| Paul Kelly – Everything's Turning To White Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I may be way out of line here, it could be my twisted imagination... But the line about "The newspapers said that the girl had been strangled to death and also molested" always subtly hints to me that it wasn't necessarily the murderer that did the molesting. And that three men in the mountains with bottles of bourbon may just have had another reason for not reporting the crime immediately, but wait for three days to get their story straight. For a small town, the newspapers could have only got their "official" story It's only after the story broke in the paper is the young man arrested. Did he turn himself in? And it's the wife of the one of the men that tells us "When he holds me now I'm pretending I feel like I'm frozen inside". She may know his dark secret. As I say, I could be way off, but this song always has a dark edge to me. Something even more sinister than the obvious. Loved the film Jindabyne too by the way. |
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| Paul Simon – Hearts And Bones Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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There's something deeply affecting about this song. A sense of mutual sadness, the sun setting on a relationship, yet there are permanent reminders from their time together "they won't come undone". I always feel a kind of, well, desolate, after this song (which I often end up playing at sunset on a Sunday!) It's as if he's acknowledged that he has tried everything to maintain his relationship, and so has she. And he has made many mistakes, and so has she. And it's time to let it go, let it lie, "waiting to be restored" On a final note, I always though that it was SHE who said "because that's not the way world is, baby. This is how I love you, baby" But it was HIM! I stand corrected, it really changes the way I look at the song now! For the better, I think. |
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| Cold Chisel – Khe Sanh Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Great comments, people. This is the quintessential Aussie "shafted-by-society" song that this country sadly continues to promote to this day. It started with the convicts and it lives within every generation of larrikins and fair-dinkum battlers - men AND women. To "Pentecost", the Silver City is the nickname for the city of Broken Hill, NSW, founded over 120 years ago was one of the largest silver-lead mines in the world, and home to some of the longest running battler societies this country has ever seen. It is also the foundation for the "Broken Hill Proprietary Company", now known as BHPBilliton, one of the world's largest mining companies. Despite the immense wealth, technological, political and social change generated there, it remains ones of the poorest cites in the state, with long term health impacts from mining lead being just one. Many Vietnam Vets returned to mining towns after the war, to seek anonymity and respite from sheer prejudice in the capital cities in the 1970s. Often it was the only jobs they could get. So the "cold-turkey" refers to the hostile reception the vets got all over the country from deep inland (eg Broken Hill) to the coastal capital cities. "Held a job on an oil-rig Flying choppers when I could But the nightlife nearly drove me round the bend" There are still many ex-military people in the oil and mining industry, I guess you need a military mind to put up with the isolation and the abject hard yakka and inherent destruction of mining. But Khe Sanh still gets a good workout in these mining camps, and it is not far off the mark to declare this song as an unofficial national anthem |
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| Paul Simon – The Boxer Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I've heard that Paul wrote about himself at the time, even though many people think it's about Bob Dylan. He was struggling to express himself creatively (which is amazing given his extraordinary output of that era). But he felt he had to struggle to say what he wanted, he felt like an old, defeated, yet unbowed boxer. It's my favourite S&G tune of all. I used to play this album in the 1980s on vinyl, three or four times a night, probably every day of my life from about 9 through to 16, with those huge 70s' headphones on because it drove my parents bonkers |
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| Art Garfunkel – Traveling Boy Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Such a typical Garfunkel 70's song, full of wistful, yet earnest longing. For most of my life I thought the lyric was "One night of love beside a stranger's smile", so thanks to the website for clarifying that! His voice is so haunting, he's so underrated, such intelligent lyrics. He's much "darker" than people would have you believe. I was hoping to find the lyrics to "Sometimes when I'm Dreaming", now that's haunting. Does anyone have it? |
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