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Leonard Cohen – Chelsea Hotel #2 Lyrics 16 years ago
The song is only little bit about a moment between two conventionally unattractive people, communing as both homely and immensely talented. Sure, the affair was super short, but they "had the music" a lot better than most anyone else alive at the time. More importantly Janis "got away" because she died. The song is just as much about all the musicians who didn't surviving the lifestyle, the drugs, the decade...

"we were running for the money and the flesh
And that was called love for the workers in song
probably still is for those of them left"

"clenched fist" evocative of shaking it in anger- oppressed by beautiful people.
"fixed yourself" probably a pun.
"each fallen robin" dead singers.

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Built to Spill – You Were Right Lyrics 16 years ago
I'm pretty sure that "everything's gonna be alright" is a reference to the Velvet Underground. Lou Reed used the word "alright" in several songs.

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