| Love And Money – Jocelyn Square Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I can't believe no one has written a comment for this brilliant song. It reminds me of the time after the break-up of my first serious relationship. The song came out at about the same time and I remember listening to it non-stop. It has all the futility of desperately hanging on to something that is over, the hope for a note from your ex, the feeling of having felt all along that something was brooding underneath and the constant thinking of your lost love. And yes, it was always raining for me in those moments. Loved the song, still do. |
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| Billy Joel – The Ballad Of Billy The Kid Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I love this song. The way Joel blends the Western genre with his own story is amazing. It's the simplicity of changing the last stanza by simply changing place and replacing Billy's gun by a six-pack of beer and yet still keeping the bold and boastful tone of a young nobody fancying fame and adventure's ahead that makes it special to me. | |
| George Michael – Mother's Pride Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I don't think that the mother `wants´ to encourage the boy to become a soldier. What the lyrics suggest is rather that there's already something in mother and son that makes them both fall for the hero concept. The second stanza supports this as it is enough for him to `hear the band´ to follow in his father's steps. There is no active involvement on side of the mother here, but she doesn't try to dissuade her son, either. The appearance of country's eyes and mother's pride in the same stanza suggest that the mother cannot help feeling proud despite the fact that she knows her son will die (`in her heart...to lose a son´). She will keep up the myth of a hero's death and pass it on because what would her son have died for if he didn't die for some noble cause. By keeping up this tradition, she will contribute to further loss. What I like is how the passage from boy to man is worked out here, ending with the dead son and the bitter irony that the last two verses hold. I also find it stunning that you can always observe this phenomenon whenever there is war: those who died always died a hero ... |
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| George Michael – Mother's Pride Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I don't think that the mother `wants´ to encourage the boy to become a soldier. What the lyrics suggest is rather that there's already something in mother and son that makes them both fall for the hero concept. The second stanza supports this as it is enough for him to `hear the band´ to follow in his father's steps. There is no active involvement on side of the mother here, but she doesn't try to dissuade her son, either. The appearance of country's eyes and mother's pride in the same stanza suggest that the mother cannot help feeling proud despite the fact that she knows her son will die (`in her heart...to lose a son´). She will keep up the myth of a hero's death and pass it on because what would her son have died for if he didn't die for some noble cause. By keeping up this tradition, she will contribute to further loss. What I like is how the passage from boy to man is worked out here, ending with the dead son and the bitter irony that the last two verses hold. I also find it stunning that you can always observe this phenomenon whenever there is war: those who died always died a hero ... |
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