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Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road Lyrics	17 years ago
To me this really harkens back to Bob Dylan's 'It's all Over Now Baby Blue" and Joyce Carol Oates' "Where are you going, where have you been" - namely, about an experienced, older man manipulating the innocence of a younger girl, both of them in pain as the inevitable end comes...

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Tina Turner – Private Dancer Lyrics	18 years ago
I think it's about more than prostitution - I think it's about any woman that gives up her dream of real love for the comfortable life....

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The Cowboy Junkies – This Street, That Man, This Life Lyrics	18 years ago
I agree, I believe this is a song about one of the well publicized crimes of child abduction and murder in California. One of the saddest songs ever.

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The Cowboy Junkies – Crescent Moon Lyrics	18 years ago
That answer was in response to this quote from the first lyric, for some reason how the formatting made it not show up --- "I'm still not sure about the significance of the "iron" bed. Is it sturdy, or malleable? Either way, the invitation is seductive"

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The Cowboy Junkies – Crescent Moon Lyrics	18 years ago
To me, it's a prison. Once you're in, there's no coming out. Do you choose that dream lover, or your own?

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The Cowboy Junkies – Bea's song Lyrics	18 years ago
This song is about depression, real, drowning depression.

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Sinead O'Connor – Three Babies Lyrics	18 years ago
Duh, this is a song about abortion. Three abortions.

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