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| Joe Jackson – A Slow Song Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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@[balrimple:9631] I'd never thought of "Musick has Charm to sooth a savage Breast" consciously. But now that you mention it, yes. You've tapped into something hiding in plain sight. (I'll return to that image in a moment.) I've no more direct evidence than you do, but I'm struck by your idea JJ's lyrics continue in the rhythm and form of Congreve's (play, yes, but, here, his) lyric poetry. A lyric or poem about loss of some kind is so prevalent among those to which I'm attracted that it also didn't occur to me to nail down that theme in Slow Song. It's one of the many aspects of the song lyric that work in contrast with each other: The blooming of romance and the end (loss) of a classic romantic night out; the end (loss) of courting with a Slow Song beginning closer physical/emotional contact and possible/likely physical relations. My intent on bringing up the gay romance in my first comment is precisely to bring up a key lyric meaning that is also hiding in plain sight. Joe doesn't draw attention to his sexuality in his music ever, even when he eludes to it in a twist on the cliche of a strong and silent man, as a "strong and silent sound" (chills!) in the central metaphor of Slow Song, "a strong and silent sound / To pick me up and undress me", or comments on gay stereotypes, as in Real Men and other songs.So, I'm absolutely in agreement with you asserting that he does not want his lyrics to be pinned down as to meaning. Heck, I'm reasonably confident that his personal sexuality and gender identity itself is more fluid (not to be pinned down) than either / or, black or white. But some songs, people would do well to at least become aware of the probably gay influence, gay experience, that inspires and inform the important talented songwriters who embraced and embrace the value of writing songs for everyone rather than follow the completely unremarkable and not remarked upon songs written so often by boys for girls, by men for women, using male and female pronouns, compared to the disproportionately few songs with same-sex pronouns. Like i said, it hides in plain sight, deserving of being outlined and seen as part of the tapestry of songwriting. |
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| Fucked Up – Baiting the Public Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Please, I'd appreciate if you'd fix the errors. I'm only now listening to & loving this album. |
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| Future Islands – Seasons (Waiting on You) Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| An alternate just occurred to me (but I haven't been able to locate a source to confirm or deny it): "As it breaks, the Summer wore" | |
| Future Islands – Seasons (Waiting on You) Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I don't have an alternate suggestion, but I really doubt the word is "war", in "As it breaks, the Summer war". |
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| Michael Franti & Spearhead – Everyone Deserves Music Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Simply a celebration of the power of music to build bridges and connect with people across apparently unbreechable divisions. Simply one of my favorite songs of the 00s. Why isn't this song a well-known hit? Maybe if, like Elvis Costello's version of Nick Lowe's (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding, it got used in a few movie soundtracks over the decades, people wouldn't ignore it (like anyone who wasn't a committed Lowe or Costello fan did with P,L&U until the late 90s). |
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| Joe Jackson – Real Men Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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re: "This song is about how society is changing men for the worse." I think you've got it dead wrong. Jackson questions whether Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne and James Dean are valid role models for men in the video. Without the video, the song on its own, the tone of voice with which he sings can best be described as "bitter"; and questions whether being the kind of "real man" people think of when people think of real men is actually an authentic (real) man at all. |
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| Joe Jackson – A Slow Song Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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It's most likely a gay romance song. I'm not being disrespectful at all with that. I just want to put it out there, SOMEWHERE, that this two people in the song are likely both men. Considering real but rarely spoken of truths about the privately held, discrete nature of Mr Jackson. I --LOVE-- this song, and love its frustration with DJs, and its image of being carried to bed. There's nothing like this lyric anywhere else in popular culture. And there it is, at the end of Jackson's best-selling album, one of the best selling albums of its time. A Good Thing. |
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| Lady GaGa – Born This Way Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| apology to ashley15: I mistakenly clicked the down arrow when I meant to click the up arrow and I can't change my vote. So: Sorry, I didn't intend to add a negative point to your score. | |
| Frank Turner – I Still Believe Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Just posted a bio for Turner (that I grabbed, with attribution, from the site of a venue he'll play soon), and included this link to Turner and his band the Sleeping Souls' September 20, 2012 appearance on Conan O'Brien playing this song - This is one of the best performances by a band on a talk show I've ever seen. http://teamcoco.com/video/frank-turner-i-still-believe-09/20/12 |
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| Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – Tigers Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| sorry, I didn't get the reason why you wrote about phone numbers, and when I glanced at your reply I too-quickly flagged it as spam, but now I see it's not. | |
| XTC – The Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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One also has to deal with the fact that the song's turning point (and the video's) is on the line : "Peter merely said Any kind of love is alright" ... which doesn't exactly bring JFK to mind. And does to me bring Jesus to mind, but maybe 50% of his followers would dispute that. Which returns me to EBF's insightful line: "[he] advocates a more tolerant, progressive, and inclusive society." |
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| XTC – The Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I was just now watching the video (for the first time in many years) and among its many style elements it uses a lot of JFK-related images, so I'm clear that Partridge and XTC didn't shy away from associating the song with JFK. But it does shy away from being *ABOUT* JFK. Much as people hear seem to want to "figure this one out" and be done with it, if XTC wanted it to be about Jesus or JFK or JFK's Jesus-like qualities, they would have written a different song than this. The distinction to make is between using familiar (forgive this fancy word) iconographies to draw peoples' attention, and the bigger points made. I think "EvolutionBeanFeast" (the first post here) put it best: "In fact, he is no-one in particular. Rather, he is a generic figurehead who advocates a more tolerant, progressive, and inclusive society. The unfortunate truth is that there have been a great many such individuals throughout history who have had their efforts for good stymied through various means - some of them fatal. " | |
| Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – Tigers Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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re: "I can't be sure of how a lyric I want to go reads" I meant to type: I can't be sure of how a lyric I want to *quote* reads |
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| Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – Tigers Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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re: "I'm the 1-800, you can vent" I *think* I agree that I'm hearing "vent" instead of "bend". But I came here/to songmeanings.net specifically because the one other word I considered made some kind of sense other than "vent" IS "bend". Re-listening, I'm pretty sure I hear a "t" at the end of the word, so I'm going with "vent". Wish I could have found lyrics posted at Malkmus' site (I even searched its Board, for "lyric", and came up with nada. I've written a review (to be posted in about a week at GAAMC.org, click on Challenge Online), and I hate that I can't be sure of how a lyric I want to go reads *precisely*, but what else can I do? By the way, the line seem more clever to me if it's written: "I'm the 1-800-You-Can-Vent" -- as if it's one of those phone numbers that have mnemonic letters. Also, thanks for hearing "the "The's"" correctly -- I'd heard it as "the buzz", and I was clearly wrong. Wish I could help with the last line, but all I'm fairly certain of is the end does sound like "in stee/al" |
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| Dropkick Murphys – The State of Massachusetts Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Thanks, Guv. | |
| Dropkick Murphys – The State of Massachusetts Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It looks like I'm way late to this song - I just heard it for the first time today, at YouTube, and discovered this site today for the first time too, looking for accurate lyrics. I posted the following comments about the lyrics at a YouTube fan video that included lyrics with mistakes, so one of the things I mention refers to one of their mistakes, and not to the version on this page. But besides that, I remain baffled by how this song works for DKM fans. If anyone (who is paying attention to this song at this late date?) could read my thoughts and help me understand what, if anything, I'm missing, I'd appreciate it. Thanks. === http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_oddARGt3k The State of Massachusetts - Dropkick Murphys w/ lyrics 1st:I love Dropkick Murphys ...but, for all the power they bring to this song's performance, it doesn't make up for how much these lyrics fail. I *think* they're trying to write a complex, nuanced situation into a 4 minute song. Instead it's a mess. The line "The posion took your babies" is the worst offender. This video is the 3rd online place I've found "posion" instead of "poison": Are you all copying each others' mistakes? If only the word "posion" existed and had a meaning that explained what the line and the verse is saying. Is poison a metaphor for Massachusetts? Really? After over a decade of representing Quincy, Boston and MA, they're calling their homestate poison?!? It doesn't work: It's just a slur. (And "children or the night"? Huh?) If DKM really wants to saddle their entire home state with equating their disgust with *1* decision by *1* department and *1* court, it's more than a sloppy metaphor, it's a break with their longstanding identity. Explain,anyone? PS: [Also,] Unless the band is singing from the point of view of a persona -some character who doesn't reflect the band's feelings -the line "I don't care about the past" contradicts years of the band caring deeply about traditions. [It's the most non-genuine thing I've ever heard from DKM's lips, a band I count on for being genuine.] I try to imagine who else might be saying that line, but the fact that I haven't any guidance from the song about who to guess it is is another big problem with the lyrics. |
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