| Funkadelic – Music For My Mother Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Surely one of Funkadelic's most powerful songs. For me this song evokes the distant blues roots of funk and also hints at some connection to negroe spirituals in the days of slavery. I mean "Keeprunnin' Mississippi", mouth harps, old railroad trains and the fact that the narrator is running from something, conjure up pre-abolitionist times. Also for a long time I thought the lyric was "My feet was tied anyhow", meaning he was shackled with leg chains. And "On my way back" not just "on my way" implying he had escaped from custody and was trying to get back home. Regardless, for a band not really known for lyrical depth this is some heavy shit. |
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| Steely Dan – Kid Charlemagne Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Mandalex pretty much nails it. Also "White Men on the street" is a reference to cocaine use on the rise in the 70's. People were moving away from hallucinogens towards stimulants, which added to the Kids demise. | |
| Steely Dan – Kid Charlemagne Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Mandalex pretty much nails it. Also "White Men on the street" is a reference to cocaine use on the rise in the 70's. People were moving away from hallucinogens towards stimulants, which added to the Kids demise. | |
| Steely Dan – The Caves of Altamira Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think this song is really about art. Specifically about how art has changed through the millenia. The song is about a man reminiscing over a secret spot he would visit as a boy. He was awed and impressed by cave drawings he saw there. We flash to a modern day art gallery where the man is viewing works of "a woolly man without a face and a beast without a name"; a postmodern take on those classic cave drawings. The art of the cave had a real power and connection to the viewer that the modern work lacks. The cave artist created because he had to, it wasn't some "cool" thing to do, it was much deeper than that; he heard the call and he put it on the wall. "For you and me we understood"-it is an art that we can all realate to on an almost visceral level, not some highbrow concept laden bullshit that you need years of art history scholarship and modern art savvy to understand. My favorite line is, "Could it be this sad design could be the very same?" The viewer can't believe what passes for art these days and how far removed it is from those early primeval sketches. |
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