| Fleetwood Mac – Goodbye Baby Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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It sounds like there's more to it than a song about an abortion. She may have several threads going in the song, but mainly the song is a confession, a baring of the heart from one adult to another-- about something that happened a long time back ("it was I who was," "woke up in tears, for all the years"). The singer is talking about a time of parting of ways after words were spoken, a time when "the light went fading fast" for the person whom she's talking to in the song, as this person slipped away. So what they had is this parting of ways, a crisis point one day or evening ("I who went to sleep as two, woke up as one," and "I who went to sleep in tears, woke up in tears"), but it was done in a way that the other person was hurt ("now only your remain, you'll close your eyes and travel back to the time when the light went fading fast"). And she never said goodbye to them. She never talked to them about "the time when the light went fading fast," so she's talking about it now. She notes that they were with her all the time. So, it's probably about her and Lindsey Buckingham. It's like the tender, remorseful flip side of the vengeful, gloating "Gold Dust Woman." Whereas in that song, she soared like a goddess with her defeated prey below, in this one she's below, repentant, begging to be spared. "Gold Dust Woman," "The Chain" (Demo) and "Goodby Baby" look at the same relationship rupture from different viewpoints and angles, because Stevie Nicks was a prolific songwriter and looked at the few things that were important to her from different artistic perspectives. In "Goodbye Baby," having rehashed the scenes of the breakup, and shown her understanding and compassion for what not just she but also the other person went experienced in that relationship-ending moment, she can now bid farewell. The song "Say Goodbye" and "Goodbye Baby" are facing-each-other album-ending statements. The songs are to put closure, to say goodbye, to who they were and what happened to them, and where they are ultimately. The song plays on the metaphor of an hour glass, where you start in one side and end up in another, which stands for where they started, how it narrowed to crisis with them both coming out on the other side. There are parallel structures in wording throughout the song (e.g., "I who went to sleep as two, woke up as one" and "I who went to sleep in tears, woke up in tears") , mirroring the hour-glass upside-down-duplication of itself through which time slips away. |
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| Neil Young – Helpless Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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If you think about who is "us' and why is "us' helpless in this song, an interpretation might be that is he and his mother, who were left by Neil's father, as he recounts in "Don't Be Denied, "When I was a young boy My Mama said to me Your Daddy's leaving home today I think he's gone to stay." Thus, "us" in "Helpless" is he and his mother. The reason their helpless is that's how it felt when he's a kid without a father and his mother is a wife without a husband. The shadows thrown on their eyes are those thrown by the flight of his father, far above them, gone. So, they packed up all their bags and drove out to Winnipeg, where Neil checked into school, wearing white bucks on his feet, and where he learned the golden rule with punches coming fast and hard, lying on his back in the schoolyard. And yet, today, when in his mind he still needs a place to go, he goes back to the town in north Ontario, where if he goes back just right there's a stream of comfort and memories to spare ,back where all his changes were. |
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| Neil Young – You're My Girl Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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The song is about is daughter, I would say. As Neil Young once sang, "My life's an open book, you read it on the radio." That is, if you want to know the biography, you don't need to go looking far. Neil Young commented that the song "The Painter" from the Prairie Wind album is about his daughter also; and the most striking theme of "Greendale," is of his generation heaing into the sunset while that of his daughter's is breaking into full day. The lyrics to the "Are You Passionate" album as a whole, are, with a couple of exceptions, among the most frank, open, and revelatory that he has ever recorded, as if he wanted at that moment to open up wide the book, ensuring the songs themselves live up to the album's title. |
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| Bob Dylan – Just Like a Woman Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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The lyrics make it sound like it is a song of unrequited love. He was hungry and it was her world. It's clear that he just doesn't fit. I don't know of any other Dylan song like this. I don't know who it could be about. Like many songs by good songwriters, it might be a composite. If it were about Edie Sedgewick, I'd only believe it if it were reported that his love for her was unrequited, which might be the case, although I'm unaware that has been reported to be the character of their relationship (if they had one). |
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| David Ball – 12-12-84 Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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That's kind of a sad song. He made a mistake and he regrets it later. |
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| Dido – Christmas Day Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[Rootiekazootie:32998] I should add, the line "The last words I heard him say were the last words I ever . . . heard him say," if we consider the singer's standing avowal of how happy she is and how much her joy pleases and is supported by those close to her and around her, peforms the magic of making the romance more bright, or darker, depending on the mood of the listener. | |
| Dido – Christmas Day Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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The words could stand on their own as a fine Christmas poem. Dido's voice, in its pauses,inflections, innocence, naivte, in it's winning charm-- shows how much song imparts to verse. The lyric be taken several ways, each as wonderful as the other. Then, if the lyric tells a Christmas story in metaphor of Christianity itself, the song speaks volumes. |
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| Elliott Smith – Pictures of Me Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| I think he is talking about himself looking at pictures. Flicks. He says since flicks are fantasy, the real picture is the picture of him (looking at at his feet). | |
| Bruce Springsteen – My City Of Ruins Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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The "rise up" and "rising" terminology has always seemed odd to me. I was reading an article about Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane and it included the line from Mark, in the KJV: "Rise up, let us go; lo, he that betrayeth me is at hand." To me, that, so to speak, hit the nail on the head. |
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