| Peter Gabriel – Games Without Frontiers Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I liked reading your thoughts...this runs along the lines of what some of you said, but i just feel that this song is mainly about the fact that adults are the same as kids. We have this idea that we are different, but when i "grew up" i never really felt like i was different and i could see that all the adults around me certainly aren't all knowing and humble... it's just like a joke about how we are just BIGGER KIDS doing more dangerous things. whistling tunes as though it's child's play during war? it's as though countries have taken the place for childhood gangs or cliques... and we have our own codes (language) and our symbols (flags) and we compete to control turf (the world). i think of whistling tunes on the beach as Normandy, and the jungle as vietnam...like the world is just one big playground that we play in. it's showing how meaningless a flag is and anyone can put any colored flag anywhere he wants...costumes are just a soldiers uniform and war is technically just a game of capture the flag with greater consequences....he names some historical figures to show that they could really just be viewed as children with more years on them and essentially doing the same things...like someone said, lord of the flies....people of any age are going to compete for power and resources, and the ones who don't want to play...they lose... i'm guessing he threw in those game show references just to be a artistic and clever and hit as many aspects as he could...pimp song! |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| isn't this site called "song meanings" ?? why does everyone just say "oh this song is so good...." i don't care how much people enjoy or hate a song....i want to know what people think it MEANS! | |
| The Summer Obsession – Free Fallin Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| i wonder do vampires mean heroin addicts specifically? It seems almost as though vampires were based on heroin addicts because of their surprising similarities....need for dark....do anything for "it"....being inhuman....bitten by the first time..both in a different world..etc. etc. | |
| Bob Dylan – Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Wow....i have had a lot of fun reading this....i've loved this song for almost 10 years and i've always felt i'd like an explanation....it's kind of interesting because i always feel like i subconscious understanding of it, but if i try to put it into words it doesn't quite work....i agree with so many of your responses, even sometimes when they don't agree with each other. I'm so very glad that dylan didn't reveal everything so we can have fun trying to figure it out.....the 2nd and 3rd pages seemed to have some really intelligent and sometimes genius thoughts! anyways, i feel like i'd like to have a go at it, although i'm not at all confident, just having fun: it kind of reminds me of Ocean's eleven... it seems quite certain that lily and the jack of hearts had a previous relationship which was probably romantic....whether they had a big plan from the start to set up big jim, i've no idea, but i do think that finally jim must have realized where he'd seen that face....although i was quite intrigued by the response that big jim might have seen the "notorious outlaw" on wanted posters... i flirted with the idea that maybe lily dressed up like rosemary (buried her dress away) and then dyed her hair... and it says "rosemary" was "steady in her eye" (but i thought rosemary was drinking and wouldn't be so steady). Also...if we knew jack and lily were in the room and big jim came in...why isn't lily mentioned? and why would rosemary have followed jim to the dressing room? it's not like they were a close couple.... maybe the one good thing rosemary did was to take the bullets out of her husbands gun.....i'm quite sure that a "cold revolver" like someone said, is an empty gun...which means that jim tried to shoot jack but was outsmarted somehow. The fact that rosemary was gazing to the future riding on the jack of hearts, meant she was also in on the plan...why else would she have known who he even is at that time?? the fact that big jim wasn't surprised showed that he seemed to know who he was up against the second it seemed it wasn't going to be so easy. ...at first i wasn't even sure who lily was talking to when she says "has your luck run out?.....be careful not to touch the wall..etc.." but she said he's looking like a saint...which could mean literally, as the jack of hearts is dressed up in the costume of a monk....but i'm still very unclear as to why she assumes his luck has run out or why she says there's a new coat of paint.....it just doesn't seem like she would have any reason to believe at that point that his luck is out... ...because of the fact that it says what a good actor the jack of hearts is and doesn't really show how that helps him in any way...followed by the fact that it mentions how the hangin' judge is drunk and the following morning is sober and not hung over...tells me that the jack of hearts must be the hanging judge... and the fact that it's the JUDGE and not just an executioner or something....it seems to suggest that he has some say in the outcome and could possibly save rosemary. And it is also mentioned that the boys are waiting for one more member who has business back in town...now if you say the business is lily...he could just bring her along, she's not in any trouble, but rosemary needs help. rosemary held a vital roll, more important than it seems....if people stole big jim's money and he were still alive, he could come after those who did it.... ....i don't know...i'm just having fun with it... i also noticed that the three names are the three indulgences of a man's life (and maybe bob's) Flowers = beautiful girls>>>>>>>>>>sex rosemary = an herb >>>marijuana >>>drugs jack of hearts = cards>>>>>>>>>>>>gambling |
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