| Grateful Dead – Uncle John's Band Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This is my interpretation, and it is based on no research, only the images that I get when I hear the song. It is about death and going over to the other side. Uncle John's band is there to guide across the river to the afterlife. |
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| Warren Zevon – Excitable Boy Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I really don't think this song is an attack on the left, but more of an attack on the "boys will be boys", even when they rape, attitude. I also see it as an attack on the "not my child" mentality of parents. |
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| Paul Simon – Mother and Child Reunion Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I always thought it was about a mother losing her child, and then contemplating suicide to be reunited. (only a motion away) I guess it was the use of the words "Strange and mournful" and "Never been laid so low", the idea being that children are supposed to outlive their parents, not the other way around. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Atlantic City Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Maybe it's because I was born in Atlantic City and lived there for 14 years as an adult when the Casinos came, but I love this song. But I think it's deeper than just rebirth, I think it's about the disappointment of a rebirth that doesn't get rid of the dirty past. Look at the video...that's the real Atlantic City (at least at the time). The inlet, Pauline's Prairie, it's all there. Only thing missing is Nicholson's Bar. Because the Casinos didn't make everyone rich. The sand wasn't turned to gold for the homeless who lived under the boardwalk. It broke as many people as it made. And that's what line "Maybe everything that dies, some day comes back" means. It refers to the guy who, no matter what he does, he can't escape his past. Just as they couldn't get rid of the rotten soul of AC by putting up glitzy Casinos, this guy and his girl can get dressed up and all, but they are still the same people (no luck and no love) and finally doing the favor (doesn't matter if it is a killing or some other nefarious deed, it's something the singer doesn't want to mention by name) has him back where he started. |
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| Kenny Loggins – Return To Pooh Corner Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I heard an interview in which Loggins said that the orignal song, "House at Pooh Corner" was about missing the innocence and wonder of childhood, but when he became a father, he found it again through his son, hence "Return to pooh corner" | |
| Neil Young – After the Gold Rush Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I was told that this song was about what happens after a nuclear holocaust. I have no evidence of that, other than that's what everyone said when the album first came out. | |
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