| Squeeze – Up The Junction Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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He misses his ex-girlfriend and daughter. He asks her to write to him and keep in touch but she won't. The "Railway Arms" is a pub but I like your alternative meaning too ;-) |
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| Simon and Garfunkel – America Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think it’s the story of a slightly awkward second or third date. The man in the story has hitchhiked alone from Saginaw to meet his friend Kathy in Pittsburgh. The line “let us be lovers” suggests that they haven’t yet reached that stage in their relationship, so they don’t actually know each other that well. So, they set off on a road trip to New York together and share a few jokes at first but the conversation and banter soon dries up. He stares at the scenery, she reads a magazine and then falls asleep (It’s only a six hour journey according to Google Maps!). Only while she’s asleep can he admit to himself and her that things hadn’t lived up to his expectations and their relationship wasn’t going to ease the empty, aching feeling in his heart. |
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| Eliza Doolittle – Moneybox Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| "Don't jingle your change cells" should be "Don't jingle your change sir" as in don't try and tempt me with your money because there are more important things in life. | |
| The Beatles – All Together on the Wireless Machine Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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A "wireless" is an old-fashioned name for a radio. Kenny Everett was a well known zany British DJ and the song does appear to be genuine. You can read more about it here:- http://lifeofthebeatles.blogspot.com/2009/08/all-together-on-wireless-machine.html |
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| B.o.B – Airplanes Part 1 Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It seems to me that the chorus of this song was inspired by the Billy Bragg song "A New England" which contains the lyrics:- "I saw two shooting stars last night I wished on them but they were only satellites Is it wrong to wish on space hardware I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care" A cover of version of the song was a number 7 UK hit for Kirsty MacColl in 1984. |
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| Paul Simon – Graceland Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"Empty sockets" = Empty eye sockets like those on a skeleton. I.e. His travelling companions are his nine year old son, the ghosts of his dead relatives and the skeletons of his past. |
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| Paul Simon – Graceland Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"Empty sockets" = Empty eye sockets like those on a skeleton. I.e. His travelling companions are his nine year old son, the ghosts of his dead relatives and the skeletons of his past. |
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| Paul Simon – Diamonds On the Soles of Her Shoes Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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“She’s got diamonds on the soles of her shoes”. Just an expression like “She was born with a silver spoon in her mouth”. I.e. She comes from a wealthy family. “She was physically forgotten….etc”. He ignores her and treats her as you would an inanimate object like your car keys. She accuses him of only being interested in her money. “She makes the sign of a teaspoon, he makes the sign of a wave”. Sexual imagery (i.e. spooning) |
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| Keane – Perfect Symmetry Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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“In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make” sang The Beatles. This song echoes the same sentiment. It’s a song about Jihad, the holy war. The futility of “an eye for an eye” revenge attacks from both sides. Where will it all end? Fanatical religious extremists hide in “churches” and send suicide bombers out onto London’s buses. They won’t be going to “heaven”, even if there is one. As they prepare to meet their maker, maybe the hatred will be replaced by love? “Love is all you need”. |
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| Morrissey – Late Night, Maudlin Street Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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A man recalls the night that he left the home where he spent his adolescent years. As he thinks back, a series of random, half-remembered incidents flicker through his mind:- The first time he met his childhood sweetheart. An abortive suicide attempt. A late night incident which resulted in a head wound requiring stitches. A lift home from a lovelorn van driver. Powercuts during the miner’s strike of 1972. His girlfriend daring him to pinch some jeans from a clothes-line. The shared nervous embarassment of seeing each other naked. The traumatic arrest of his girlfriend and the death of her mother and grandmother. On the night he left, he confided in his girlfriend that his time there had been wholly unhappy. He would be pleased to leave and felt that he wouldn’t be missed. However, looking back the catalogue of memories have stirred feelings of great affection for his old flame. He wonders what became of her and hopes that she’s found the happiness they never shared. |
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| The Smiths – A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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A man is taken ill suffering from hallucinations brought on by dehydration and mental fatigue. The doctor advises him to go easy on the coffee, while his father suggests that he needs to stop fretting about life’s complexities and spice up his life with a proper relationship. The man insists that he’s fine but admits that he can’t understand why he should still be single. Reflecting on previous relationships, he recalls ex-lovers who he now considers to be ugly and weak. They used him for their own ends and went on to attain the happiness he craves, without him! He resolves to make an extra effort to rectify the situation by rekindling a relationship with one particular old flame. In doing so, he hopes to strike a blow for the rejected and lonely everywhere. |
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| Athlete – Wires Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"There's dry blood on your wrist, your dry blood on my fingertip"? The baby is in an incuabator connected to a drip (wire) and blood has dried on the baby's wrist where the drip was inserted. The father is unable to hold his baby as she's in an incubator ("curled up on your own, in a plastic box"). All he can do is carefully reach inside the incubator and tenderly wipe away the dried blood with his fingertip. |
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| The Smiths – Never Had No One Ever Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"20 years, seven months and 27 days. Strictly speaking, this would date life's awakening for Morrissey as the 18th of January, 1980”. Nobody remembers the first few years of their lives and even Morrissey probably wasn’t born miserable. Maybe Morrissey’s can put a date to his earliest unhappy memory and that happened 20 years, 7 months and 27 days before he wrote the song. This would make him about 5 years old when his “really bad dream” began. |
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| The Smiths – This Charming Man Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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A teenage boy is stranded miles from anywhere and faces the prospect of a long walk home through wild, hilly terrain. He’s just considering whether the arduous trek through nature will “make a man of him” when a car pulls up and he’s offered a lift. He knows that one should never accept a lift from a stranger but the driver seems friendly enough and the cars comfortable upholstery does look very inviting…. As they travel along, they make conversation and the man enquires what the boys plans for the evening are. The boy replies that he will be staying home as feels the clothes in his wardrobe are not up to scratch. The man points out that it would be a real shame for a handsome young lad to stay home for so shallow a reason. He advises him that all the fancy jewellery he’s wearing is not really necessary and the money could perhaps be better spent on other things. The boy who is obviously fairly vain and fashion-conscious takes offence at these remarks. Although not wishing to offend his benefactor he quietly thinks to himself “Who does this guy think he is? He’s got ideas above his station” and sarcastically, he tells himself “Well of course he must be right, after all, he knows so much about these things!”. |
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| The Smiths – This Night Has Opened My Eyes Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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A teenager secretly gives birth and bathes her baby in the nearby, murky river. Abandoned by her feckless older lover, she is unwilling and unable to care for the baby, so swaddles the infant in an old newspaper and leaves her to be discovered by a stranger. As time passes on, the child she abandoned continues to dominate her thoughts. That brief, magical bond between mother and daughter has left a lasting impression and changed her as a person, Matured her. Awoken her to the sometimes harsh realities of life. She wonders what will become of the child. Maybe she’ll grow up to be a talented writer? Maybe not? How will she ever know? Perhaps she should never have given her up? But then how could such a young girl cope alone with a small baby? By losing the child, she saved her own life. Didn’t she? She’s never quite sure, neither happy or sad. Torn between the life she is living and the life she gave up on that fateful night. |
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