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| Radical Face – Welcome Home Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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That was my first interpretation of the line "Here, beneath my lungs, I feel your thumbs press into my skin again"
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| Steely Dan – Do It Again Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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my bad.after checking the album credits it is an electric sitar.guess the video fooled me.my apologies. |
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| Steely Dan – Do It Again Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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looks like a fender telecaster to me he's playing in the 1973 video.i can make my les paul sound like a sitar with the right effects added to it.a sitar,cmon. |
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| The Cowsills – Hair Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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at that time the grateful dead were a broke struggling band while the cowsills were multi millionairs estamated between 10-30 million.sorry for the misspelling.PS.on you tube there is a clip where he gets to that verse then stops and says 'that's before,you know"meaning before the deadhead following.something like that. |
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| Blues Image – Ride Captain Ride Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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HarleyRider is correct.seventy three keys on the piano.refer to wikipedia.google for the meaning of any song.Twas brilley the slivey cove. |
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| Robin Trower – Day of the Eagle Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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i think he been heartbroken by a woman and now isn't going to rush into another relation."living in the day of the eagle,eagle not the dove".maybe hendrix learned some licks from trower.trower goes way back. |
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| James – Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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The idea of surviving against the odds is an echo of James' career as a whole. "Getting Away With It (All Messed Up)" was one of the songs on the soundtrack for the 2005 film "The Big White," which featured Robin Williams, Giovanni Ribisi, and Holly Hunter.
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| The Animals – Sky Pilot Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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The war in question is usually assumed to be the Vietnam War, though the bagpipes and apparent sounds of a dive bomber in the interlude, taken with the UK nationality of the artists, may suggest WWII. |
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| Midnight Oil – Beds Are Burning Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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change a few words and the song could be about the native americans.stolen land,broken treaties.there's probably 20% of the original native population left due to all the whiteman with his thick and empty head.bury me at wounded knee.it's the great white buffalo,gonna make a final stand. |
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| Gordon Lightfoot – The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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ii watched that ship go down the st. claire river ,go under the blue water bridge and head out into lake huron.huge ship at that time.my father was on that ship when it docked at the shell oil refinery near sarnia ont.they were there to refuel which was part of my dads job when he worked for shell oil.excellent song.use to crank it up when i drove to work around 4:30 am.sounds very errie at that time.this wasn't to long after the song was released.i worked on some of these freighters when they unloaded at the grain elevators .in sarnia.the holds are huge and the work was dangerous. |
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| Harvey Danger – Save It for Later Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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nglish Beat singer/guitarist Dave Wakeling says of this song: "I wrote it when I was a teenager. I wrote it before The Beat (outside of the US, the group is known as The Beat) started. And it was about turning from a teenager to someone in their 20s, and realizing that the effortless promise for your teenage years was not necessarily going to show that life was so simple as you started to grow up. So it was about being lost, about not really knowing your role in the world, trying to find your place in the world. So, you couldn't find your own way in the world, and you'd have all sorts of people telling you this, that, and the other, and advising you, and it didn't actually seem like they knew any better. So it was like keep your advice to yourself. Save it - for later."
Listeners often find salacious subtexts in songs when in fact, none exist. In this case, however, it does. Wakeling explains: "The actual hook line itself was just a dirty joke, I just thought it was hilarious that you could get in a song: 'save it – comma – for later – F-E-double L-A-T-O-R.' So I thought it'd be really neat to get that in a song and everybody would be singing it. I didn't know it was going to be a joke that lasted for 30 years." (Read Dave's full interview in the Songfacts Interviews. His website is davewakeling.com.) |
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| The English Beat – Save It For Later Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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nglish Beat singer/guitarist Dave Wakeling says of this song: "I wrote it when I was a teenager. I wrote it before The Beat (outside of the US, the group is known as The Beat) started. And it was about turning from a teenager to someone in their 20s, and realizing that the effortless promise for your teenage years was not necessarily going to show that life was so simple as you started to grow up. So it was about being lost, about not really knowing your role in the world, trying to find your place in the world. So, you couldn't find your own way in the world, and you'd have all sorts of people telling you this, that, and the other, and advising you, and it didn't actually seem like they knew any better. So it was like keep your advice to yourself. Save it - for later."
Listeners often find salacious subtexts in songs when in fact, none exist. In this case, however, it does. Wakeling explains: "The actual hook line itself was just a dirty joke, I just thought it was hilarious that you could get in a song: 'save it – comma – for later – F-E-double L-A-T-O-R.' So I thought it'd be really neat to get that in a song and everybody would be singing it. I didn't know it was going to be a joke that lasted for 30 years." (Read Dave's full interview in the Songfacts Interviews. His website is davewakeling.com.) |
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| The Who – Love, Reign O'er Me Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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The song concerns the main character of Quadrophenia, Jimmy, having a personal crisis and stealing a boat to go off to a small island.
As Pete Townshend described the song:
[It] refers to Meher Baba's one time comment that rain was a blessing from God; that thunder was God's Voice. It's another plea to drown, only this time in the rain. Jimmy goes through a suicide crisis. He surrenders to the inevitable, and you know, you know, when it's over and he goes back to town he'll be going through the same shit, being in the same terrible family situation and so on, but he's moved up a level. He's weak still, but there's a strength in that weakness. He's in danger of maturing. |
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| Blue Rodeo – Hasn't Hit Me Yet Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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perfect song to the last ten months of my life.I guess it hasn't hit me yet.and to hellfirecan another song with lake ontario named in it is "the wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald".it went down the same year you were born.my dad was on that ship. |
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| Nazareth – This Flight Tonight Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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in my opinion this band had one of the best guitar players in the industry.Manny Charlton.now they tour the classic rock scene without him.great song also.check out rolling stones top 100 guitar players.joni is on it,but not manny..go figure!? |
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| Tommy Tutone – Jenny (867-5309) Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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i'm not sure if he knows her or not.he seems to know where she lives,cause at the end of the video he is looking through her window then is being arrested and dragged away by the police. |
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| Blue Öyster Cult – Unknown Tongue Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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An unknown tongue is a language that the listener does not understand. It is to be avoided because it serves no purpose.the song is about an adolesant teen becoming sexualy aware. |
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| Spandau Ballet – True Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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has anyone ever thought of the name of the band?to me it refers to the dogfights of ww1.spandau was the name of the machine gun mounted on the wing of the german biplane and the ballet was the dogfight itself,being that these planes didn't fly more than 125 mph it looked like they were dancing when they did their dives and rolls and turns.looked like a ballet in the air.thats my interpetation. |
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| Steppenwolf – The Pusher Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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this song was written by Hoyt Axton.as was "snowblind friend"you see the father in gremlins?thats him.he wrote one of if not the first drug songs "cocain blues" |
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| Status Quo – Pictures Of Matchstick Men Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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excellent song! some lyrics are wrong.no death or murder, just lost love and getting over it.time heals all wounds."when will this haunting stop your face it just won't leave me alone"who's with her now"pictures of matchstick men and you"mirages of matchstick men and you"All i ever see is them andYOU"you don't laugh when you sing about death or murder unnless your a sociopath.long live the psychedlic era man.oh yea "you.you in the sky,you with this guy you make men cry you lie"and"when i look in their direction gone".i play this daily on my 57 gibson standard and fuzz wah with a modern twist.there are only 7 simple chords and a few notes that make this a garage psych classic.maybe your better off watching teletubbies.kids!? |
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| The Yardbirds – Dazed and Confused Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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mr no name is correct.the yardbirds used the original lyrics by jake holmes.saw them at the london blues fest.there is also a alternate version as well.search for jake holmes on the web.the album is called the underground sounds of jake holmes. |
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| Led Zeppelin – Dazed and Confused Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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this song was stolen from jake holmea undeground fock rock musician from the 60's.it was beefed up and the lyrics were changed when zep released it.the yardbirds used the original lyrics and did'nt have that irritating plant doing that screaaming through pages bow solo.check out the site the theiving magpies.the dubious recording practices of the yardbirds and led zepplin they would take someones song annd not credit the original artist.i balieve there is a lawsuit pending between jake holmes and the magpies.he could receive millions inn lost revenue for that song.do your research people! |
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