| Blue Öyster Cult – Burnin' For You Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[randy91:51950] Very good observation, observe the 3rd paragraph of the Jack Kerouac article in Wikipedia. The song could literally have been penned by Jack Kerouac. Richard Meltzer was a fan and wrote stream of consciousness songs like Jack Kerouac's writings. The song could be a homage to Jack Kerouac, or it could be about similarities of Jack Kerouac's life to Blue Oyster Cult's life on the road as rock musicians. | |
| Blue Öyster Cult – Burnin' For You Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[rwbeckett71:51949] "I'm living for giving the devil his due" means he's living life to the fullest, he's not holding back or being good to get into heaven, doing pre-marital sex, maybe adultery, doing drugs, other standard rock musician things that would keep you out of heaven ... | |
| The Killers – When You Were Young Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Reinterpretation : First two stanzas are about going out with a "beautiful" boy who is nothing like jesus, he's mean and hurts her and makes her heart ache. As usual. Next 7 stanzas are about her redemption with her real savior - a nice boy. "Can we climb this mountain..." - doing something together, helping the girl get over her failed relationship ... "We're burning down the highway on the back of a hurricane from when you were young" - trying to get her away from her "hurricane ways" from when she was young, she needs to grow up, "And sometimes you close your eyes and see the place where you ysed to live" - she summons her idealism again from her youth, "they say the devils water aint so sweet." - this is actually her new boyfriend saying that he forgives her for her past dumb boyfriend mistakes, and in the last 3 stanzas, they go out, and he becomes her savior in the final line of the song. |
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| The Killers – When You Were Young Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| @[fr0st2k:669] Great interpretation of the last line in the song. When she eventually meets the "nice guy" of the type she's been neglecting all her life, she doesn't recognize him, either ("he doesn't look a thing like Jesus"), but he saves her anyway from all her horrible mistakes ("but more than you'll ever know") | |
| The Killers – When You Were Young Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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@[ME68:668] I think you just about nailed it. This song is about young women, but from an average male perspective. Young women are told from childhood that they are looking for a man to "save them" or "rescue them" as if their life will be ruined if they don't marry a perfect guy. So when they are young they imagine finding someone perfect to marry, somebody like Jesus. So why (from a male perspective) do so many young and beautiful women end up dating mostly asshole men in their younger years, leaving the real saints in the dustbin? I mean are you kidding me? It was quite annoying to watch this happen over and over and over again, in my college years. Guys bedding women every week were the ones that had NO respect among their fellow males,. and it wasn't because they were promiscuous, it was because they were selfish jerks! Two reasons are alluded to in the middle of the song. One is, "He doesn't look a bit like Jesus, but he talks like a gentleman .. like you imagined .. when you were young", i.e. women are very easy to fool when they are attracted to somebody else. And they make dumb choices. A second reason is also alluded to, "They say the devil's water - it ain't so sweet .. You don't have to drink right now .. But you can dip your feet .. Every once in a little while" and this means that with their newfound sexual power women sometimes just date schmucks for the hell of it, because they can, they have a one-night stand to boost their self esteem, playing the dark side, or get into a relationship with e.g. a two-timing cheat (as in the music video) just to be wild. the very last stanza might be about the nice guy that she eventually settles for (hopefully) after dating all the assholes, "He doesn't look a thing like Jesus, but more than you'll ever know" means that when the marriageable guy eventually shows up, she doesn't recognize him, either. This song is just so true to me ... |
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