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| The Pogues – Rainy Night in Soho Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This is a love song to alcohol. For me, it reminds me of someone I used to get drunk in Soho with too. Especially 'I never think about the last' - the shame that excessive drinking brings! I imagine Shane picking up a pint glass and lifting it in the air when he sings 'you're the measure of my dreams.' Incidentally he used to drink in an irish bar in the Holloway Road, a pint of various spirits mixed together. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Atlantic City Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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One of his absolute best. It's so tragic, because the very specific events that he describes are clearly going to lead to the downfall of the protagonist, but he has hope and faith because that's all he's got left. A person crushed by the bigger machine of what's going on around him, who is powerless to do anything about it. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Bobby Jean Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Agree with all of the above, but Stay Free has a happy reunion at the end of it, while Bobby Jean is very sad because the only resolution Bruce can find is to relive the love in a song. "Now there ain't nobody, nowhere, nohow, Gonna ever understand me the way you did." It reminds me of something his wife said in an interview about the loneliness of Bruce, maybe of artists generally, and that Steve left the E Street band because he felt his identity was becoming subsumed by Bruce's. |
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