| Champion – No Heaven Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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| Champion – No Heaven Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It seems obvious this song refers to someone working on the chain gang on a county road. "There ain't no heaven" refers to the hell the singer is going through. The part about the "dear old mother" is a standard staple of prison blues. The "don't talk about it" and "don't come around me" parts presumably refer to the singer not wanting to think about what he'd done. And of course someone working on the chain gang is not going to be brought any silver or gold. |
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| Meat Loaf – Original Sin Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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If you want to hear a really good version of this song, find the Jim Steinman's Pandora's Box album. I get a definite vibe of world-weariness from it. Someone looking for something new ("original") to do in the world, because he (or she) feels he's already done it all–including some things he really wants to forget about. "Sin" partly for the pun with "original", and partly because of the old cliché that if anything's fun or enjoyable, it must also be sinful. (You know, like how anything really delicious is "sinfully good", even though it's not a sin to eat something tasty unless you take it to the extreme of gluttony.) But at the same time he knows that no matter what he finds, in the end it will "never be enough" because sooner or later the bar closes, the fun stops, the high wears off, and you're left alone with yourself and your memories of the things you've done. But he keeps looking anyway because he doesn't have anything else to do. (Someone really clever could make a great music video using clips from the new seasons of Doctor Who supporting this interpretation, as that seems to be the kind of character the Doctor has become since he destroyed Gallifrey in the Time War.) |
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| Meat Loaf – Good Girls Go to Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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If you like the Meat Loaf version, dig up Jim Steinman's Pandora's Box, where this song (and a number of others Meat Loaf covered) originally appeared. The Pandora's Box version kicks the Meat Loaf version to the curb. (And I agree, it's definitely about making Mr. or Ms. Happy happier. Only Jim Steinman could get away with making a song like that into a smash hit.) |
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