| The English Beat – Whine and Grine/Stand Down Margaret Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Margaret is definitely referring to Margaret Thatcher. Great song! |
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| Elvis Costello – Watching the Detectives Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I got the impression that this was kind of a composite of a contemporary film and sexual frustration... there seems to be some allusions to the movie "Taxi Driver" by Scorsese. But the chorus doesn't connect so well... Note this is just a semi-wild theory. First, we've got "Nice girls not one with a defect, / cellophane shrink-wrapped, so correct"... reminds me of Bickle's obsession with going to adult film houses (perfect porn stars). "Red dogs under illegal legs / She looks so good that he gets down and begs" reminds me of Bickle's scene with Iris, where he tries to convince her to quit prostitution (she's underage). "You think you're alone until you realize you're in it / Now fear is here to stay, Love is here for a visit": Bickle's isolation, his fears surrounding the seediness of NYC, "Visit" = paying Iris for her time... or, his realization that there is some good in the world (Betsy and Iris) "They call it instant justice when it's past the legal limit / Someone's scratching at the window. I wonder who is it?" Bickle's massacre at the end makes him hailed as a hero... "Scratching at the window" reminds me of the perspective of the people on the other side of the door to the brothel, right before he's about to storm in. "The detectives come to check if you belong to the parents / who are ready to hear the worst about their daughter's disappearance" Iris is a runaway... her parents had filed her as a missing person... Detectives clearly bring her to her parents. "Though it nearly took a miracle to get you to stay, it only took my little fingers to blow you away" Doesn't Bickle lose some fingers or get shot in the arm during his spree? Plus... Little fingers... Trigger... But "blow away" as in send you away from danger. Though I agree with the whole finger-blasting sexual innuendo. |
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| Mischief Brew – Departure Arrival Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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It's both a song about leaving home, but it reminds me of leaving love behind... to me at least. "Something below me starts cranking to life The platform moves backwards until its out of sight Tracks start to split Got another ten hours till my next cigarette" "Almost at the end I close my eyes and we fall over the edge" "If I ever fall aleep I remember my dream Where everybody's there and noody leaves Where everybody's there and noody leaves" |
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| The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – Chocolate Pudding Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| It's legit just about eating chocolate pudding... Apparently Vegas and a couple other Tones were eating some chocolate pudding when this ridiculous song came to his and Nate Albert's collective head. | |
| The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – They Came To Boston Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Not just that though johnc... just how there are the people that actually live in Boston, and then the outsiders (college kids, tourists, whatever)... the natives don't like the outsiders, since the outsiders come in, don't get a real understanding of the city, then just move on with their lives, but the natives just have to deal with it... doesn't mean they're not pissed though. I think if there was a lost verse it'd mention something about the Boston commuters tying up I-93 and I-95. |
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| The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – Allow Them Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think it's just about politicians, media moguls, and businessmen... they way they deceive and cling to power, but in the end all the work they do will just end up destroying them all... that we should just let them do their thing and pick up the pieces afterwards... Either that or it's talking about the music industry and the jet-setters in it, how they're trying to "pitch" things to the kids, market and package bands... draw up these deals and eat off the backs of the musicians... and if you just let them do their thing they're just end up destroying each other anyways. |
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| The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – A Jackknife to a Swan Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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jkdamacy definitely is on the right track. Evelyn was doused in gasoline. Incited race-based violence. one example from the article: "large groups of idle black teenagers were soon wandering the area [Andrews Square], and in quick succession they claimed three white victims" First verse: "a few miles off the avenue" - Evelyn Wagler was doused in gasoline and lit up in a trash-filled backyard, not too far from where the fictional Walter worked. "he watched his hometown fade" - all the comfortable, nostalgic good feelings about Boston fading as the community errupts in racial violence. Second Verse: The whole thing is pretty straight-forward. Walter is a white man that is coming home on the subway late at night, sees these black kids, they start to chase him. Cause of the race issues from Evelyn's killing he thinks they're after him (and they very might be) Third verse: "Did they kill Evelyn?" - Walter's lumping all the 'blacks' together... reflection of the racism and tension in Boston at the time. He thinks they're going to kill him, so he decides to just kill himself by throwing himself in front of the train. Worried that worse things might happen to him. It's all about how someone can get so afraid from the news that they do crazy shit to "protect" themselves... even so far as to kill themselves. Plus focuses on race issues in Boston going on in the 70s. |
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