| Tom Waits – Martha Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The futility of this song is heartwrenching! Throughout the song you're led to believe that their love was so strong, though you know from the start some flaw compromised it all ("and I was always so impulsive..."). Imagine being able to reminisce of such a powerful love, after half a lifetime. You've both forked out and formed your own worlds, yet your still so overwhelmed by that love to call the woman up! Yet, the final phrase is what brings me to tears. To me, it suggests that the singer held much faith in this girl. So much that he, unlike many men, was not ashamed to break down and tremble in her presence. Gorgeous. |
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| Meat Loaf – Martha Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Eight times out of ten I cry when I hear this song. I used it as my profile song on myspace, and all my friends left me comments saying "I love this song, it made me cry!" It is hard to choose a best song for someone like Waits, but this surely deserves an honorable mention. It can spark emotion in anybody. |
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| Meat Loaf – Seize the Night Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Yes, Pink. I love how songs revisit motifs. I particularly like this song. Steinman teamed up with Andrew Lloyd Weber for the musical 'Whistle Down the Wind' which wasn't too much of a success. Weber mentioned he once considered asking Steinman to write lyrics for Phantom of the Opera. Though Steinman didn't write lyrics for the show, I would say this is his answer to "Music of the Night" from Phantom. |
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| Meat Loaf – In the Land of the Pig, the Butcher Is King Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song was actually written for the aborted Batman musical (as in the Caped Crusader, not a play on words referring to a Bat Out of Hell musical, which Steinman is currently at work on). The demo is available on Jim Steinman's website. taken from the Batman Musical tribute site: JIM STEINMAN: "... "PIG" is written to be the song of the corrupt bloodsuckers who run GOTHAM CITY, and stare down from their chrome towers that disembowel the sky, pollutants raining down like a thick clotted rain of decay. Its meant to be comically grotesquely frightening." So basically your assumptions of corrupt priests and other officials are along the right lines. The 'Butchers' are the high-profiled criminals and killers of Gotham, and the 'Pigs' are the average law-abiding citizens. |
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| Meat Loaf – Good Girls Go to Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song has always been one of my favorites of all time, not just Meat Loaf alone. ...I knew I chose it with just cause. |
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| Meat Loaf – Hot Patootie (Bless My Soul) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song was written by Rocky Horror creator, Richard O'Brien. Rocky Horror was written as O'Briens tribute to (glam) rock 'n roll and science fiction b-movies. This song is simple and one of the easiest to enjoy in Rocky Horror! Meat Loaf os one of the greatest to play Eddie! In the original Roxy and Broadway versions, he played duel roles as Eddie and Dr. Scott. You can hear him as Scotty on the Roxy recording. |
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| Meat Loaf – Couldn't Have Said It Better Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Like many of Meat's songs, it sounds like a not-so-subtle reference for some extremely passionate love making. When there's one thing two lovers want (sex), the tension in the air can be so thick that mere words can totally ruin the moment. "Tonight the conversation takes the fall" can back this up, as well as "I'll get the lights, you get that smile". I love Meat Loaf duets. His ladies always have such charged voices! |
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| Meat Loaf – For Crying Out Loud Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I've always interpreted it as almost the opposite. I've always imagined the song as two lovers who are being forced to separate by forces out of their control, possibly even the singer's lover nearing death. The song is actually the singer's final goodbye to his lover. Of course it can be interpreted a number of ways, but the lyrics: "Oh Babe, don't go" And don't you hear me screaming: "How was I to know?" always suggested that this couple was in the middle of some turmoil and that their future was uncertain. Such a gorgeous song, it makes me laugh ("and can't you see my faded levi's burstin' apart?) and cry. |
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| Meat Loaf – Bad For Good Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The provided lyrics are from Jim Steinman's own solo album, "Bad for Good". Meat Loaf's version on Bat III omits the "God speed!" phrases. The song is pretty straightforward, an anti-conformist anthem, a common theme among Steinman's music. Whenever I hear or think of this song, it reminds me of a lyric from "Everything Louder Than Everything Else" "Wasted youth is better by far Than a wise and productive old age" |
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