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| Nine Inch Nails – Closer Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I think this song can be interpreted so many ways. I more "feel" the song (I know that sounds dumb). I visualize the lyrics. It's almost like (to me) I always visualized a pseudo-stalker. Someone who really wanted to dominate and love this woman all at once. But he just didn't have the balls to approach her.
But regardless, this song has a very good beat and immediatly makes me think about having sex. |
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| Soundgarden – Black Hole Sun Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I was like 19 or 20 when this song came out. I was just coming out of the hair band daze (and I'm NOT ashamed to admit it - lol). I had a boyfriend that was convinced this song was about sex (call my name through the cream and I hear you scream agaoin). But I'm not totally convinced it's about sex. It sounds a bit self loathsome. Maybe it's about both? |
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| Alice in Chains – Down In A Hole Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I figured this was "abstractly" referring to his heroin addiction. I think it is more a "collection" of all of what is wrong with his life that may have lead to his heroin use, or the effect of his heroin use, or both. |
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| Alabama – 40 Hour Week (For a Livin') Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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There is a video on youtube that a guy from Ford Motor company in St. Louis did, using this song as the background music. I highly suggest checking it out. Also, there was division in the armed forces from Iraq that did a slideshow to this song. It will make you cry. Regardless, this song always makes me cry, proud tears because I am an american. |
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| Alabama – Song Of The South Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This song so reminds me of being a kid in the 80's with good ole 80's country music. My family loves Alabama. This song was so catchy and we used to sing it all the time. Course, at the time I didn't understand the meaning of it. Now I do. Whenever I get a chance I look this one up on youtube and watch the video. |
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| The Beach Boys – Sloop John B Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I love how this song tells a story, and I just love the harmonies. Definately quite a change from some of their other music. No beach party in this song! |
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| The Who – My Generation Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I always thought the stutter was just him being silly, or just singing a different way. Anywhoo, I know how my baby boomer parent's interpreted the song..."hope I die before I get old". Well, now they're old, and so am I!
Talkin bout my generation. |
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| The Who – Squeeze Box Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I just always thought it was about a woman bugging her family by playing the accordian all day and all night. Sometimes a white lion in a tree is just a white lion in a tree (meaning sometimes there's no symboloism). Just thought it was meant to be a catchy fun song. I do it at karoake all the time. |
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| The Who – Won't Get Fooled Again Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This song always just makes me envision youth trying to make a difference, whether it's a war revolution, or a sociatal revolution. Plus, who doesn't love the last scream on this song? Just love it! |
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| The Who – Who Are You? Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I always thought this song was about partying, and then waking up and doing that "drunk guy phone call" to a gal. I got that from the line "my heart is like a broken cup".
My favorite part of the song is "I woke up in a so-ho doorway". Just love the way he says it. |
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| Led Zeppelin – Hey Hey What Can I Do Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I always thought it was about a guy who falls in love with a girl that's a little screwed up, and tries to get her back on track (Sunday morning when we go down to church), and then gives up.
My favorite part of this song is the lyric "lookin for my street corner girl". Just love the beat. |
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| Led Zeppelin – Going to California Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Not sure if this is true, but I've heard that the "flowers in her hair" was referring to Joan Baez. I so love this song. I have a very close family member in CA, who happens to LOVE Led Zeppelin, and this song always reminds me of him. I love the "made up my mind to make a new start, goin to CA with an aching in my heart". I almost did that once. |
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| Gordon Lightfoot – If You Could Read My Mind Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I grew up listening to this song. It makes me tear up for several reasons. One is because I like to reminesce about my yoot. The other is I think the song is so sad. He's talking about basically how he once loved this person, and they just aren't meant to be. The part about "feelings that you lack" speaks volumes to me about how he doesn't love her anymore and is thinking a lot about it.
Aside from the music, I just think Gordon Lightfoot's songs are so poetic, and beautiful. |
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| Dusty Springfield – Son Of A Preacher Man Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Well, I think it's a simple song about falling in love with the preacher's son...and how the "pure of heart" can even be a little "devilish" (stealin kisses from me on the sly), and they fall in love.
Aside from that, I love the rhythm of this song and her voice. I do it for Karoake all the time. |
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| The Lovin' Spoonful – Do You Believe In Magic? Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I love this song! It's about the magic of music and dancing - which we can never have enough of. These are my favorite lines:
Believe in the magic of rock-n-roll
Believe in the magic that can set you free
Do you believe in magic
Don't bother to choose it
But it's like trying to tell a stranger bout Rock n Roll |
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| Smokey Robinson – I Second That Emotion Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This is such a fun song to me. My dad loved Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. I even named a cat after Smokey Robinson when I was like five years old - lol. This song always makes me just want to get up and dance around like a silly girl. :-) |
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| Grease – Grease Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Gosh I'm not sure what my favorite song is from the movie. My dad's is Hopelessly Devoted to You. This movie brings back so many good memories. My favorite is going to the drive in. I don't know how many times we saw it at the drive in. I remember my parents dressed me in my jammies, made me a little "bed" in the backseat of their Chevelle (or Mailbu, or Chevette...I was only five so I can't quite remember - but it had red interior) and we went to the drive-in to see the movie. Oh I miss those days! |
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| Olivia Newton-John – Xanadu Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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My Favorite Movie EVER! Oh my this movie is one of my best memories. My dad (whom I tease is "slightly gay") loves this movie and we watched it all the time. So much so that even my morbid brother knows the songs and can quote the movies. We love every song from the movie and always sing them. It never fails that when I see him, this movie is put in the ole DVD and enjoyed by all (yes, even my bro). |
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| Danzig – Dirty Black Summer Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Well...I am totally not a Danzig fan. But my brother is the BIGGEST FAN EVER! In fact, he got the opportunity to design the concert posters for the Kansas City show on halloween this year. So, everytime I hear a Danzig song, makes me miss my brother - lol. I'm not sure the name, but the one song "I got somethin to say, I killed your baby today" is one of his faves. We always go around singing it. LOL |
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| Kenny Loggins – Footloose Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I was but a wee youngin when this movie came out. I remember I was like fourth grade or something. Anywhoo, for my birthday I got a "ghetto blaster" (remember those? - LOL) and my mom came into the house, holding it, and BLARING the Footloose soundtrack! ROFLOL! I loved the movie (though I didn't understand it) and knew every song. Today, when this song comes on the radio I totally CRANK IT UP! This is the perfect song for nice warm days where you can roll the windows up, crank up the music, and dance in your car. Sometimes when I am feeling down, I look up Footloose on youtube and watch the end dance scene over and over! My friends think I'm crazy, but I don't care. I gotta CUT LOOSE...FOOT LOOSE! |
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| The Foundations – Build Me Up Buttercup Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I have a great memory from this song.
Let me give a bit of background. I was a teenager during the height of the hairbands (how does fit you might ask?) Well, my little brother and little sister grew up listening to Poison. So, they usually accompany me to their concerts.
Anywhoo, one time we were leaving the concert and stuck in traffic. This song came on the radio, my bro (who is totally into some really morbid music) cranked it up and was singing at the top of his lungs "WHY DO YOU BUILD ME UP"...and here come my sister and me "build me up" (backup singers - lol). We cranked the song and sang it as loud as we could! One of my fondest memories of me, my bro, and sis. |
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| Elvis Costello – Veronica Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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My real name is Veronica. This song came out when I was a teenager, so you can imagine (in addition to hearing "how's Archie and the Gang") EVERYONE sang it to me! But I was just so happy that a song actually had my unique name! Parts of this song remind me of me. I'm not a grandma and I don't have alzheimer's (which unfortunately runs in my family), but there are some lines that are so me. "Devilish look in her eye", totally me. "They call her a name they never get right"...I can't tell you how many times someone can't pronounce my name, or called me Victoria, Vivian, Valerie, etc. In fact, my screen name, "brunicas" is actually a nickname I earned when I was a baby because someone misheard my name and thought my parents had named me brunicas! LOL. The line "you can call me anything you like, but my name is Veronica" is another line that reminds me of me. I have about 44 (at last count) nicknames. Everyone loves to make up some sort of nickname out of my real name. "She used to have a carefree mind of her own"...well, I have a pretty carefree mind (odd for a Taurus). |
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| Rod Stewart – Maggie May Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Oh where should I begin with this song? Can we say...COUGAR! LOL
Well, this is what the song means to me. It means my mom. No No...she's not a cougar. Her name is Maggie and this song came out when I was but a wee youngin. Since I was so little, I thought that the song was written for her (I didn't understand the meaning - just recognized the name Maggie). Plus it was named "Maggie MAY" and she was born in May...so to a kid...well, you get it - LOL! I had this song played at my wedding reception and dedicated to her. EVERYONE got up and danced and she had so much fun! Actually, I miss her so much (she doesn't live near me) that every time I hear this song I tear up. :-) |
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| Bee Gees – To Love Somebody Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I had no idea Janis Joplin did a version! I'll have to check it out. The bee gee's is definatley my favorite version (I am not a Michael Bolton fan and never will be). This song always made me think of a man pining for a woman that either he can't have or she doesn't notice him. Always made me kind of wish that a guy I really liked was really pining for me, and I didn't know it and somewhow it would turn out that I'd find out and we'd live happily ever after. LOL! |
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| Brewer and Shipley – One Toke Over The Line Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Love this song! I don't think it needs too much interpretation. Just sounds like a free swinging song about going home, and getting nice and stoned waiting...enjoying life without any cares. :-) |
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| Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Southern Cross Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Well, first the song is nostalgiac because it makes me think of my mom since she listened to it. I always thought it was about a tough painful relationship, that they tried and tried again (we never failed to fail...it was the easiest thing to do). That's how I feel about my ending marraige. It's easier to fail than to make it work. I thought Southern Cross was an attempt to return to some sort of faith with it's roots in the south. |
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| The Cyrkle – Red Rubber Ball Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I can't believe no one has commented! This song was written by one of the greatest song writers of our time...Paul Simon. I love this song! I think it's hilarious! Not because of the lyrics, but it's such a sad/angry subject of a relationship breakup, but it's set to such happy peppy music. It's so catchy that you get it stuck in your head and sing it all day! |
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| Country Joe and the Fish – Feel Like I'm Fixing To Die Rag (Next Stop Vietnam) Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Another baby boomer song that my parents always sing. They talk about the draft lottery and the friends they knew who got drafted. The story is so descriptive for the feelings of the time. "Whoopee we're all gonna die" I think illustrates kids who don't know what they're getting into. "Put down your books and pick up a gun" shows our gov't seemed to care more about winning a hopeless police action than educating our young men. "Be the first one on your block to have your boy come home in a box" seems to me like WWII era men are priding themselves on their "military patriotic boys" and trying to out do their neighbors, until they're songs are shipped home. I love that line. Totally in your face for the time. My daddy was handicapped so he couldn't even volunteer for military service. He was almost killed in a motorcycle accident as a teenager. He always says he doesn't know if that was a blessing or not. It kept him out of the draft, but he has to live w/being handicapped the rest of his life. |
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| Dion – Abraham, Martin and John Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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My parents were baby boomers so they remember the "martin, john, and bobby". Of course they don't remember abraham (lol). I think the meaning is pretty clear - rememberance of people who made history and were assignated. The last part of Bobby alking up over the hill, with Abraham Martin and John, always makes me tear up. I just imagine the three of them waiting, and then Bobby Kennedy comes to join them, and they all turn with our backs to us walk into the light in the distance. There's some really good slideshows to this song on youtube. It's a time period us gen x kids will never know. But we can sure learn from our parents. |
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| Tesla – Love Song Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This song always makes me cry. Not because of the lyrics, but because it reminds me so much of my teenage years. My favorite lyric is (waiting for you is this love made just for two). I always thought the meaning was a friend of someone's has a bad breakup and is doubting ever finding someone. The friend is telling her "you'll find it...just be patient". It will come when you least expect it. I also thought that the lyric "love is going to find a way back to you" could have a bit of a double meaning. It may be man woman love, o any love that is going to go back to where it belongs. When I got married to my first husband, I made sure this was played during the reception. My mom came up to me and we were slow dancing to it (yes, we do mother/daughter dancing in the mid-west) and she was singing at the top of her lungs. I said "Mom! How do you know the lyrics of this song?" She said "because I only had to listen to it OVER AND OVER AND OVER again when you were a teenager!" I may have to go listen to it now. :-) |
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| Poison – Talk Dirty to Me Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I was a child of the 80's (big hair, dark makeup, mullets, men spending more time on their hair than women...) and I miss it sometimes. Poison is my all time favorite hair band EVER! People think it is hilarious to go to a concert with me because I get so excited and dance around. This song is about sex (duh!) but goes a little bit more of a story. I think it's about that fun time of being a teenager, and sneaking around to be w/your boyfriend and girlfriend. You don't have your own car yet (in the old man's ford) and you don't have a good place to go have sex (behind the bushes, down the basement -lock the cellar door). I know me and my high school sweet heart were always "in the basement" with the cellar door locked! Gosh I miss those days sometimes! It's funny, because my mom had to listen to me playing my tape cassettes (hmmm...what's a tape cassette) over and over (which she hated at the time) she knows all the songs and I had ot make her a copy of my greatest hits CD! |
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| Johnny Cash – The Highwayman Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I love all the singers in this song. My favorite though is Waylon Jennings. He has such a deep rich voice that just makes me tingle. I love listening to him sing because it reminds me a lot of my grandparents. I always thought the meaning of this song is that no matter what, whether you be a criminal or a worker, when you die a tragic death, someone will step in to take your place and they will die and the cycle just keeps going. |
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| Sheryl Crow – Ode To Billy Joel Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I first heard this song on an oldies station and loved it! The funny thing was, I always thought it was a black woman singing it. She has a deeper "soul" voice. And the line "cuttin cotton" made me think of poor black people and the food they talk about is very southern (which I guess doesn't make a difference). Considering the time period, I thought Billy Joe was a black man who committed suicide because he couldn't take being black in a white southern society anymore...or...he was murdered and it was covered up. The "throwin something off the bridge" I thought was just the two of them playing, and maybe throwing rocks or something into the water. I read an interview with the artist and she said she never decided on why he committed suicide when she wrote the song. Course, I also though "Son of a Preacher Man" was also sung by a black woman. |
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| Janis Joplin – Me and Bobby McGee Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I fell in love with this song when I was going through my "retro hippie" years (I'm of the gen x generation). I used to sing it all the time at karoake. The only bad thing about that was, the dj's always screwed up and played the Kris K version. Anywhoo, I found the Kris K version, and I really like that verion too. So what I do is play that one first and then Janis's when I listen to the song. I love to download multiple versions of songs to hear how different artists put their own spin on it. I read an interview with Kris K and he said the song was loosley based on Janis, but not completely. If you ever get a chance, look this song up on youtube. There is a really great slide show set to this song. My favorite part of the song is the piano. Always wanted to learn how to play it.
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