| Bruce Springsteen – Outlaw Pete Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Springsteen explained to the Observer Music Monthly January 2009 about this fable concerning a character who can't escape his past: "The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad. It will come and it will devour you, it will remove you from the present. It will steal your future and this happens every day. We've lived through a nightmare like that in the past eight years here. We had a historically blind administration who didn't take consideration of the past; thousands and thousands of people died, lives were ruined and terrible, terrible things occurred because, there was no sense of history, no sense that the past is living and real. So the song is about this happening to this character. He moves ahead. He tries to make the right moves. He awakes from a vision of his death, and realizes: life is finite. Time is with me always. And I'm frightened. And he rides west where he settles down. But the past comes back in the form of this bounty hunter, whose mind is also quickened and burdened by the need to get his man. And these possessed creatures meet along the shores of this river where the bounty hunter of course is killed, and his last words are: 'We can't undo the things we've done.' In other words, your past is your past. You carry it with you always. These are your sins. You carry them with you always. You better learn how to live with them, learn the story that they're telling you. Because they're whispering your future in your ear, and if you don't listen, it will be contaminated by the toxicity of your past." |
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| Cheap Trick – Surrender Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| just saw cheap trick about a month ago and i still dont know what the line, "rolling number rock and rolling" means. can someone help | |
| Bruce Springsteen – Lost In The Flood Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| In the first verse hes talking about a man whos returned from the war (Vietnam), Back then soldiers returning from war were not greeted with much respect and it seems that after seeing what hes come home to he like many vietnam vets turned to drugs. Sticker smiles sweet is referring to gunner and a needle which is what you would use for heroine, as gunner breathes deep, taking a deep breath before shooting the junk. His ankles caked in mud, usually if your sinking in the mud youve gotten yourself into a hole or bad situation, bruce sings gunner man thats quicksand,thats quicksand that aint mud, telling gunner that heroine is going to be alot worse than sinking in the mud its a longer way down. the rest is pretty self explanitory. lost in the flood to me means ones own inability to not think clearly and just take the path thats easiest at the time. but thats my own opinion... | |
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