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| Fairport Convention – Genesis Hall Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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futatorius is right, the song begins, My father he rides with your sheriffs. This I think is a reference to Richard Thompson's own father who was a policeman. The next lines of that first verse seem to be a defence of his father; maybe it wasn't easy being the son of a copper in the heady days of the late 60s! But the lines about drinking up whisky and wine until you're red with hate are a spot-on analysis of the type of blind bigotry towards blacks, asians, muslim, catholic, protestant, asylum-seekers etc etc voiced in pubs up and down the country when in like company once the bevvy gets a hold. |
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| Crass – Poison In A Pretty Pill Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This is a brilliant song. Shame so few people heard Crass as they were banned from half the radio stations and half the venues in the country. This song has resonance and meaning in every single line and ends with 4 lines that sum up both the pity of and reasons for war so succintly and powerfully. A bit like a feminist Wilfred Owen, really. |
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| Bob Dylan – It's All Over Now, Baby Blue Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I've heard that Dylan once claimed this song refers to the end of the british empire. It might, or it might refer to a million and one other things, or several of them at the same time. dylan is notoriously unreliable when he sheds light on his own songs. I don't think it really matters whther it's about the end of an empire, or a relationship, or a generation, or a rebellion, or all these things, or none of these things; for me it's just a haunting song about loss, which can mean different things to the listener at different stages of his/her life |
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| Crass – Shaved Women Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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After the war, women in France who had slept with the nazis were humiliated in public by having their hair shaved. I think crass are implying that women who shave their legs, armpits, are collaborators with the enemy in the same way as the collaborators in vichy france. a rather extreme analogy, if that's the case. Trains are the trains to the death camps, the fate that symbolically awaits us if women continue to compromise their identity by conforming to whatever standards of femininity that (male)society demands of them. |
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