| Lupe Fiasco – Hurt Me Soul Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think he's saying "Hurt me Soul" is implying that rappers complaining about the same old stuff just keeps perpetuating the status quo, I think Lupe is saying that all the rappers who just keep talking about the same old stuff without anything original to say are like the new Uncle Toms (implied with the bad grammer and "my master beats me, And it huuurts meee soooul"). Then he talks about the condom on the ground he's basically talking about how these Uncle Tom rappers who keep talking about the same stuff without anything original are basically whores. The lines "What constitutes a prostitute is the pursuit of profit then they drop it The homie in a suit pat her on the butt, then rock it It seems I was seein the same scene adopted Prevalent in different things with the witnesses indifferent to stop it" are pretty good proof of this. I think it's not a song about the constant struggles in life, but about all rappers do are selling out and whoring themselves out to the system. |
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| Paul Simon – The Obvious Child Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think your pretty right on this Pat, but the speaker is on his death bed "I don't expect to sleep the night" is a pretty stong statement to support this. But paul Simon did say the "cross in the ballpark" is the burden we bear, and I'd tend to think that the burden in the song is death(""I don't expect to sleep the night"")/ getting older ("I watch the night receive the room of my day "), the obvious. But yeah, no question this song doesn't have anything to do with religion, just getting old, death, realization of it. |
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| Paul Simon – Under African Skies Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think this song has nothing to do with religion, rather it is about music helping people live their lives. "I said take this child, Lord From Tucson Arizona Give her the wings to fly through harmony And she won't bother you no more" The line basically means that as long as the girl has music "wings to fly through harmony" then she can make it through life. The African Skies are a reference to the origin of music in Africa, (the first people were in Africa), thus the line "These are the roots of rhythm And the roots of rhythm remain". It is the rootsof all history and in some sense, the root of music. |
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| Simon and Garfunkel – Leaves That Are Green Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The tone and meaning have nothing to do with eachother, Simon proves time and time again that it doesn't have to be | |
| Paul Simon – Can't Run But Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The song is about how society tries to run towards what is thought to be progress, but we lose our humanity in some sense. "The food we contemplate", "The woman was laughing in advance", "The music suffers" are all pieces of poerty about losing our humanity... This is an amazing song. | |
| Simon and Garfunkel – Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"my fantasy Becomes reality, And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow. So I'll continue to continue to pretend My life will never end, And flowers never bend With the rainfall." Simon is saying that dreams and imagination is what is helping him persist "and face tommorrow", I know I've certainly have felt this way before. |
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| Paul Simon – Slip Slidin' Away Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"You know the nearer your destination The more you're slip slidin' away" "We work our jobs Collect our pay Believe we're gliding down the highway When in fact we're slip slidin' away" I think this means that we believe we're going somewhere with our lives and either stuggling or making progress, but we are ultimately moving closer towards death, slidin away. Simon sings about different scenarios in life, but we being to understand the totality of life and how it works, but any illusions of progress and "gliding down the highway" are not true. |
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| Paul Simon – The Obvious Child Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"I've been following the light across my room I watch the night receive the room of my day" The night recieving the room of his day is an obvious metaphor the aging process, and a great one at that. "The cross is in the ball park" The cross is the burden to bear, and saying it's in the ballpark is like saying it's closer than we'd like to believe, as if to say the "Some people say a lie is just a lie (probably to ourselves)" but burden we bear from it is closer than we like to believe... |
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