| Kate Bush – Coffee Homeground Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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From an interview with Kate Bush on a Promo Cassette for Lionheart, 1978: KB: "Yeah, well there's one called Coffee Homeground which was in fact inspired directly from a cab driver that I met who was in fact a bit nutty. And it's just a song about someone who thinks they're being poisoned by another person, they think that there's Belladonna in their tea and that whenever they offer them something to eat, it's got poison in it. And it's just a humorous aspect of paranoia really and we sort of done it in a Brechtian style, the old sort of jamming [??? vibe] to try and bring across the humour side of it." http://gaffa.org/reaching/im78_lh.html http://katebushforum.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=4080 |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Dancing In The Dark Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think that the reason it's so hard to pin down the meaning of many songs, as it is with this one, is that they're not about any one particular subject. They're more of a "stream of consciousness" touching on many subjects and emotions. So you may have parts that are about some specific thing and other parts that are just words strung together that the writer feels may help describe some emotion. That's why writers, when asked about their lyrics, often give vague answers, if they answer at all. To me, there's a good chance that this song touches on the majority of issues described in previous posts. | |
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