| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced? Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| "The Experience" was a code reference for Acid in the early '60s, Heads would ask "Have you had The Experience?". I think the group's name and this song are probably based on that. | |
| Jefferson Airplane – D.C.B.A.-25 Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I get that second verse as: If you don't find happiness/the full pleasure fields in the Sun". Ah but that is a lovely song...defines the difference between Balling and base promiscuity. | |
| The Beatles – Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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As I recall, I was still in my teens when I first heard this song & as was my wont I meditated long on the meaning of the lyrics. Eventually it occured to me that John Lennon was prone to write "nonsense" lyrics to produce exactly that effect on the listener - to set their minds to wondering. It was also a custom of the Beatles to write "filler" lines while composing. just to keep the lyric flowing. A good example of this is the line "The movement you need is on your shoulder" in "Hey Jude" which McCartney intended to change but was convinced by Lennon to keep. It is entirely possible that the phrase "Norwegian wood" has no meaning. The song itself has the sense of being a self-satire of boy-meets-girl tunes of the early Beatle days and its being on "Rubber Soul", which is essentially the first of the Psychedelic period albums, tends to support this. Then again, maybe the girl played the Hardinger fiddle and he burned that. We'll never know. |
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