| Paddy Casey – Sweet Suburban Sky Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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the song is just about how normal people don't respect the world we live in these days. he is giving a warning about how polluted the world will be in years to come. what he is saying is that there wont be any good water in many years (maybe you'll be dead by then) and that the future generations will look back on us and curse us because we are ruining the world because we "continue to compromise" in our actions. Basically, the message is to recycle and shit.. |
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| Leonard Cohen – So Long, Marianne Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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more about the above: the fact that he says 'Oh, you are really such a pretty one' doesnt sound like he is talking about a human that he used to date but more like a bud of weed or a lump of hash or sumthin. Also many reggae songs refer to weed as sweet marie or mary jane |
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| Leonard Cohen – So Long, Marianne Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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)Ive always seen this song as being about a battle with a drug abuse (well, not really abuse but drug dabbling Come over to the window, my little darling, I'd like to try to read your palm. [basically, i'd like to try a little weed. The window signifying that its just a dabble (in comparison to "come in the front door") and the 'read your palm' part is about the mystery of the 'high'.] I used to think I was some kind of Gypsy boy before I let you take me home. [don't know exactly how this fits in with my idea, suppose he's saying that he used to think he had some kind of freedom until he got high and got a comfartable mental freedom that he could leave and come back to] Now so long, Marianne, it's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again. [now he's gonna take some drugs, have a laugh, come down, give up again] Well you know that I love to live with you, [he enjoys getting high] but you make me forget so very much. [but it has its effects] I forget to pray for the angels [he loses his religion] and then the angels forget to pray for us. Now so long, Marianne, it's time that we began ... We met when we were almost young [he started when he was in early twenties, 'nearly young' is like an inverted way of saying just past youth (like the logic people have on acid)] deep in the green lilac park. You held on to me like I was a crucifix, [like a religion experience, the drugs overpowered him] as we went kneeling through the dark. [trippin out.. 'through the dark' would mean that nobody else could see what he was seeing] Oh so long, Marianne, it's time that we began ... Your letters they all say that you're beside me now. Then why do I feel alone? I'm standing on a ledge and your fine spider web is fastening my ankle to a stone. [no explanation for this verse] Now so long, Marianne, it's time that we began ... For now I need your hidden love. I'm cold as a new razor blade. [now this line would refer to how people feel who are trying to give up a real hard drug like heroin] You left when I told you I was curious, [he probably gave up drugs because he thought he might go on to harder drugs] I never said that I was brave. [he is convincing himself that he would never get involved with hard drugs, and that he can handle his addiction] Oh so long, Marianne, it's time that we began ... Oh, you are really such a pretty one. [cravings for drugs are getting strong, drugs startin to look good to him] I see you've gone and changed your name again. [drugs always are reffered to by slang names that change constantly, so what he's saying is that, although it may not be so long since he gave up last, there is a new slang name for his drug of choice] And just when I climbed this whole mountainside, to wash my eyelids in the rain! [high again] Oh so long, Marianne, it's time that we began ... probably makes no sense but hopefully people can add something to this view |
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| Leonard Cohen – Famous Blue Raincoat Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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just a quick point about the lyrics: You'd been to the station to meet every train And you came home without Lili Marlene Cohen uses trains and train stations as a metaphore in many of his songs so far as i gather, in Cohen's mind: 'meet every train =' means sleep around 'wait for a train' = wait for love 'getting off a train' = dumping someone basically to get a train is to have sex, it's cohens way of comparing how so many men (the passengers) and women (the trains) in regards to relationships been to the station to meet every train : i believe means that he went looking for love .. and you came home with out lilly marlene.. means that he did not ever find the right woman for him. and you trated my woman.. to a flake.. of your life... basically means he had a brief relationship with his wife because he had no real love of his own i think that cohen uses the word ''wife to emphasise his stable relationship in contrast to the brothers flings (which of course his 'wife' became) |
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