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| Flashy Python – Obscene Queen Bee Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I sense guilt, possibly over what he sees success has turned him into. "Behind the fence I have no sense of / what the neighbors think of self-control," et al. |
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| Flashy Python – Obscene Queen Bee Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I sense guilt, possibly over what he sees success has turned him into. "Behind the fence I have no sense of / what the neighbors think of self-control," et al. |
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| Townes Van Zandt – Mr. Mudd and Mr. Gold Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Gold and Mudd are playing five-card stud Poker. Within this game, the cards are somewhat personified so that the Clubs and the Diamonds are at war with each other. Gold wins most of the hands with Club flushes and such, but Mudd's luck turns around when he goes all in for the last deal. Gold gets four kings, but the Ace of Clubs betrays him (remember that Gold had been winning with Club flushes and the King of Clubs' help, somehow) by falling into Mudd's hand and giving him all four aces, allowing Mudd to win everything back (apparently with some help from the Queen of Diamonds).
I've never been much for Poker, so I might be getting some of the particulars of their hands wrong, but it basically makes sense from the lyrics.
I guess you can take it deeper with the last lines if you want, but I just like to leave it as an incredibly well-told story of two men playing Poker. |
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| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Some Loud Thunder Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think it's pretty obviously self-deprecating, and about himself in relation to his new album. Especially the part about making holes in a quarry. A quarry is already a big hole. So he's down underground where he can't be seen, doing what's already been done. It's pointless. He's got nothing new to contribute, nothing to say, and no one cares to see his work anyway. He never has had anything original or worthwhile to say, he says, like one of those punk kids breaking bottles in the park in the name of anarchy or some other half-baked, trendy new philosophy. So when should he finally stop this meaningless thunder and "gracefully retreat?"
That's what I got out of it, anyway. |
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| Jonathan Richman – Let Her Go Into The Darkness Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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There's about two more minutes worth of lyrics on the album version of this song. It makes a lot more sense with the extra verses. Try searching out a live version on YouTube if you can't find the album. |
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