| Joel Plaskett Emergency – Penny For Your Thoughts Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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| Cat Power – Song for Bobby Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Absolutely. The way she sings the song is more revealing than the lyrics. She clearly makes an effort to do a bit of Dylan impression. The song itself is beautiful but lacks depth if you ask me. I wish she was a little more complex in describing her love of Bob. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – I'll Work For Your Love Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I've always interpreted this song as Bruce addressing his fan-base. As such, it is a love song. In my reading of the lyrics, Theresa is a metaphor for Springsteen's fans, and he basically casts his fans as some sort of immense religious figure, aligning God with his fans and his religious faith to his devotion to his listeners. I sincerely doubt that this is about Bruce relationship with God or Christianity, but rather he's saying that he's as devoted to his fans as much as some people are devoted to God. |
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| Monsters of Folk – The Right Place Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Great song. Contradicts it's own chorus with it's verses. Inner struggle, conflicting thoughts, moral crisis. This is what this "happy" song is all about. |
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| Bob Dylan – It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It's all a sexual metaphor. "Die", if you know your Shakespeare, is slang for "orgasm" and if you analyze the lyrics, you'll see that Bob seems to be romanticizing/embracing sexuality. "Well, if I die On top of the hill And if I don't make it, You know my baby will." "Die on top of the hill" might refer to simultaneous climaxing and "if I don't make it, you know my baby will" is pretty straightforward. In the second verse, he really romanticizes sexuality by presenting all these beautiful images, "the moon shining through the trees", "the sun...going down over the sea" and comparing them to his "gal coming after me" (which is also pretty straightforward in it's sexual connotations). The last verse is where it becomes open to interpretation. I think Bob is trying to emphasize sexual mutuality ("I wanna be your lover, I don't wanna be your boss"), saying that he doesn't want to have to do all the work everytime (sexual frustration maybe). That last verse is really open to interpretation. |
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