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| Rickie Lee Jones – Night Train Lyrics
| 9 months ago
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A mother getting her child back from care? First verse indicating she went astray but then has gotten things in order and is now reunited with her kid. |
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| The Innocence Mission – Sweep Down Early Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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Sublime x A lesson anyone reading this or who has any passing interest in The Innocence Mission - never underestimate a single song of theirs, there is just beauty and magic in abundance, never "samey", never a repeat, just unique, beautiful, wistful songs and poetry of sheer love x |
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| Tom Waits – Rainbow Sleeves Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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A beautiful, beautiful, poetic song I have been listening to all my life and will do so until I die. It's just the most moving, delicate, heart-rending song, an absolute masterpiece x |
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| The Innocence Mission – When Mac Was Swimming Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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@[ice:44600]-9 I agree, it seems like a child's birthday celebration, "nobody knows how they're loved" - the child doesn't know, because he/she is a child but this is also a nod to all of us adults - we never know how we're loved. And then the line, "the flowers that grew, the things that happened" - adult things in their lives that didn't impinge on the childhood of the kid, or something like that.
And the last line, it's a hopeful - wistful maybe - but a hopeful, positive, bright future is ahead. |
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| The Innocence Mission – Birdless Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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Fuck sake man, sorry for swearing, this song does me in every single time - I need to ration it it's that emotional for me. Been listening to this for years and it never, ever loses it's sheer beauty and heartache. Devastating poetry, there's nothing else to say, absolutely genius x |
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| Frightened Rabbit – Death Dream Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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He died in his sleep last night
You died in his sleep last night
Absolutely heartbreaking, when a part of you, or maybe all of you dies with someone. A beautiful, beautiful song xx |
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| 10,000 Maniacs – Among The Americans Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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American high school students should all be taught this bit of the song:
"come the small black book
come the brandy cask
one strange disease
the well worded paper
signed by the drunken
hands of thieves
and suddenly
they were told to leave"
That's it, in a nutshell. All learning should stem from that x |
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| 10,000 Maniacs – Can't Ignore The Train Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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The demo version is brilliant. If anyone looks in on this comment, I can't emphasise enough that this first album of theirs is an absolute work of pure genuise, musically but more importantly lyrically. Every song is an absolute truth-telling poem of brilliance x |
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| Van Morrison – Madame George Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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One of the great pieces of art in our time. I was born in '68 and have been listening to this since I was a teenager. I will always listen to this - a genuine masterpiece x |
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| Joni Mitchell – Let The Wind Carry Me Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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Magnificent and beautiful song. I remember cutting about the Brighton seafront on my bike c. 1992 listening to this beautiful album. Genius is Joni Mitchell xx |
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| Sparklehorse – Spirit Ditch Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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I've been listening to this song since it was first on that album and it never, ever, ever loses its magic. Mark Linkus was a fucking genius and this is just an example of that brilliance - fantastic song lyrically and musically. Magic x |
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| The Innocence Mission – Birdless Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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@[dealingwith:8975] Lovely post and I hope all this time later you are ok. It's a beautiful song, I have been listening to it regularly for years and it remains a wonderful, beautiful, poignant song. Take care x |
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| Red House Painters – Summer Dress Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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For me, the best Mark K song ever, and he has written some stunning and heartfelt songs. It's just this simplicity, but utter devastation that floors you. I do think the lassie in the song does kill herself and the whole thing about how you are always that one or two steps away from knowing who, what and why you are here is apparent in the lyrics. A magnificent, simple yet emotionally complex and devastating song, one of the finest ever written. |
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| The Shins – A Comet Appears Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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It's about what it means to be alive and certainly saying that there is no higher being and we are what we are ay? Anyway, a great, better than the studio version, version is to be found here, and everything else aside, it's one of the greatest songs ever imho.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DmuVLYfEoQ |
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| James Yorkston – When The Haar Rolls In... Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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Absolute disgrace that this has only garnered one comment. This is fucking poetry man set to wonderful music - a heartfelt, biographical chapter of feeling and thought - jesus christ, absolute brilliance. |
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| Horse Feathers – Thistled Spring Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I agree, one of the most profoundly beautiful songs I have ever heard, I really can't get over how perfect it is. Simply beautiful :) |
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| Pink Floyd – When the Tigers Broke Free Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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A masterpiece. Absolutely brilliant lyrics indicating class and the sheer futility of war, while recognising the individual and personal bravery of the guys and women that did the fighting. Very moving and beautiful and a song that will stand the test of time for sure. |
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