sweet forgotten thing").

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The Small Faces – Afterglow (Of Your Love) Lyrics	17 years ago
No deep meaning here, in fact the lyrics are somewhat cliched when you read them on a page, but this is truly heartfelt when performed by Steve Marriot. It's about finding love after being alone for a long time ("people who once passed me by will turn their heads 'round").

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The Fixx – Red Skies Lyrics	17 years ago
The song comes from the old adage "Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, sailor take warning” which was supposed to predict the weather. They either heard it backwards or intentionally reversed it because they thought "red skies at night" sounded better as a lyric.

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The Pogues – The Wake Of The Medusa Lyrics	17 years ago
The end of the song is also a clear reference to the ending of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

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The Clash – English Civil War (Johnny Comes Marching Home) Lyrics	18 years ago
Choosebro and Indiemonkey have it right: Strummer is referring to the resurgent skinhead/fascist/National Front fascist movement in England and linking it to the "New Party" in the 30s that became increasingly sympathetic to Hitler.

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