| Eagles – Saturday Night Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I don't agree with the above interpretations of "the dancer" and "the dance" reference. If you listen to that last part of the stanza, he is asking for help, "Someone show me how to tell..." because his life and relationships have gotten so complicated and confusing that he can no longer objectively distinguish the true feeling of love for someone (i.e., for the dancer), from the game of love (i.e.,the dance). Henley also references love as a dance in "Waiting in the Weeds" -- "If finding love is just a dance...proximity and chance...you will excuse me if I skip the masquerade..." In Saturday night, the meaning is similar, "What a tangled web we weave...Go 'round with circumstance." His life has gotten complicated, and his relationship is going in circles, like a spider spinning a tangled web. Proximity, chance, circumstance, love as a dance, etc. the imagery in both songs are very similar. The conclusion in "Waiting in the Weeds" is clear. If this is what trying to find love is all about, I'll take a pass. |
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| The Allman Brothers Band – Melissa Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I just listened to an interview on youtube in which Gregg Allman said that he wrote the song while feeling very lonely in 1967, and he was envisioning in his mind what he considered to be the perfect woman for him at that time. He couldn't come up with a name to finish the song. He sat on the song a while, and then while in a grocery store a mother was calling her little girl's name, Melissa. He went home immediately and finished the song. | |
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