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| Roxy Music – Avalon Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I guess I take this song more literally, than most. In the first verse I see a man who has been dancing at the Avalon Ballroom (late 60's San Francisco). He meets a girl and they make a most electrifying eye contact. The second verse I see as the dance representing the dizziness of love at first sight. The bridge is a sexual metaphor. The last verse is the next morning and the man wants to hold on to his new lover. |
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| Chris Isaak – Shadows In A Mirror Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I have been working on a cover of this song, so I had some time to think about it. This is a detached view of a personal breakup. When he says, "I'm watching somebody's world at an end", he is talking about himself, because he is looking in a mirror. Other than that, the meaning is pretty straightforward.. |
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| Johnny Cash – Jackson Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Yes, but it does resolve in the end, when they declare, "Yeah, WE'RE going to Jackson. |
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| Johnny Cash – Jackson Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I am from Tennessee and have many relatives from the country but I have never heard the phrase, "wreck your hell". "Wreck your health", I have heard. I couldn't find any references online for "wreck your hell', either. |
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| Johnny Cash – Jackson Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Gaby Wheeler is a pseudonym for the prolific pop songwriter, Jerry Lieber, of Brill Building fame. His regular songwriting partner was Mike Stoller, with whom he wrote some of the biggest pop songs of the 50's and 60's. |
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| Echo and the Bunnymen – The Cutter Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I agree with OneTwo about the song being about their career and art. I always thought the cutter was the guy who edited the music. Cello-tape or Sellotape and knives were used in the tape splicing process, before studios went digital, in the 90's. |
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| Waylon Jennings – Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way? Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I love this song but it is a little out of kilter in a couple of ways. As far as the road life and drug use, yes Hank did do it that way. He suffered from partial spina bifida so he was in pain most of his waking hours. He self-medicated just to keep playing music and it ultimately cost him his life. From what I have read of Waylon and the other seminal Outlaw Country artists is that what they didn't like was the "Nashville Sound" and the Nashville system. The powers that be in Music City in the 60's and 70's were ashamed of their hillbilly roots and did everything they could to make Country Music palatable to more sophisticated tastes. If that meant adding strings and horns and stripping away the soul of a song, so be it. There was also the studio system. Very few band members were heard on their own albums. There was of course the "A Team" and many other notable studio musicians who stood in for road bands in the studio. So, Waylon had his criticisms of Music City but he didn't exactly voice them in this song. By the way, I grew up in Nashville, born in 1954, and I am a musician. |
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