| Sarah McLachlan – Do What You Have To Do Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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@[aleahy:19787] I'm 12 years late. :) And, yes, I absolutely think the lyrics describe a pair who are in a passionate, obsessive relationship marred by abuse. The first verse: What happened? How has love morphed into a counterfeit by a ravaged spirit that "*Conjures* tempestuous *rage*." (?) "Made you a monster"(?) Later, "Shaken by the *violence* of existing only for you." Her words seem too harsh, explicit and menacing to be metaphorical (IMO). |
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| Rickie Lee Jones – Beat Angels Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Sal Bernardi wrote this song. His version makes more sense. He's talking about leaving a girl in the middle of the night and SHE is only 16 years old. He feels so cold. He feels so to blame. Rickie Lee Jones' version changes the "She" in the lyrics to "They". Leaving one to wonder what the heck Jones is doing with two 16 year olds. I love this song, esp. Bernardi's version. It's so honest. It's brave. He lets the whole world hear about his behavior: "I awoke in some hotel room. I could hardly recall my name (he passed out the night before and now he wakes up and is thinking what the heck happened.) "She was only 16 years old." (This would not have happened if he were sober and he regrets it. Still, he doesn't wqrry too much, because he has Beat Angels to play music for (or with) him. |
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| Joni Mitchell – Little Green Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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(I'm tearing up, too) "Call her green so the winters cannot fade her Call her green for the children who've made her" Joni's trying to protect her daughter but she IS alone and that was not an accepting time for single unwed mothers. Joni *did* marry Chuck Mitchell, who was not the baby's father but Joni thought if she married Chuck (I think that's his name) he'd accept and raise her child. He did not really want to raise Kelly. Green is a name for Kelly (i.e., Kelly Green, a color). Green also means naive. This lyric is so clever and so damn sad. I read that Kelly and Joni did reconnect later in life, but I don't think the reconnection was successful for either one. This is a very sad song. Joni is not ashamed because SHE is willing to grow up and be a mother but the father is NOT and he WON'T marry Joni and step up to the plate for their baby. Joni's "Sad and sorry" but she's "Not ashamed". Why should she be? She has done everything in her power to keep her child (including marrying a man who suggested he would accept Joni and her daughter as a package deal but he only really wanted Joni and not the child of another man. Very, Very sad song, and also speaks to Joni's unselfishness. She wants her daughter to have a family with two parents and who perhaps can (at that time) provide better than Joni, alone is able to do for Kelly. I love Joni Mitchell. I think she will be go down in history as a genius. |
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| Warren Zevon – Mama Couldn't Be Persuaded Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Sad, beautiful, and IMO, autobiographical. | |
| Warren Zevon – Desperados Under The Eaves Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| California sliding into the ocean refers to earthquakes, and the funny part is even if a Hollywood Motel, not close as close to the Pacific as some is tranported via into the sea, it will only be AFTER Warren has paid his bill. I love that line, as well. | |
| Warren Zevon – Carmelita [1974 Demo] Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I love this sweet, tragic, gritty, Los Angeles - Mexico song and all its characters! | |
| Warren Zevon – Tule's Blues Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| This is a beautiful song that I came across in a record store on Westwood Blvd. I was so delighted to find a record (Wanted Dead or Alive) that Zevon made even before Jackson Browne helped him get his big break, leading to Zevon's first "real" record, titled Warren Zevon. | |
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