| The Beatles – I Want You (She's So Heavy) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| If you've seen the film "Let it Be" you can see that John and Yoko were both on heroin during these sessions. Side one of Abbey Road has contibutions from all the other 3 Beatles. Hell, even Ringo has his own song in it. Only the final song "I want you" is John's, and it keeps repeating the same sentence over and over again. This is his confession that he cannot think of anything else but the drug, while the band is secondary. | |
| The Posies – Flood Of Sunshine Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Great, great song. "Flood of Sunshine" is a tribute to Led Zeppelin classic "Thank You". The acoustic riff is an exact match to "Thank you". If you want to understand these lyrics, you should also look at "Thank You" lyrics for hints. Very similar. | |
| My Morning Jacket – Into the Woods Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Each verse represents a 2-part dialogue. The dialogue begins with a moaning person with an unhappy life. We can combine his thoughts from the 3 verses as follows: Sad hero: "A kitten on fire, a baby in a blender. Both sound as sweet as a night of surrender. Put in more than you could ever get out. I'm tired of the talking, I know what you're about. A good showerhead and my right hand, the two best lovers that I ever had." In these outbursts the hero opens up about his long witheld, surpressed, depressing emotions. The sad hero here has a family, but he feels this family was a mistake, and even though the first line here is highly exaggerated, I don't agree it's ironical. He then goes on to complain that he can't even begin to discuss with his/her partner because of knowing what it would lead up to. Lastly he admits he has never had a satisfactory love life. Second person steps in with his advice: Content hero: "I know it ain't easy, but you do what you can. If your livin gets weezy, you can follow this plan: Now open your mouth, here comes the spoon. You're gonna eat what I give ya, and you're gonna like it real good. Now if you find you agree with what I just said, you'd better find a new love and let 'em into your head" What we have left now to solve is the chorus, the riddle. The metaphor "to the woods" has been around for a few decades at least and it pops up now and then in song lyrics. For example, Paul Simon wrote in 1972: "she took me to the woods" referring to him having sex with a girl. I assume it has the same meaning here. When the riddler goes "over the river" to do it, that should mean that the act is not done with a usual partner, but someone else. I prefer not to express parts of my interpretation of this particular riddle. The last two sentenses in the chorus could mean at least two things: 1) the sad hero himself - who still thinks that he could have been the hottest lover in different circumstances, but instead chose to live "another fool's dream". 2) A prostitute - also a "hot lover" and also "lives another fool's dream". |
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