| Yoko Kanno – No Reply Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The first time i heard this song i thought it was a suicide note. It is pretty painful though. | |
| Yoko Kanno – Don't Bother None Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I always find it funny that it's a girl singing about having a one-night-stand with another girl. or "lil' darlin'" as it were | |
| Yoko Kanno – Could You Bite The Hand? Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The thing that always blows me away about this song is the sheer skill of Steve Conte's guitar playing. Such clean chord voicings and tone, plus the colours of percussiveness when he hits the wood of the guitar...what a pro. I know Yoko-sama is behind all the music but Conte has it down. But yeah, this song is about humans today and how bad they are treating a) one another ("You want glory, I need none", "Some people live free/Some people just want more") and b) the world ("Some people are always reachin' for some things they don't need/I tell you now/With thoughts like that there will never be enough", "Can you tell me really, you don't need it, you don't want it?"). Pretty profound lyrical message, i like it. I'm musing over the 'title' line: "If you were offered some, would you wanna bite the hand? Would you betray a friend to prove you're cold and then walk away?" I think it might be saying something about how all humans do is take whatever they want, if only to prove that they're higher ("prove you're cold") and more dominant than all the other species on earth. |
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| Yoko Kanno – Blue Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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dorkamunda: it's a sample of the made-up language that Yoko uses for a lot of her songs that she credits to "Gabriela Robin". You can hear it in other songs from Cowboy Bebop; 'Green Bird' and 'Cats on Mars' for example. mostly its just gibberish but gabrielarobin.com has a translating database, and this is what the opening of 'Blue' is listed as: " Were shuel messaia unt dubie di cantus Were shuel messaia unt dubie di cantus......." |
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