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| The Cranberries – Dreaming My Dreams Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I'm not religious at all, but the line "Into my faith, you and your baby" makes me think of Mary and Jesus. I wonder if it's not a love song but a song to Mary, saying that she believes that God is "out there". |
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| Jackson Browne – My Opening Farewell Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I see how it could be about a couple breaking up, but I see it more as a man whose daughter is moving out. I'm not sure why I see it that way, but it makes sense in that in the first verse he refers to her as "A lady" showing she's grown up and they are not so close anymore, and she needs to go out into the world for herself. Again when he mentions the "child's drawings" and "a woman's silk", he is referencing her growth again. He realizes she will never see his vision of having her close to him. But is trying to comfort her and himself by saying that she can visit often via the "train everyday, leaving either way". The next line "there's a world you know" could be spoken by the daughter who is trying to explain herself.
Finally, he accepts her leaving and knowing that he will lose her more and more as she grows older and that he will repeat the process with his other children, he says "this is my opening farewell." |
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| Jackson Browne – Rosie Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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The masturbation plot works out but I always saw it to be about a man whose now settling for Rosie who is alright, but not the groupie who left him for the drummer. Maybe Rosie is masturbation and he's settling for that? Jackson has said that this happened to a friend of his. |
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| Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen cover) Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I feel like the songs about former lovers who meet again after some time. It's difficult to explain how this is proven but I feel like it's the third and fourth verses that make it clearest. It seems to me that the singer is still hurting about the breakup and is trying to hide this by veiling his pain in religion. It's obvious that the singer is in some emotional pain in the final line of verse 3 "It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah", which is probably my favourite line in the piece. The final verse though, is like the singer's confession that he is not over the other person yet.
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