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| Jackson Browne – For A Dancer Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I first heard this powerful song in the mid eighties & I've come back to it regularly since then. It's rare that I can listen to it, or sing it, without crying. I played it to my girlfriend yesterday & was weeping by the end of the second verse. A morbid thought perhaps, but for a long time I've considered it top of a short list of songs I'd like performed at my funeral. That would of course involve identifying a friend who is able to sing it through without breaking down themselves . . . |
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| Disturbed – Down with the Sickness Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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The original meaning of a song isn't necessarily that which it invokes in the listener. That is what makes it art. Since I first heard it, this song has remained powerfully helpful in dealing with childhood issues & the anger which they sometimes evoke. |
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| Richard & Linda Thompson – Withered and Died Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This has to be one of the most miserable songs ever written from the depths of despair, although it is so beautiful in a maudlin way. I only sing it when I'm in a particularly bad way & it helps express the sorrow & anguish I'm feeling. |
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| Triniti – What You Do With What You've Got Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I want this song to be sung at my funeral. It has haunted me for much of my adult life. I keep coming back to singing it every so often & it's one of the rare songs I perform that I don't accompany on guitar. |
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| Crowded House – Four Seasons In One Day Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Yes, a beautiful song with layers of meaning, like others by Crowded House.
@ herbwarrior: Myself, I took 'Blood dries up, like rain . . .' as the wounds from bitter aguements within a relationship often healing quickly, after the sort of disagreement which can sometimes clear the air & diffuse the tension which has been building between you.
Generally for me, the weather metaphor in this song refers to the emotional storms & periods of sunshine within a turbulant but loving relationship. Maybe this is because I accompany it on guitar whilst my ex-girlfriend sings it & we have certainly shared extreme & rapid weather changes over the years. |
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| Christy Moore – Ride On Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I looked up this song on here as I'm currently working it out to perform (I play guitar & sing) & I wanted to see what others had made of the meaning. The song is particularly powerful for me because of a painful split up from my partner a year ago & singing it is part of the healing from that.
Beyond the meanings commented on above, for me it also relates a situation where the differences between the two parties have taken them on divergent paths, so that to 'go along' with the other isn't possible whilst following one's own path in the circumstances one finds oneself. Nevertheless, whilst it could be taken more cynically as tinged with bitterness & irony, personally I take the song as a powerful expression of admiration & goodwill towards the other.
However, there is pain too of course & a suggestion of cruelty suffered during the relationship, but now almost welcomed & invited: 'Run your claw along my gut one last time'. The final lines of the second verse - 'And look for a smile to light the night, through a teardrop in my eye.' - to me imply the urge to take comfort in the arms of a third party, through the sorrow & loneliness of the separation. |
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| Christy Moore – Ride On Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Hi MatthiasHeil, the line "Standing 16 1 or 2, with eyes wild & green" is a description of the horse.
Traditionally, horses are measured in 'hands' - a hand is approximately 10cm & the hieght is measured from the ground to the 'withers' or top of the shoulder. In fact, because the hand is an imperial rather than a metric measurement, it actually corresponds to 4 inches (1 inch being about 2.5cm) & the 16 1 or 2' means 16.1 or 16.2 hands, which actually isn't a decimal but is 16 hands plus 1 inch or 16 hands plus 2 inches. So this horse is by my calculation (16x4inches)+(1 or 2 inches) = 65 or 66 inches = 1.625m or 1.650m.
The 'eyes wild & green' is more obviously a description of the horses eyes. |
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