| Cream – SWLABR Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| Clearly it's a song about infidelity, but all the lyrics don't have to be about sex, folks! "You've got that rainbow feel" could just mean that she's: stunning, exotic, rare, etc. and "such good responses" could mean VERBAL responses. I.E: 'you've got such good excuses'...and that fits well with the beard and mustache imagery...she is a bad woman in disguise. Dont you remember? in the olden days, beards and mustaches were the disguise of choice. "The rainbow has a beard" means she's too good to be true. | |
| The Band – The Weight Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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'Carmen and the Devil' = temptation. 'Go Down Miss Moses, ain't nothin you can say' = The old Testament is overshadowed by the New Testament 'It's just ol Luke and Luke's waitin....' = The New Testament (Luke) is what most people adhere to, as it talks about 'Judgment Day' and of course, the Messiah. Not sure about what keeping Annie company means, or the verse on Crazy Chester. The last verse is about Jesus' death, going back to Heaven (where Annie is). He says Annie is the only one who actually wanted a 'Son' for everyone (read up on Hannah from the Old Testament, everyone!) |
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| The Band – The Weight Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This is crystal clear to me - This is a song about Jesus Christ, actually perhaps a denial that he is son of God, or at the very least, a mockery of martyrdom. Jesus WAS rejected from Nazareth upon his return (not Bethlehem). Annie is either St. Anne (grandmother of Mary) or Anna (Anna the prophetess who proclaimed Jesus arrival, but actually was more into praying to God regularly). Carmen | |
| Buffalo Springfield – Broken Arrow Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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here is my take on it: the song is about white man versus native indians and the success one group has had over the other in modern society. We need to remember to be grateful fo the natives who shared their land. basically the whole song tries to convey that our modern life as we know it is because the indians allowed us to have it. each verse is about some aspect of white man's modern life (and the silliness of it?). verse one: is about the band playing to a crowd. does the band remember the debt they owe to indians for their ultimate success? verse 2: 18 years of american dream is simply a typical american teenager. 'swore on the wall' is seeing his brother's graffiti on the bathroom wall at school. again - do we remember to thank the indians for our 'american dream'? verse 3: the queen and her husband (with elaborate sunshades at dawn - the sun is not even very strong then). the royal marriages were often for the sake of ending wars, nothing more: "married for peace and were gone". hope this helps |
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| Neil Young – Helpless Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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i think interviews are great because we get a chance to learn what's inside the heads of such poets! 'Wikipedia' writes: Young himself cleared up the rumors in a 1995 Mojo interview with Nick Kent: "Well, it's not literally a specific town so much as a feeling. Actually, it's a couple of towns. Omemee, Ontario, is one of them. It's where I first went to school and spent my 'formative' years. Actually I was born in Toronto..." well, i was born and raised in Hamilton Ontario. We had a 'cottage' very close to Omemee. Just to bring Americans up to 'Ontari-ese', 'cottage' refers to cabins on lakes, which abound in Ontario. Huge numbers of Torontonians and other southern Ontarians flock 2 hours each weekend to these places, which is universally called "up North". All kids would say "I'm going up North this weekend", even if it is geographically in central Ontario. The metaphor is that it was more North than where you currently were, and it was a beautiful escape from the city. i think the song is about pleasant memories, not bad ones. Go with the obvious! ("dream comfort memory to spare, etc".) i think "helpless" refers to how we feel when we are mesmorized by something so beautiful ('she made me feel weak in the knees', etc). Not sure about the "chains across the doors part", but often when we go back to a place of our childhood, we find sentimental places to be boarded up, or even gone, and it hurts. this memory is supported by the line he sings out to someone dear in his past "baby can you hear me now..." "baby, sing with me somehow". This song is a timeless wonder, as is 'northern ontario'. those of you who have spent a lot of time there can understand it the best. |
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