| Shinedown – Call Me Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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my absolute favorite on this album, so great. very sad tho, and reminds me of a previous relationship of mine. the line "tell me its over i dont want you to hurt" is the line that gets me worst great great song absolutely gorgeous and i agree on the meaning as well he knows the relationship is ending and he wants her to just come out and say it in black and white he just cant believe its over, and he still loves her, but he wants her to be happy and he knows they cant go on its so sad, but so beautiful amazing |
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| Bowling for Soup – Friends O' Mine Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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this is my friends FAVORITE song and she always said that the line "you can always count of me for one last beer" was about me :) the song has a pretty obvious meaning. its about friends, and all the rough timee you go through but how your still friends in the end and how things change, but you stay tongether. love this song love bowling for soup |
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| Billy Idol – White Wedding Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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it IS about his little sis getting prganant and then marrying the father to fix things it is his way of saying gettin married aint gunna fix it the lyrics hey little sister what have you done refers to that the line its a nice today to start again referes to the fact that she messed up and cant start over the lyrics hey little sister shot gun refer to how she needs to just end it all now, basically why dont u just put an end to all of it? IRONICALLY his little sis did marry the father of her baby, then stayed together, and now have many other kids. billy on the other hand..... he got his girl friend pregnant (his girl friend plays the bride in the white wedding video) they DID NOT get married to fix it ended up having other kids and then broke up after a while so ironic and yes, this song will play at my wedding :):) |
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| The Killers – Human Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i can see where people are seeing puppets come into play, and i myself see it somewhat in that sence. but i also see it literally as a despute between our species. the lyrics go "are we human or are we dancer" not dancers. this is because dancer refers to almost a full species. like a heard of deer not deers. deer is a species, deers is like look at thee deers in the yard. so i see it as saying are we the species human, or are we the species dancer. the lines about cutting the cord and letting go could refer to him letting go of all life support, or of his puppet strings, but i always though of it as saying good bye to his free will and spontinaity. Humans have free will to do whatever it is they like, but every move a dancer makes is choreographed and planned out. so he is letting go of his free will and giving into the mapped out life that a dancer species would lead.. i also see it as him asking "are we human or ar we dancer" because he isnt sure whta exactly we are. dancers and humans are the same species, but he sees them as being seperate and he just isnt sure what we are. are we the free willed do-whatever-you-want humans or are we the gracefulll planned out dancers? he isnt sure if we have as much freedom as we think, or if we are wild and raw or if we are planned and told where to move and the moves to do. this is just my opinion and i feel the real meaning lies in whatever you think it is.:) |
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| Bruce Springsteen – The Angel Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i agree with many of the points stated by fallenchief123 including that this song is very well written it is one of my favorites i see the angel in the song as a savior of sorts, but if he is a savior, then he is a tormented one a local hero with a troubled soul who is bound for death by his actions that is why the line "on his way to hub cap heaven" is added it is to infasize the risk of his actions and the knowledge that he wont be able to live through them all when it talks about how the interstate is choked i feel it is speaking of the scene of his death, the streets where packed that day in other words, nomadic hoardds and such it goes into maddison avenues claim to fame, as in teh girl is what makes the street famous to him, the fact that the young girl lives there i t then flows into how she asks for his name and such the second to last line refers to the marble dome, which i saw as the view from behind as he rides into his death and the last line depicts a woman who must have truely loved or been in aww of him who sits by his bones and strokes his motorcycle after his ultimate death |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Lost In The Flood Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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as with many of bruce's amazing songs, i really start to think about the lyrics and i often take those lyrics too a slightly extreame reality level i take his words very literally and not as figurtivley as many of you would like to read them but in context this is one of his few songs that makes since in both ways i do believe this song has to do with the cynical evil of human nature but i also see mit as a story between gunner and what his town has become i see gunner as the bad boy who has just moved to a small, sweet town he comes back, retunring home, and the girls and such whisper wors about him, and he sees the tortures going on in the town with the 'spastics' and the 'nuns running bald' and everyone who is wrecked on main street and he turns to the love of sticker, but what she gives isnt ad innocent as it seems. as said in the song "thats quick sand that aint mud" much more cynical as it is, gunner has lost his scense in the horribleness of the town and has turn the horror that the rest of tehm have the second verse goes into a "poor american brother" who i always saw as gunner before returning to the town it depicts him as the troubled but innoicent child he used to be before coming to the real crueltys of people in ther world and majorily the town he ahs come to in the end, gunner "rides headfirst into a hurricane" from all of the painc aused by the world he has found and the narrator explains to a young child that what he sees isnt an innocent oil, its blood the last verse changes persepctive, it is the aftermath of the town and what ends up happening to it it is a fight that is erupting from all over the bronx best apolstle, eigth avenue sailors, and a stone incarnation of maria are used to descibe the wide spreadness of the event and the cops come up for air, as in the come into the fight with their 5 shoots the last verse probably shows the biggest cruelty in all the song it depicts the cops shooting young mexican men for some unknown crime as the public watches in aw the most horrible lines must be "he held his leg screaming somethig in spanish, still breathing while i walked away" which shows how little he cares about this injured man and what he himself has dont to him and the line "and someone said hey man did you see that, his body hit the street with such a beautiful thud" which basically is calling the man falling and hitting the pavement after being shot beautiful, qhich is cruelty and disguest in itself overall it is a great song that shows the cruelty of humas beings in a very modest, innocent, bi-standar view and i greatly appreciate bruce's honest in his lyrics i admire the boss with all of my heart abd cannoy wait to meet him in the spring |
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| The Who – Baba O'Riley Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i always get the fealing that this song is about a person who is almost trapped in their society. they work hard for for their living (out here in the fields, i plow for my meals) and they use the idea of a farm or plantation to represent that. it goes on to show to how they know what they want and what they deserve and they dont need to prove that to anyone (i dont need to fight to prove im right, i dont need ot be forgiven) the last part with "sally take my hand" is him telling his girl that they can make it out of there to somewhere better (we'll travel south cross land.) "put out the fires and dont look past my shoulder" means to put out old flames and all loose eneds and then dont look back as you run away. i dont know what the exodust means, but i asume it means a time for change, and the happy ones are the people who are where they want to be. lets get together before he get muich older refers to having fun while you can, and living your lfie before life catches up with you. all together a great song and one of my personall favorites |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Wild Billy's Circus Story Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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god, a great song and no comments? thats crazy! well, i personally love this song and bruce. this song is about a young boy who comes to a carny festival (well, it says circus but his discriptions sound more like a dirty carny thing to me) and takes in all there is to see -> "oh and a press roll drummer go ballerina to and fro. cartwheelin up on that tight rope. " "and the man beast lies in his cage sniffing pop corn." etc.... and it talks about how the sounds are like ghosts and float over the highway meaning that you can hear it from the highway and its lieka ghost because its only there once and then it leaves. but in the end the circus boss offers the little boy a place in the circus. "hey son, you want top try the big top? all aboard, nebraskas our next stop" |
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| Wayne Newton – Danke Schoen Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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freshprincess090 - you are right about those lyrics, i have no idea how but the whoever put the lyrics on the website got two of the verses wrong and didnt repeat the last one. and Bloodfox1- you were close. danke schoen is german for thanks beautifully. so good job. this song is him recalling the good times he had with his 'darling', as she is refered to. but he is saying goodbye to her, as the end states, and he is thanking her for all the great times they had. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Magic Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i agree with the thought that this is about the governments tricks, and i just relized that by reading some of the early comments on this. if you think about it, som eof the metaphors to refer to how the government gets people to do their bidding, to lay themselves on the line for them, so they wont get their hands dirty. specifically the lines "i got a shiny saw blade, all i needs a volunteer" reminds me of how they will get you killed in a war if you just volunteer to go over, and also the line "carry only what you fear" can refer to that, cause you leave all your family behind and carry the fear of where you are going. i absolutely love bruce and this is one of the few songs i actuially like on his new album (im more of an old bruce person) and i find it amazing how he can take a concept like that and make it into a song without ever mentioning the meaning behind it directly, it facinates me. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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this was the third bruce song i ever had memorized and ever listened to, behind the river and born to run which made me the die hard fan i am today, and when i was young, i wanted to be a writer (and i still somewhat hold onto this dream today) and i started with writing fan stories based upon a movie i saw once and loved, and i saw one of them as a musical, this was one of the songs i always imagined using in the musical and i saw it being used as a part in the story that reflects what the song was about. i saw it as a young man coming back to the girl who left him (i always used it as they got in a fight and she left, but he wanted her back, so he goes to her house to get her and as she wants to go back inside and not talk to him he convinces her that there is nothing to hide from and that coming back with him would be whats rigth, as it gets to the "oh oh oh oh thunder road" i saw the two of them running down the streets and heading towards home together, and then him going in to tell her what he has acomplished "i got this guitar and i learned how to make it talk" and now i see that as a way that he is telling her he can make a living for them from that, his guitar skills, and that he can drive her away in his car and they can be together, but the ride isnt free so that means he will drive her out with him, but shes gunna have to stay and repay him back and shes gunna have to make up her mind. he goes in to tell her that he knows shes lonely but tonight they are going to be free and break all of their promises to everyone. the last verse was always one of my favorites (tho my very favorite was the "you can hide neith your covers and study your pain, make crosses for your lovers throw roses in the rain, waste your summer preying in vein for a savior to rise from these streets......") i love the image of the ghosts in the eyes of all the boys she sent away as she runs away with this boy and the boys she sent away haunt the dusty beach rodes and the skeleton frays of worn down chevroles (as in they are sadened by her leaving and haunt the beaches that they used to walk like ghosts stuck in the past) they scream hedr name at nights in the street makes me think of them desperatley wanting her back and her graduation gown being at their feet refers to how shes runnign away and not going to come back to finish school or so forth. the ending was always a little jumbled, but i saw it as they ride through the streets before dawn and she can hear the cars engine but when she gets outside to talk to them about it all, they are gone, and he calls them losers for doing so (its a town full of losers) but he is going to pull out of the town and win it all. absolutely amazingg |
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| Bruce Springsteen – 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i see that i tend to see all of bruces songs more literally then they should be seen, and often dont take his metaphors into concideration with all of his songs, so i see that my look at this is going to be different from the ones before it. this is my absolute favorite song by bruce springsteen, and i just love the story tells. i always saw this song as and opening, middle, reflection, and end. the beginning was him and sandy on the 4th of july and watching the fireworks over eden. i love how he portrays how it "forces light into all the stoney faces left stranded" as in the people left with no one to love and who are left oin the darkness being forced into the light of the fireworks. he also mentions "switch blade lovers. so fast, so shiny, so sharp" as in the quick lovers who get together wioth people spur of the moment and its over quicklly, but they are usually beautiful all the same. the rest of the first verse is also the beginning and describes the boys who play in the arcades and the "latin lovers" who dance on the shore under the show and chase the new york girls who are visiting. the chorus is what brings me into the middle section of the song and it speaks strongly to me. "the aurora is rising behind us" was always one of my favorite lines and i believe it refers to the "aurora" or fealing that rises behind them as they walk and enjoy themselves together, the love the flows from them. the peirs lights are the light to their life as they live on the pedir and the carnival life refer to their wild life they life. he also mentions "love me tonight for i may never see you again" as in this may be their last night together and he wants to make it the best. the middle brings me into him telling her of his life as it is now. i can picture him telling her about the different people who walk the beaches and live in that are and how he has "got tired of hangin round in them dusty arcades, bangin them pleasure machines" as in he has become tired looking around for women to court. he is tired of chasin random girls around in an attempt at true love. the tilt a whire is a section of the song i always saw literally, as in he is telling her of hoiw he got caught on there one night and didnt think he would ever be able to gert off, but i also see it as a metaphor for the twisted life he lives and how he didnt think he could escape it. teh chorus again ends this section for me and goes into the reflection area. there is on echange in this choprus, and its the line "our carnival life on the water, runnin laughin underneath the bordwalk with the bosses daughter" which is something i see as him saying his life by the water and how he chases the bosses daughter to get her love under the board walk. the reflection is when i see him telling her of his ended relationship with the waitress he was seeing and how she said she "wont set herself on fire for him any more" and tehn he goes into describing her personality. it ends that little part bout her with the dressed like star in those sea side bars and she was parked with lover boy out on the kokomo, as in she was away from him all night and he saw her woith another guy. then goes into the cops finally busting madame marie, which i never fully understand, but i saw as shes getting caught for that and hes afraid if getting taken out too for something he may have done, or he relizes that shes gunna leave, and likes the idea of a new place, and tells her that she shouls "quit this scene too" and then it goes into the ending the ending was always the simple ending chorus again, as he promises her that if she loves him tonight he will love her forever, and not just go off and find another girl when its all over. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Atlantic City Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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you know, just to give a note on bruce in general, i think many of his songs are uterally amazing and confusing, but thats what makes them so great. none of his songs have one specific meaning, but many stories and lessons and relevations weaved into his words. many of them have what seems to be a key focus and then have lines and verses that completely get away from the point. they are all very confusing in a way and often the true meaning is very complex, nut generally easy to understand, and thats why many of my comments on his songs are oh so long, because there is just so much you can say about them. i absolutely love bruce and am trying to get tickets to his most recent visit to the east coast!!! :)))) |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Jungleland Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i have loved this song since the first time i heard up, which was one night at i believe 2 a.m. i was sitting with my dad and we were on i tunes looking up bruce songs and we heard this one and i juts had to hear the rest, so i bought it and have loved it ever since. it is classic bruce with a classic meaning and is just amazing to listen to. this sopng has many meanings to me but i hear it mainly as a love ballad of the magic rat and the barefoot girl. i never understood it at first, but grew to understand the lyrics more overtime (as i often do with bruce songs, i find it hard to understand his songs at first play) i see it as the rangers having a homecoming in harlem, and the magic rat drives over the state line to see the barefoot girl. they decide to get together and disapear down flamingo lane. then they get chased by the cops down the hard streets of the city (the kids down here live just like shadows) then when it gets to "the midnight gangs assemble" its becoming a gang fight between the magic rats game and who ever the barefoot girl was origionally with. they get into "an opera down on the turn pike, there a ballet being fought out in the ally" untill the cops brake it up. but it keeps going on in other places untill it gets to the sax solo which portrays things beautifully without words. it plays about them being chased and the fights slowing out, gangs slowly winning battles and moving on, and the rat and the girl getting away, somewhat. then it turns to the slow "beneath the city 2 hearts beat" which is the two of them in the tunnels and then to "the bedrrom locked with whispers of soft refusal and then surrender" which i have always seen as the barefoot girl being with the rat and giving into loving him. then "in the tunnels up town, the rats own dream guns him down" is where the magic rat goes to fight and is shot down for loving and being with the barefoot girl. (you see, she was with a guy from the other gang and he stole her away so he got shot down for it) and no one watches as the ambulence pulls his body away or as the barefoot girl shuts the bedroom light off. (i always saw that part strongle, i saw her looking away in pity and sadness, not really dispair, like she really knew it was going to happen and felt guilty for it, almost as if she was expecting it and just went on with life from there, i saw her as very selfish and wrong) and then the "death waltz" is the gangs fighting back over the loss of the rat and the difference between what they fantasized would happen and what really did (whats flesh and whats fantasy) and i never really understood the poets part, but i guess i see it as the "poets" being a metaphor for the gang boys who dont talk about any of it or interfear with the other boys fights(just stan dback and let it all be) but then they try to find that one fight of their own thats going to make it for them, to prove themselfs, but they wind up "wounded, and not even dead". bruce rights this as if seeing death as the better option in this situation, as it might well be for all of the painj and hardship they will go through from the other gangs and their own for their lawsess. and then he ends it exactly how it should be. "tonight in jungleland" as he refers to the city as the classic, wild jungle that it really is. |
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