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| Neil Young – When You Dance You Can Really Love Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Heart and soul is kenned hereby. One of my all-time favorites by Neil Young, who is just about my all-time favorite recording artist but no, that is just too too unjust to single out one when that era had such a slew of greats ...at least a hundred super-greats and at least 500 close runners-up. Man o man, were those the times though -- BEST time to be growing up. Then along came Reagan and life got lousy. Now human life/endeavor is but a pitiable remnant, utter vainglory, totally corrupt and shallow and our species is about ready to call it quits. Thanks, Neil. |
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| Joni Mitchell – Michael From Mountains Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I always dearly loved this song, so simple, so sweet, so natural and serene. It's just flower child rantings at its best is this tune. We were dreamers then, oh were we ever, untouchable, uncorruptable, just open, just real, nothing tragic nothing greedy. Oh we were certainly the veritable crown of creation. Then eventually music videos came along and Wall Street followed close behind. Is it all really that lost forever? It'll never die in this old heart, I can attest. |
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| Traffic – Roamin' Thru the Gloamin' with 40,000 Headmen Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This is a wonderful inspired song. It's obviously about a dream but it has topic value as well. It teaches that things in life are not attained unless you are willing to step away from the usual boring humdrum rat race and take real chances, venture out; find your destiny, don't just sit and let the future come to you or you may later suffer deep disparaging remorse. The first verse sets the tone that way. The other verses are like a dream and are totally cool. Yo, awesome song indeed! |
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| The Rolling Stones – Sympathy for the Devil Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I think this song rails against simplicity, and its sister, dualism. Life is not as simple as some folks would like to make it out to be. The Stones made this tune at a time when notions of a major coming revolution buzzed in most of the younger generation's heads, that is, the famed "counterculture revolution".
"...what's puzzling you is the nature of my game" indicates that those who are tempted to oversimplify the (then current) situation are doomed to disappointment.
The verse, "Just as every cop is a criminal; And all the sinners saints; As heads is tails; Just call me Lucifer", lays bare the trap that is excessive reliance on plain dualism. Note that he says Lucifer and not Satan. I think that's because Lucifer relates to "lucid" and indicates, "clearer heads will prevail", always, over simpletons and their pathetic notions (about who's to blame and what's to come).
The verse, "So if you meet me Have some courtesy; Have some sympathy, and some taste; Use all your well-learned politesse; Or I'll lay your soul to waste", finishes the revelation, making clear that a well-honed mix of acumen will be required to penetrate the fog of those deeply-troubled times.
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| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan cover) Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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It sounds like lament -- but with hope -- about the confused state of the world, especially the misuse of labeling of people. You can't tell the players without a program. You're either a prince, or a servant, or joker, or thief, plowman, businessman, what-have-you.
"Let us not talk falsely now" is key, and denotes a turn in tone to sober seriousness about the fate of things. "The hour is getting late" sounds like a reference to the close-approaching prophesied Eschaton (eg. 12-20-2012). That is strengthened, I think, by reference to "the cold distance", "wildcat growl", "riders approaching"; but especially "the wind began to howl", an (I think) obvious reference to the coming of God's Final Wrath against our species. But I could be wrong. |
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| Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Wooden Ships Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I agree with Tass2 and Evie56 pretty much, except that rather than expressing hope for s brighter tomorrow, the line "We are leaving, you don't need us" implies dissolution to spiritual existence or even no existence, ie. plain death. To stick around would be acceding to complicity in the mayhem, horrors and wars. What's expressed is along the lines perhaps of, "Bahh! Keep it! You can have it! At any cost whatever, we are divorcing ourselves from our elders' mindless sickening depravities". |
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| King Crimson – The Court of the Crimson King Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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It's clear to me the meaning behind these lyrics. Crimson is the color ascribed to someone who is FURIOUS, like for example how God must feel toward mankind for its accrued sins/legacy. But the wise never refer to God directly, for it seems too nutty and conjectural. Instead they refer to God's ordained agents, in this case personified as a crimson (with rage) seated monarch. All the diabolical-sounding fill is some bone-chilling detail of various psychic phantasma that goes on behind the scenes, as humanity approaches the grand finale, ie. the final coming-to-a-head culmination of the Human Saga/Drama. Trippers saw things very clearly circa 1969, same era as shared by seers like Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and a ton of others; most of them with similar mindsets but a tad more tame/pedestrian. King Crimson simply took it to exquisite heights. In other words, the song proclaims (as do many of that era) that THE END IS NEAR!!! |
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