| America – A Horse With No Name Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Hmm...well until the writer steps forward and tells us exactly what he meant then we will never know. All we can do is guess and then laugh later. I think that maybe, just maybe, the desert is the new lifestyle that the singer is experiencing, a lifestyle involving money, fame, ECT....Possibly the horse is his old self, when he didn't have a name or any fame. Now he's on the horse, (his own self-identity), and in his new identity of fame he's riding through the desert, a desert where no one really cares about who you really are, they just love you cause your rich, famous, and have a band. At first the desert felt good cause prior to the desert he was in the rain, probably back home somewhere in BFE. No one knew him; he wanted fame; it was dark and gloomy because he didn't ever imagine that he would get there. He steps into the desert and at first it feels good to be out of the rain. In the desert they don't remember your name, as in they don't give a dam about who you really are, your self-identity, "Just give us more good music". Then he goes on to say that there ain't no one for to give you no pain. At this point the fame has led to callousness and he could care less about his fans and the money. Now, that being said we can all laugh about it cause maybe he was on lsd when he wrote and there was no meaning to it whatsoever. Or, there could be a Native American theme to it as that is what the album cover is about. I'll bet if the song-writer read these comments on this site he'd laugh so hard he'd wet his pants. |
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| America – Tin Man Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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My take on the song is that America did have a specific meaning to it but possibly said all that jargon to the press out of embarassment? If you read into the meaning of the song it seems to say that the Tin Man was a nobody lonely guy. "Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man. That he didn't already have." In truth Oz didn't give the Tin Man a heart. He didn't get anything from Oz (heart) "that he didn't already have" (not a heart). The Tin Man represents a hollow shell of a man in a lonely orchard rusting away. The song also talks about other people having the gift of gab and then seems to say that some will take the bait, (of trying to fit in) and when they fail they will be put on the shelf. In the chorus he says "Please believe in me". Whoever wrote the song is explaining himself. He's the Tin Man and has been put on the shelf but is wanting people to believe in him. Spinning round....image going down represents the heartache of being shelved and thus being a Tin Man. It seems as if the writer wrote the song to express himself. Song writers do this quite often. Songs that come from the heart tend to have more feeling and meaning. And when you listen to the song you can feel it. I think the writer may have been embarassed of the song and its meaning as he got older and so said those things to the press. |
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