| Aerosmith – Seasons Of Wither Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I think this song is about a woman who is being used by the narrator. He knows it, and she doesn't. That "love for the devil" that brought her to him was her own attraction to whatever he stands for (rock star or nomad rebel). He sees the end of their tryst coming, and she doesn't. His departure will be what takes the "wind right out of (her) sails." | |
| ABBA – I Am The City Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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@[bigdave69:585] Naah. ABBA in its later years recorded lots of songs with serious lyrics. By serious, I mean that Ulvaeus mastered English enough to play with it. This particular song uses personification masterfully to describe the essence of any big city. And, like many, if not most, ABBA songs, there is a dark undercurrent to the lyrics. The city seduces, "my arms are open wide." But once inside those arms, "sometimes you lose a lot." The imagery of "turmoil," "clamor," "grabbing pieces of the fatted calf," "revelation," and people who feed the city "with their lives" all add up to make a pretty dark pronouncement about the power of the metropolis. Not "crap." Maybe not your cup of tea, but that doesn't make it crap. I find it quite literate and fascinating. |
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| Amy Grant – Lead Me On Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This song is worthy of comment. It's not every day that a pop/rock song uses holocaust imagery and presents a universal hopefulness at the same time. Had she not been pigeonholed as too Christian to be mainstream, this song would have been appreciated on pop radio and even FM rock. The chorus is undeniably catchy and once you get the context, those people "labelled with a golden star" headed for the gas chambers are the ones crying out for deliverance, it's very moving. | |
| Sheryl Crow – Ode To Billy Joel Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I don't believe this song is about infanticide. The family's dinner wouldn't have been so routine nor would the discussion of Billy Joe's suicide if the girl had been pregnant in front of her family. Whatever happened, it is obvious the family doesn't know that the girl and Billy Joe were intimate. When asked about it, all Bobbie Gentry said was that the song was about "man's inhumanity to man." Given the context of the times in which it was written and wildly popular, a student of mine once commented that Billy Joe symbolized the draft of young men into the Viet Nam War. Lots of young men, 55,000 of them, basically jumped off a bridge when they went to Viet Nam never to come home. I am not sure if it was that specific, but the heartache behind the lyrics was definitely aimed at the loss of Billy Joe, not the loss of an infant. The mystery of what the two threw off the bridge, I believe, is overshadowed by the sense of loss and the passage of time as presented in the last verse. There is no other clue in the song as to what might have been thrown. But there is in every verse a sense of shock and sorrow, loneliness and regret, waste and carelessness. |
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