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| Genesis – All In A Mouse's Night Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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@[absinthedude:35769] Phil wasn't crazy about that lyric either. From a 1982 interview: "Tony knows I'm less enamoured with some of his stuff [...] I'm the singer in the group, I have to sing those lyrics. If someone's not a singer, they come in with lyrics that look good but aren't easy to sing. I've had all sort of things to cope with, I mean "breadbin" was in one song, what the f*** do you do with that?" |
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| Ben Folds Five – The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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The lyrics are about Hornby's friend, author Sarah Vowell. As interpreted by Folds: "... the world can sometimes feel like a thuggish place, not all that friendly. And up in your mind you can have your books, you can have any thoughts that you want, and that is kind of the story of his friend's life. There's a big rock show going on outside and that's awesome, but she's kind of up in her head, which is far more dangerous and noisier. It's like Keats and Emerson and all these people are playing a rock concert in their heads. That's kind of what he's talking about." |
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| Genesis – Paperlate Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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This was recorded earlier, between Collins' first two solo albums. But yes, it was his collaboration with the Phenix Horns on "Face Value" that prompted the idea to use them on Paperlate and No Reply At All. |
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| Peter Gabriel – No Way Out Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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The memory of the goldfish in a plastic bag also ties into the idea of life's fragility ("it slipped and fell"), and demonstrates a similar tenacity not to give up hope ("we looked everywhere"). |
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| Genesis – Anything She Does Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I just recently rediscovered this track, an easy one to overlook, but musically a well-crafted and catchy pop song. The lyrics explore some of the same ideas as "Turn It On Again" -- obsession with a fictional character or fantasy-version of a celebrity -- from a more objective point of view. It's almost as if the "Albert" character from TIOG is trying to break out of his delusion -- perhaps he's undergone some therapy -- and is attempting to rationalize the obsession, while clearly still incapable of turning it off completely ("Do you think this aching could be love?" and the final lyric "I think it's love"). |
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| Peter Gabriel – Here Comes The Flood Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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How many versions of this song has he recorded? The word "lord" is pretty clear in every one that I've heard. The chorus in the earlier versions had "we'll" instead of "we will"; I agree the latter enunciation give the lyric much more power. |
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| Genesis – Eleventh Earl Of Mar Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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The lyrics were actually written by Mike Rutherford, not Tony Banks. "I had this idea after reading this history book about a failed Scottish rising. I liked the idea of him -- he was a bit gay, a bit camp, and a bit well-dressed."
The numbering method for Earls of Mar varies, so the John Erskine of the song is also considered the 6th and 22nd Earl of Mar, depending on where one starts counting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Erskine,_22nd_Earl_of_Mar |
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| Ben Folds – Brainwashed Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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There's certainly more than just one person to consider in this song. You've got the musician who actually wrote the "pop song", and then the "girl" who "brainwashed" that person as well as some other unknown victim(s) of brainwashing ("she's brainwashed you *too*"). Then there's the songwriter's wife and another intimate companion -- I hear the last verse as "in '94 getting blown in your basement (while your wife slept)." So a whole cast of characters in this musical soap opera.
BTW, going by the track listings on Way to Normal and Stems and Seeds, the official title of this song is "Brainwascht", while the "fake" version kept the spelling "Brainwashed", rather than the other way around. |
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