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| Warren Zevon – Play It All Night Long Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I think it's Zevon contrasting the realities of much of the rural South (and rural life in general really) with the mixed messages of pride that seem to come out of it. "There aint much to country living" and yet everyone from Lynyrd Skynyrd to Thoreau have somehow tried to suggest that it's some proud institution. Rural poverty sucks, but conversely when people have very little they tend to be very protective of what they've got. |
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| Tom Waits – I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love with You Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think the important bit is the subtext. In the end he's not in love with the woman from the bar because he's met her, or on the basis of a few exchanged glances in a bar, but because she didn't make him get away from his alcoholism or the dream world of "what would happen if?" It's not a love song, it's a song about making excuses to not fall in love and wallow in self-pity. |
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