| Rainmakers – Skin Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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wow , deep thoughts. would be be better people is not for the bad stuff around us? In the static, the snow, and the radio wave The flickering image, the pandering thought. refers to TV, I think, and how it aims for the lowest common denominator. |
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| Rainmakers – Downstream Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think the Chuck Berry line is a lightning rod with a white guitar may refer to this situation described in wikipedia "Touring as Chuck Berry, the legend (1970s) In the 1970s Berry toured on the basis of his earlier successes. He was on the road for many years, carrying only his Gibson guitar, confident that he could hire a band that already knew his music no matter where he went. Allmusic has said that in this period his "live performances became increasingly erratic, [...] working with terrible backup bands and turning in sloppy, out-of-tune performances" which "tarnished his reputation with younger fans and oldtimers" alike. [2] Among the many bandleaders performing this backup role were Bruce Springsteen and Steve Miller when each was just starting his career. Springsteen related in the video Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll that Berry did not even give the band a set list and just expected the musicians to follow his lead after each guitar intro. Berry neither spoke to nor thanked the band after the show. Nevertheless, Springsteen backed Berry again when he appeared at the concert for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995." |
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| Rainmakers – Downstream Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I pretty much agree with you on the Harry Truman comment. Of course he was sorry he did it. I wouldn't call it genocide, but if he had not done it the Japanese would NEVER have surrendered, if they knew we only had 2 bombs , they would have kept fighting. Harry was saying he would take the heat , but a stiff drink dulls the bad feelings. | |
| Rainmakers – Rockin' at teh T-Dance Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| All 3 verses refer to incidents caused by failures in man made objects , probably due to cost cutting and or little forethought to how they could fail. | |
| Rainmakers – Rockin' at teh T-Dance Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The t dance refers to a "tea dance" which was being held at the Hyatt in KC ., July 17 1981, due to a change made in the design to save money , a skywalk collapsed killing 114 people. the line you cant see the sins might actually be 'can't see the sense or cents. |
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| Rainmakers – Rockin' at teh T-Dance Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think line 13 should be "cause her baby didn't phone" refering to the portion of the flight when Apollos 13 was out of comunication when it was on the far side of the moon. | |
| Rainmakers – Rockin' at teh T-Dance Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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3rd line should be Grisson , White and Chaffee, refers to the Astronauts who died in Apollo 1. a mission that was never flown, due to a fire in the capsule that killed all three men. |
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