| Peter Gabriel – Games Without Frontiers Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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As others have said, I think Peter Gabriel is comparing politicians/statesmen with children who play war games, and how infantile disputes can appear. Children's war games can be started over the fact that 'Andre has a red flag, Chiang Ching's is blue, They all have hills to fly them on except for Lin Tai Yu' and politicians and adults in general can have disputes over similar things. If only these games were as harmless as children 'Dressing up in costumes, playing silly games, Hiding out in tree-tops shouting out rude names' or adults who play silly games on 'It's A Knockout/Jeux sans frontieres' where contestants from different countries (in the European version at the time) would compete and have a harmless 'war without tears'. |
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| The Police – Synchronicity II Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Continuing my explanation above, the monster that is acid rain/environmental pollution in general, rises from the lake to affect people in other places who are 'many miles away' from the source of the pollution itself. Britain at the time was being accused of partly causing acid rain in Scandinavian lakes from coal-burning power stations, the pollution being carried across the North Sea by prevailing winds. So the synchronicity relates to connected events that have no apparent connection but actually are connected. Maybe Sting says Scottish lake to create the image of the environmental monster being like a man-made Loch Ness Monster. |
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| The Police – Synchronicity II Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I agree with the comment above, and think the monster is really an environmental disaster, the video was like 'Mad Max' where it's a bleak desolate environment. Acid Rain was an environmental story at the time, lakes in various Scandinaviancountries were dying out due to Acid Rain from industrial pollution (the factory belches filth into the air), so rather than being about the LNM it could be about a monster created by industrial pollution from factory and the commuter lifestyle (the rush hour hell) of the main character. |
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| Simple Minds – New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The lyrics don't mean anything specifically, but are like another instrument. I read a Bono quote about Simple Minds being trance music pioneers. This is early trance music before it was called that, which has an hypnotic effect, electronic music with a melodic bassline that later would be associated with drug use, but not at his time, I don't think. Without the lyrics it would be a bit like 'Theme for Great Cities' on the previous 'Sons and Fascination' double album. | |
| Supertramp – If Everyone Was Listening Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| It seems relevant today with the concerns about the environment especially man-made climate change, 'if everyone was listening, there'd be a chance that we could save the show'. | |
| Supertramp – Fool's Overture Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The first part of it is about WW2, the famous Winston Churchill speech in 1940 before the Battle of Britain, Big Ben, sirens etc. But it goes off on a tangent, maybe it's about the futility of war in general. | |
| John Martyn – Small Hours Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Recorded at 3 o'clock in the morning at a lake. So atmospheric, the song title says it all, and the lyrics 'And a new day's dawn, Going to carry on'. Some geese can be heard in the background. |
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| John Lennon – Imagine Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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He was saying some simple things. Without possessions you can't be jealous of other people's possessions and each person could have enough to survive. It's just a simple song about breaking down the barriers that separate humans whether its borders, material possessions, or religion. He knows he'll get called a dreamer or worse for even saying those things. No doubt some people hated him singing 'Imagine there's no countries, It isn't hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for' part during the Vietnam War. |
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| Supertramp – Words Unspoken Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| From the neglected first album, nice mellow hippy songs, this song and 'Aubade' and 'Surely' | |
| Nick Drake – Northern Sky Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| 'straighten my new mind's eye', who knows what that means, I like his vague lyrics, it leaves it open to interpretation. About the Blake reference, the compilation album in the 80s was 'Heaven In A Wild Flower'. This song now reminds me of the part in 'A Skin Too Few' when the camera pans over the treetops. | |
| Paul McCartney – Coming Up Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I'm sure Paul once said this song inspired John Lennon to start writing songs again, so he must have thought it was alright | |
| Supertramp – Child of Vision Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It's partly about talking about America and partly about his strained relationship with Rick Davies. On wikipedia there's a quote "As I remember, that song was written with two things in mind. I think it was a little bit, maybe my equivalent of "Gone Hollywood". Maybe looking at America and seeing how Americans are living and possibly, also a song to Rick a little bit too, because we did live totally different lives. And life styles, possibly. So maybe it was a little bit of, a little bit of a song to him. In retrospect it was a little judgmental of me, but I think it was probably…we weren't getting on with this album. It was becoming more and more difficult to work together and we were really wanting different things out of life. And I think this was my song to him, as "Casual Conversations" was, I really believe that was a song that he wrote to me. We weren't communicating very well through this album and it tells a lot, that song". --Roger Hodgson, In the Studio with Redbeard for The Making of Breakfast in America(first aired in June 1990). |
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| 10cc – Dreadlock Holiday Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Along with the above comment, Graham Gouldman said the chorus came from a conversation he had when on holiday in the Caribbean, he asked someone 'you must really like cricket' and the reply was 'no, I don't like it, I love it' | |
| Supertramp – Child of Vision Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Someone else on another site said it was about the two main songwriters not getting on. Casual Conversations was written by Rick Davies about this and this was Roger Hodgson's reply. Not sure if it's true but it sounds plausible. If so it's more literal than most Supertramp songs - Roger sings 'how can you live in this way' and Rick replies 'why do you think it's so strange?' and they both sing ' There must be more to this life, It's time we did something right'. | |
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