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| The Felice Brothers – Frankie's Gun Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Imlearning this on guitar as well and sort of scared that there is a lost verse, a verse about how Frankie later went to get the "rock in the cellar" and killed his mom and sister. |
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| Billy Bragg and Wilco – Walt Whitman's Niece Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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My first thought about this song was that he was making fun of a girl he was hanging out with who apparently said she was Walt Whitmans neice, "but not which neice", hence the theme of the song not remembering which night, seaman, building, stairs and so on. |
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| The Felice Brothers – Don't Wake The Scarecrow Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Well, the man would come in
It's hard living right giving head when<<<<
The sad days of winter have set in
And the medicine for an addict is heroin
>>>>its hard living right getting ahead when |
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| Old Crow Medicine Show – CC Rider Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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i like to imagine cc rider is a bad ass chic who rides a motorcycle. she was so bad ass that he fell in love with her then he realized she was already taken. She cheated on her husband / boyfriend with the writer. Bad ass bitch. |
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| Old Crow Medicine Show – We're All in This Together Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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to me, this song is about finding yourself. And with this song, finding God is finding yourself. it seems as if his "friends" are old "tired, a lil worn", he hardly recognizes them. maybe the londesome deadend roadside south means the opposite of the slow road to freedom. its more comforting to know that were all in this thing together (this world), "this life dont last forever" even tho their old and worn, they still have time to find themselves in this crazy world. |
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| The Avett Brothers – Dancing Daze Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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this song so sweet, to me its about living in the moment, the clowns are the ones who dont and they just wanna get a rise out of someone elses pain, but if you just ignore them and dance (live in the moment) you wont let it get you down |
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| Todd Snider – Play A Train Song Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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skip litz i think was actually his roadie for awhile. he worked sound at the radio cafe, which is no longer there. I can imagine he always yelled in the background "play a f#ckin' train song", which stirred up this song after he died. this is the optimal train song. |
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| Uncle Tupelo – New Madrid Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This song to me is about a love he had with memories of the earthquakes. "All my daydreams disasters" - talking about the earthquake (New Madrid fault line is where they were from - belleville, Ill. Im from Granite City, Ill - lots of earthquakes). "Rivers burn then run backwards" - i think there was an incident where there was an earthquake that made a river literally run backwards for awhile. "they all come from new york city" - talking about all the news trucks that came, tons of them. Mr. Brownings predictions were usually right. Im sure it stirred up this little town and maybe jeff and his girlfriend took a walk down to the fountain in the middle of bellville to see what all the commotion was. Probably being sort of frightened, im sure she held onto his arm.
They must have broken up, she moved away or maybe even she died. "C'mon do what you did" - he wants the earthquakes to bring her back, although it was a scary tragic disaster - he had a good memory tied up in it with this girl. He sings about Mr. Browning who is the person who stirred up all this commotion with his predictions. He wants the big news trucks to come back and wake him up at dawn. But what he wants most is his girlfriend back "shake my baby and please bring her back". I dont know what "carom" means, but he makes some references to death and "buries us all in its broken back" which makes me think that maybe she died. |
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