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| Swans – Beautiful Child Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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@[waful:17730] I don't think you're correct here. The entire album is about God and religion. The song is from Abraham's perspective when he is asked to sacrifice his son Isaac (the Beautiful Child). |
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| Swans – Beautiful Child Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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Kind of odd not to see any of the comments mention this, but I've always thought that this song is pretty blatantly about Abraham and Isaac. |
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| Swans – Blind Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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*sigh* I suppose this song will never list the correct credits. I dont know who Jon Lord is (google says he's from Deep Purple), but he did not write this song. It's a Swans song, written by Michael Gira. Not the Lifehouse guy, or the Nixons guys, or the Deep Purple guy. |
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| The Gadjits – Bad Gadjit Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Man, when I was younger and cruisin' around in my shitty '86 Cadillac in the very early 2000s, I always used to think the lyrics were something like 'cause I can suck your fuckin bone until you get what you deserve and I'm bad'. I knew that couldn't be the lyric, and here I am like 14 years later confirming that. |
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| Gram Parsons – Return Of The Grievous Angel Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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actually, everyone is wrong. true, a fan named thomas brown wrote the song. however, the 'amphetamine king' is neither elvis nor 'whoever the listener wants it to be'. the king is gram. check out the following resource:
http://whenyouawake.com/2010/11/12/the-return-of-the-grievous-angel-the-story-behind-the-song/ |
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| Swans – Blind Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I noticed that whoever is out there correcting the liner notes/credits for these songs took my earlier suggestion and changed the 'written by' part of this and removed the Lifehouse guy as song writer. However, he/she/they then added a bunch of names of guys from the Nixons. Michael Gira wrote this song. Please see this link: http://www.allmusic.com/album/various-failures-1988-1992-mw0000048567
Track #15. Note the composer. Sorry to be a stick-in-the-mud about this. |
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| Swans – Blind Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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This song is definitely, definitely not written by Jason Wade. Jason Wade is, according to the internet, the lead singer of Lifehouse. Apparently, Lifehouse also has a song named 'Blind'. This song has nothing to do with that and is written by Michael Gira. Please fix this. |
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| Odawas – Love Is. . . (The Only Weapon With Which I Got To Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I made this second lyric page for this song because the other one was incorrect.
The lyrics to this song are a speech that was delivered by Jim Jones of the Jonestown Massacre in Guyana in 1978 some time before the mass suicide. They all drank poisoned Kool-Aid (which is the origin of the saying "drinking the Kool-Aid")
The lyric "Let them hear it in the night" refers to those who Jones claimed would surround the Jonestown compound in order to capture Jones due to human right issues and murders, notably of the US Congressman Leo Ryan.
More info about this specific speech can be found here: bit.ly/ixC15P
Also, for what it's worth, the definitive book about the whole Jonestown incident came out in 1982 and is entitled, "Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People". The name of this Odawas album is "Raven and the White Night". In addition, in the documentary about Jonestown (titled "Jonestown" and released by PBS), Jim Jones says, in reference to dying, the phrase "getting to another plane", which is the title of a song on this album. I'm sure there are other connections between this album and Jonestown (I believe Jones' voice is also heard on "The Maddening of Raven" [there's the word "Raven" again]). Truly a wonderfully chilling and haunting album. |
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| Leonard Cohen – The Stranger Song Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I mentioned this connection a little while ago, a few comments up. I will say, though, that this song is actually based on the *book* 'The Man with the Golden Arm' and not the movie. The book and the movie are wildly different, so different that Nelson Algren, the writer of the book, was essentially fired from the movie in his role as consultant because he did not like the direction they were taking the movie in. The extremely close relationship that this song has with that book does not at all change anyone's interpretation of this song, but I'd recommend that anyone out there read that book. It's incredible and really enhances this song.
I just wanted to make that distinction. I'm glad that someone else noted the connection between TMWTGA and this song. |
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| Destroyer – Your Blood Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I don't claim to know anything at all, but I do wonder if he is referencing the title of this song and his previous album when he says "Your Blood vs. Your Blues". |
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| Odawas – Love Is... (The Only Weapon With Which I Got To Fight) Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Not only is the above commenter right about the lyric being "I got my claws, I got cutlasses", but the lyric certainly isn't "He fucked up!", it's "he was shot down". The speech is being delivered by Jim Jones of the Jonestown Massacre. He was trying to say that MLK, Jr. and Kennedy died because they espoused love.
By the same token, the lyric is not "Let them do it in the night". It is "Let them hear it in the night". He is referring to those who had surround the Jonestown compound in order to capture Jones due to human right issues and murders, notably of the US Congressman Leo Ryan.
Also, for what it's worth, the definitive book about the whole Jonestown incident came out in 1982 and is entitled, "Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People". The name of this Odawas album is "Raven and the White Night". Truly a wonderfully chilling and haunting album. |
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| Can – Spoon Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I've been loving this song for a few years, and never would've really guessed that these were the lyrics. Question, though: does he really say, "Waiting fork brings a knife"? I listened to it over and over and can't make out what he says, but it sounds more like, "Lend me a fork, weeds a knife". Google search results give "waiting fork, weeds alive", which doesn't sound right to me. Oh well, a wonderful mystery. |
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| Leonard Cohen – The Stranger Song Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I just realized that I have an extra 'a' in there. The penultimate sentence should read:
"His wife is in a wheelchair after losing the use of her legs as a result of Frankie crashing their car while drunk." |
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| Leonard Cohen – The Stranger Song Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I'm surprised that no one has yet mentioned this, but this song's lyrics were heavily inspired by the Nelson Algren novel, "The Man with the Golden Arm." The book is about a WWII veteran named Francis Majcinek ("Frankie Machine") who is addicted to heroin and also deals poker in an all-night club. His wife is in a wheelchair after losing the use of her legs as a result of a Frankie crashing their car while drunk. I highly recommend the book on its own but also for the somewhat similar lyrical style that it shares with this and some other Cohen songs. |
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| John Cale – Hanky Panky Nohow Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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i think Ar-Kikan gets it right (basically, that the first verse is saying to look to nature and not man).
i want to add, though, that i believe the lyrics are incorrect. i hear 'elephants that sing to feed', not 'sing to keep'. that said, the second time the chorus is sung, cale most definitely says 'name' and not 'law'. it doesn't change the meaning, but i think accuracy should be striven for with song meanings. |
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