| Fleetwood Mac – Sugar Daddy Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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These lyrics are so out of character for Christine... I'm thinking she was painting a picture of someone else, not her. |
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| 'Til Tuesday – Coming Up Close Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[fusehub:38765] So what you're saying, basically, is he wasn't a blue-pilled cuck and was turned off mostly by her "strong and empowered" feminist ideals which were fooling her to believe she was bringing more value to his table than he was assessing. Hmmm... :) | |
| 'Til Tuesday – Coming Up Close Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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And, as usual, no sooner than after I've just posted the question, I think my answer just arrived. "Coming up close"... The phrase "coming up" is the same as "ending up" and the use of "close" is like "close but no cigar". So, she "came up close" but not close enough to actually win, even though to her it seemed like "a done deal" until he inexplicably vanished. |
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| 'Til Tuesday – Coming Up Close Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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My question about these lyrics pertains to the title itself and the way it's used in the chorus. What does "coming up close" actually mean? I can't think of a time or an instance where I would ever use that phrase to describe something. And why does everything sound like "Welcome home" and "come home"? I'm inferring that's the way he was making her feel while they were in each other's presence... but I've been wrong before. |
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| 'Til Tuesday – Coming Up Close Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[Digi:38757]-G Despite being 21 when this song was initially released, I never personally discovered it until I was 35 in 2001. I'm 55 today and it's still one of the most captivating and mesmerizing songs I've ever heard. The inventive melodies, the lead bass - as you said - all the sparse and tastefully executed flourishes from the piano and guitars, especially towards the end... It really paints an image in the listeners mind. And I agree... THIS is THE Til Tuesday song. It was the 2nd single from that album... but I never heard it on the radio. It should have been a hit. | |
| Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods – Billy, Don't Be a Hero Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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One of my all-time favorite hits from my childhood back in 1975. I used to think this was a Viet Nam story since that was the current war occurring when the song was written and recorded but after thinking about it... The only "soldier blues" I ever heard about were those fighting for the North during the American "Civil War" (1860-1865). Also, "I need a volunteer to ride out" (or "up") implies the use of a horse, therefore, I've concluded the setting for this one is more than a century earlier than the song itself. Also, the notion of a band marching along Main Street to encourage people to join in the effort also makes more sense from an 1860s perspective as opposed to the 1960s and '70s. And to top it off, before posting these words, I searched online in case there was some other kind of "solidier blues" of which I wasn't aware - and I found this link: https://www.lilesnet.com/patrioticmusic/billy.htm |
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| Ministry – NWO Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[pantera31:29415] Excellent, @[pantera31:29415], and written in March 2009! Very perceptive. I remember when N.W.O. was new and it seemed to me *then* to be just another way for leftists to bash Bush. On the other hand, I understood "New World Order" = "One World Government" and I was confused by how a Republican president could support such a totalitarian idea. It's much clearer to me now. Both sides were in on the game. That is why it never made sense to me how the people on the left could consider the Clintons or Obama as "corrective measures" against this. They only poured fuel on the fire. It's only when you realize that the establishmentarians running both sides of the equation were / are N.W.O. lackies, that the full picture begins to emerge. Ministry were correct to use this song to bring awareness to this menace against humanity, but they were *wrong* to use it to encourage support for the "opposing party" because there wasn't one. | |
| Fleetwood Mac – Behind The Mask Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[adaminoacids32:28610] Yes. In short, she's awakening or awakened to the fact she's dealing with a narcissist and she's in the process of deciding to discard them before they have an(other) opportunity to abuse and discard her. | |
| Melissa Manchester – Midnight Blue Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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To me this song doesn't necessarily imply divorce but rather a formerly good relationship which has ended but perhaps not permanently. I visualize her alone, late at night, feeling some regret (i.e. midnight blues) yet hopeful for some form of mutual reconciliation if not full-blown restoration - if only a different, better and probably slower approach could be taken compared to the way it occurred before. There is also a hint of selfish motivation in her words which would trouble me if they were said to me under such circumstances, unless I knew both parties were consciously seeking to establish some "interdependence" for the sake of the relationship as opposed to some temporary affection just to get through a needy night. |
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| Don Henley – The End of the Innocence Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Beating plowshares into swords is the reversal of a classic Bible verse about beating swords into plowshares. | |
| Don Henley – The End of the Innocence Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| You're trying to deal rationally with an emotional individual. Think about it. :) | |
| Don Henley – The End of the Innocence Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| No, you can't listen to good music anymore without being bombarded with crazed, anti-American, socialist rants. | |
| Don Henley – The End of the Innocence Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Yeah, that's what I was kinda wantin' to know, too. :) | |
| Foster the People – Pumped Up Kicks Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Every time yet another school shooting occurs now, this song comes immediately to mind and I wonder how many radio stations around the world are playing it on the same day - because it's a cool song, musically, and there's good money to be made from advertisers when you're playing the most popular stuff. It should be used as the theme song for all future Columbine documentaries. No doubt more people would watch them if it is. People would be whistling along to the sight of their trench coats and stuff. Great subject material here! It's so awesome to see people being inspired to write songs like this so they can make a lot of money. They should sing (and whistle) it at all the Occutard rallies because it's about rootin' for the underdog. Knowhutimsayin'? | |
| Eurythmics – Regrets Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I always thought this was one of the best tracks on "Touch" but I've never had any idea whatsoever about what the lyrics could possibly mean - although they're very cool. They paint an impressionistic picture but of specifically what I really can't say. "Fifteen senses are on my plate" and "All the things that you love to hate" sounds a bit moon-June-spoon to me but oh well. What in particular is being regretted here? There doesn't seem to be enough sensible context to form any real idea about that. A-yubba-dub-dum-dum-dum... (And I mean that sincerely.) |
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| Tears for Fears – When In Love With A Blind Man Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Sounds like it's drawn from the same subject material as this: You better love loving and you better behave Woman in chains, woman in chains Trades her soul for skin and bones Sells the only thing she owns Woman in chains, woman in chains |
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| Tears for Fears – When In Love With A Blind Man Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Always loved this song from the first time I played it as the B-side of my "Head Over Heels" 45 in 1985. Lyrically it sounds like something Roland wrote about his parents - kinduva precursor to "Woman In Chains" from the next TFF album, "The Seeds Of Love". This song seems to be a bit unfinished or underdeveloped which probably has a lot to do with why it was relegated to the B-side of a single. Regardless, its unfinished quality is what gives it much of its charm. The abrupt-slash-premature ending was always a point of interest with me. |
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| Pink Floyd – Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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For the best translation and explanation read this: http://web.archive.org/web/20071130024638/http://www.angelfire.com/home/FloydWaters/pinkfloyd/species.html |
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| Sam & Dave – Soul Man Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I've always wondered about that Woodstock bit in this song because it was a hit in 1967 - two years before Woodstock, the festival, happened in August 1969. | |
| Sam & Dave – Soul Man Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I've always wondered about that Woodstock bit in this song because it was a hit in 1967 - two years before Woodstock, the festival, happened in August 1969. | |
| Tears for Fears – Listen Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Now, having said that, can anyone explain why Tears For Fears would care to chant "birthday girl is not to blame" in *any* language (English included)? There seems to be an extreme lack of context here for that particular phrase to bear any meaningful meaning. | |
| Tears for Fears – Listen Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Try "cumpleano chica no hay que culparse" The "no hay" part is spoken together rapidly as if they were one syllable, not two (i.e. "noay"). Spanish-to-English translation: "Birthday girl is not to blame" http://translate.google.com/#es|en|cumpleano%20chica%20no%20hay%20que%20culparse "Preocuparse" adds too many syllables to the phrase, thus making it impossible to chant in time with the song. It also changes the translation to "Birthday girl not to worry" which seems incorrect. |
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| Tears for Fears – Last Days on Earth Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Easily the best track on "Everybody Loves A Happy Ending". But what's up with that album title? Methinks Roland's been spending a li'l too much time at the massage parlour after his tennis matches! lol |
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| Tears for Fears – Listen Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| If you listen to it very carefully you'll know! :) | |
| Tears for Fears – Listen Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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What is your source for the "soothe my feeling" lyric? I've loved this song for nearly 30 years now and it's always sounded like nonsensical vocal phrasing to me. More like "See-la-feel-ah". For all I can tell, it's the use of the human voice as an instrument as was the case with Clare Torry's masterful performance in Pink Floyd's "The Great Gig In The Sky". Obviously TFF doesn't want us to know if they're actual words and, if so, what they are - or else they'd have published them long ago. |
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| Tears for Fears – The Big Chair Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Watch the 1976 film, "Sybil," and you'll understand more about this track. You'll also discover where all the vocal samples came from. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_%281976_film%29 |
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| Tears for Fears – Listen Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I bought "Songs From The Big Chair" on vinyl in June 1985 and *always* loved this song more than any other on the whole album. It was anthemic to me. I also bought the 12" singles and *loved* "The Big Chair", "Sea Song", "Pharaohs" (another ambient track), and "When In Love With A Blind Man". Post-rock? I still don't know what that is. It's definitely ambient. The Spanish lyrics cited above seem to have 2 or 3 more syllables than I can hear being said in the song. |
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| Fleetwood Mac – Songbird Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I've listened to this song innumerable times since I first acquired it on vinyl in 1983 and every time it gives me chills as if it were the first time I ever heard it. It's a completely involuntary reaction with which I sometimes play a game to see if I can deliberately make it not happen - and I always lose. The first two lines cause me to think it's about the death of a loved one but most everything after suggests she is singing from within a love relationship in which she is presently and intensely involved. The somber tone, however, suggests separation and sadness. I've never inferred a single meaning from the lyrics of this song but rather multiple, often contradictory meanings - which may indicate the complexity in the situation in which the writer finds herself. |
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| Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Suite: Judy Blue Eyes Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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While I have loved this song since I was a teenager in the early 80s, I cannot call it - as others have - the the most beautiful song ever written because I have heard "Songbird" by Christine McVie, er, Fleetwood Mac. "Love Alive" by Heart and "I Honestly Love You" by Olivia Newton-John are runners up as well. And let's not forget Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music" and John Lennon's & Yoko Ono's "Cambridge, 1969" while we're at it. |
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| Yoko Ono – Ask The Dragon Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Ask the SongMeanings member why he's commenting on this song and he says, "Don't know. I'm just doing it." | |
| Gary Numan – I Can't Breathe Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Gary, please. Look beyond the physical and grasp the fact that the here and now is *not* all we may ever hope to have. | |
| Gary Numan – Little Invitro Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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"I can't believe that we'll never see your face." The problem with Gary's interpretation of his experience lies largely in this line. He has no faith and/or belief in life beyond the physical. If I were that way, I'd surely have felt the same when I lost my only two hopes of ever becoming a biological parent to two miscarriages in the mid-1990s. Thankfully, though, I'm not that way and I have full, complete expectations to one day meet my children face-to-face once I've graduated from life in this arrogant, depraved and nasty physical world. The loss is real but it's temporary and, in fact, gives me even greater reason to be excited about what lies beyond for me when the time comes for me to leave. Mankind has arrogantly and foolishly chosen to believe we have no need for God to manage the world for us. And God, being a perfect Gentleman - rather than beating us into submission - honors our decision and graciously steps aside, allowing us to demonstrate just how incapable of managing this world we are without Him. There is never-ending hunger and starvation in the world because mankind has chosen to go it alone rather than to turn to God for management of situations which are clearly beyond our control. Oh, the irony of man to then curse God and use the existence of hunger and starvation as proof there is no God! You have a choice to accept and believe the following or to ignore it and continue to wander through this life and this world cursing its imperfections: “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” -- 2 Chronicles 7:14 |
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| Gary Numan – Torn Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| How messed up. The lyrics to Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn" show up while attempting to read they lyrics to Gary Numan's "Torn". Completely different songs. I'd say we have a royal database ID mismatch occurring here. | |
| Gary Numan – Listen To My Voice Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Ignorantly blasphemous! I love Gary Numan too. So now that we've read what Gary has to say about "The Book", let's see what "The Book" has to say about Gary... :) 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. 24 Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. 25 For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 28And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, 29being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; 32 and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them. -- Romans 1, New American Standard Bible |
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| Gary Numan – Torn Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I've been a Gary Numan fan since I saw him perform "Cars" and "Praying To The Aliens" on Saturday Night Live. I like the mood this music creates although I lament the fact that Gary has completely lost the pioneering spirit and originality that once drew me to him like a magnet to steel. I like Nine Inch Nails. I bought "Pretty Hate Machine" on CD in April 1990. I don't need Gary pretending to be Trent. What a waste of Gary's time this is - and mine to listen to it. | |
| Gary Numan – A Prayer For The Unborn Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The book of Ecclesiastes is filled with perplexing ironies about the nature of life in this world. The writer has seen good men die young and evil men live long, wealthy lives. I've lost two children to miscarriage in my life and while it is indeed a sad and confusing experience to endure, I know that when I die I will finally meet them. The fact that I have been denied children in this temporary slice of my existence is really irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. The difference between Gary and me in this particular situation is that Gary has chosen to severely limit his vision of his own reality to only those things which he see and experiences in the physical. This isn't all there is. Gary is not professing a loss of faith in God as a result of the miscarriages he and his wife have been forced to endure. He never had faith beyond the physical to begin with - else he would understand how what he believes he's lost in this life isn't really lost... only delayed. |
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| Gary Numan – Fallen Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Excellent tune. Arguably the best and most original track on "Pure". Sounds more like a logical progression from the music Gary created in the 80s when he still had original musical thoughts bouncing around. In other words, this is more like real Gary Numan and less like fake Trent Reznor. |
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| Gary Numan – Pure Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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He is purified... He is sanctified... Inside you... He wants to f??k you like an animal. So original. |
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| Gary Numan – My Jesus Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I've been a Gary Numan fan since I saw him perform "Cars" and "Praying To The Aliens" on Saturday Night Live. I like the mood this music creates although I lament the fact that Gary has completely lost the pioneering spirit and originality that once drew me to him like a magnet to steel. I like Nine Inch Nails. I bought "Pretty Hate Machine" on CD in April 1990. I don't need Gary pretending to be Trent. What a waste of Gary's time this is - and mine to listen to it. Is it still considered trendy and brave to publicly declare oneself in opposition to and in defiance of Christians? Like what are they going to do to you if they catch you? Burn you at the stake? No. Why not declare yourself in opposition to and in defiance of rap or the mafia or drug cartels or anyone who might really do you some harm if you take the wrong exit off of some freeway in the bad part of town. |
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| Gary Numan – Rip Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I've been a Gary Numan fan since I saw him perform "Cars" and "Praying To The Aliens" on Saturday Night Live. I like the mood this music creates although I have no use for the lyrics and lament the fact that Gary has completely lost the pioneering spirit and originality that once drew me to him like a magnet to steel. I like Nine Inch Nails. I bought "Pretty Hate Machine" on CD in April 1990. I don't need Gary pretending to be Trent. What a waste of Gary's time this is - and mine to listen to it. | |
| Gene Simmons – Always Near You Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Who's singing those girly high notes at the end of this song? Surely it's not Gene! (???) Love this song. The lyrics seem to be more impressionist than specific/literal. |
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| Neil Diamond – I Am... I Said Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Q: Why didn't the chair hear him? A: It was rockin'! |
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| Joe Tex – Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I was hoping to come here tonight and learn what the general consensus is about the lyrics of this song. It's a little too complex for me to comprehend on my own. I have tried literally for years to understand it but I always come up empty-headed. I think it's about a man with broken hips meeting a woman with big, fat bumps in a disco, and he knows somebody named Leroy - but don't hold me to that. It's times like these I really regret not choosing to pursue that Ph.D. in Philosophy. | |
| Parry Gripp – Sandwich Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Where's the beef?!! | |
| Pet Shop Boys – Was That What It Was? Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I always believed this song was far too strong to be relegated to a B-Side and unreleased on Compact Disc until 1995. And yes, I do believe that's what it was. |
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| John Lennon – I Know (I Know) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Excellent interpretation, originl! I've read elsewhere that it's a thing written to Yoko but I think you've actually nailed it. The lifting of the "I've Got A Feeling" riff, the references to "Yesterday" and "Getting Better", etc... All very good points. I love this song. It's one I often forget even exists until the next time I go digging out "Mind Games" for yet another play-through... and then when it comes on I think, "Ah, yeah... That's such a great tune." Definitely one of John's most underrated and overlooked gems. How many Lennon/Beatles fans do you know who don't know this song or even that it exists? |
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| The White Stripes – Icky Thump Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| It's not an electric bagpipe *or* a fuckin keyboard douche you boneheads. It's R2-D2 having multiple orgasms. Jack only used his keyboard to "tickle his ivories". *Real* white stripes fans know this. Everyone else just makes up stuff to see what they can convince other fools to believe. | |
| Steppenwolf – Sookie Sookie Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I first heard this song when I was 17 back in 1983. My first instinct was to think it stupid because "sookie" wasn't a word I had ever heard before. I'm 43 now and I still haven't heard that word used anywhere but in this song. I have *always* thought the lyrics must actually be "suck me, suck me, suck me, suck me, suck me, suck me, Sue" and the spelling of the title was changed to the nonsensical "sookie" in order for the band to conveniently avoid any potential censorship-related entanglements. Then again, the word "sookie" does appear to be a legitimate slang term for somebody in the world. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sookie |
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| Rush – Freewill Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I completely agree with "johnpauljones86" in his "09-17-2004 07:31:57 PM" post that Freewill equates to atheism in this song. I always giggle at those who ponder the questions of "A. Free will" and "B. Predestination". More often than not they miss the multiple choice nature of the solution which is "C. Both A and B". Consider the parent who says, "You can wear your red shirt or your blue shirt. Which do you want to wear?" By way of predestination going shirtless is not an option. By way of free will, the child is able to wear either shirt s/he chooses. Will a child wear a shirt? Yes. Which shirt will the child choose? By way of her/his own free will, the parent has deliberately chosen not to intervene because s/he wants the child to learn how to think on her/his own. Apply to God and man. |
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