| Vampire Weekend – Hudson Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Only comment worth reading here. +1 | |
| Vampire Weekend – Hudson Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I was going to try and respond to your comment, but then I realized it's impossible to respond to nonsense so I'll just highlight the statements in your comment which don't make any sense. "It's like seeing the kids fight, as they're the victims." -- Great explanation. "The dead,and the two (don't want to spoil) who lived are the vets,the viewpoint." -- Eh? "but I feel like this song was made for the book I read." -- Really, made for the book you happened to be reading? "Because a winner from the book smiled for the cameras.They couldn't do anything else to cover the pressure. The clock part symbolizes the map and forbidden zones. " --You're only in middle school, right? |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Long Walk Home Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Also the "Rank strangers" is an interesting reference to this country song: http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/skaggs-ricky/rank-stranger-1599.html | |
| Bruce Springsteen – Long Walk Home Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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As Bruce told the New York Times: “The singer in ‘Long Walk Home,’ his world has changed. The things that he thought he knew, the people who he thought he knew, whose ideals he had something in common with, are like strangers. The world that he knew feels totally alien. I think that’s what’s happened in this country in the past six years.” |
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| Bruce Springsteen – The Ghost Of Tom Joad Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I posted a reply below. | |
| Bruce Springsteen – The Ghost Of Tom Joad Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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There's a lot of stupid comments on this song. "grapes of wrath is all this song is about": no, why would he mention "families sleeping in cars in the southwest?" and the "Ghost" of Tom Joad. this song is set in the 1990s. He even references George H.W. Bush's 1990 speech (not the conspiracy theory), which said: "Until now, the world we’ve known has been a world divided — a world of barbed wire and concrete block, conflict and cold war. Now, we can see a new world coming into view. A world in which there is the very real prospect of a new world order. In the words of Winston Churchill, a 'world order' in which 'the principles of justice and fair play ... protect the weak against the strong ...' " Springsteen is clearly ironically quoting Bush's speech. Bush said the "new world" wouldn't be divided, and would have justice for the weak. Obviously, five years later this didn't happen and probably never will in America. This is one of my favorite songs. As soon as I hear that opening harmonica I get chills. There's really something magical about this recording. It's a sad but beautiful commentary on the inequalities of life, 60 years after Guthrie wrote "The Ballad of Tom Joad". His ghost haunts us everyday, but still gives us hope for a better world. More so now than even in the 90s, with so many people losing their homes. |
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