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| Yes – Onward Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I never realized it, but it’s a romantic song about spending the ‘best night of my life’ with your loved one. |
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| Yes – Machine Messiah Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I get the impression this song is about acheiving freedom from the slavery and drudgery of industrial factory work. |
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| Yes – Wonderous Stories Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This song is poetry which for describes early morning dreams that occur as one is waking up. The dreamer encounters a wondrous story-teller in his dreams. The dreamer must wake up and leave the story teller behind, but as he is awakening he bids the story teller to return in future dreams. |
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| Yes – We Have Heaven Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I think this song is saying to rejoice and tell all creatures of the earth that mankind has travelled into space (i.e. heaven) and has been to the moon. |
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| Yes – Yours Is No Disgrace Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This song is a message of hope for the entrenched warrior (of any country) who may be experiencing feelings of guilt due to the horrors of war. It is saying that the disgrace of war is not the personal burden of the individual soldier. On the contrary, war is a disgrace carried by all humanity. |
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| Rush – Roll The Bones Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I sing this song in my Rush cover band. While I personally don't hate the rap, when that part comes up I say "Jack, relax. This band doesn't rap". :-) |
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| Rush – Red Tide Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Seems to be primarily about environmental destruction, but with a hint of sexual plague in the first verse. Note that the red tide gets worse in each verse, first 'kissing the shore', then 'washing ashore' and finally 'covers the shore'.
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| Rush – Subdivisions Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I think the main point is the peace, serentity, and conformity of suburbia cannot satisfy the dreams of YOUTH, but it is the memory of that peaceful setting that brings people back after they have sown their wild oats and/or failed to realize their dreams. |
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| Rush – New World Man Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I understand this song to describe a new generation of U.S. political leadership, coming into power and taking over the reigns (of a nuclear arsenal, for example) from the previous generation. The new generation must reluctantly learn to continue the policies of the past generation, in order to deal with the threat to it's power from up-and-coming contender nations.
BTW, someone please explain "He's a radio receiver, tuned to factories and farms". I do not understand that analogy.
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| Aerosmith – Same Old Song and Dance Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Someone from the rough part of town has been imprisoned (a cooler = jail cell) and falsely accused of murder (coincidental murder), based on some sketchy evidence (coke & gun doesn’t mean murder). He doesn’t have the means to hire a lawyer to properly defend him. His life is on the line before an impatient and arrogant judge. And if you think this is a rare situation, no man, it happens all the time. It’s the same old story. |
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| Neil Young – Down To The Wire Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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"the voice is now the choir." = the voice in his head saying she is bad news is now screaming at him like a loud choir. |
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| Neil Young – I Am A Child Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Ok, I have an 8-year-old son and just read the lyrics for first time.
"I'd like to know what you learned" = child wondering in amazement of father's knowledge.
"What is the color, when black is burned?" = the kind of question an innocent child asks.
"It's lots of fun to have you there" My favourite line. The idea that my child has fun when I'm around. |
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