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| The Beatles – I Am the Walrus Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Pure psychedelic lyrics but it HAS to be a meaning, whatever it is. I don't know which way to search. Maybe the exquisite corpse technique. I can see meanings on this song. |
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| Wings – Live and Let Die Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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It's about a guy who wore long hair and round glasses.
As true as peace and understanding won't hide in a piece of paper, you can stop the band and let me depressed, now I don't care. |
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| The Kinks – You Really Got Me Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I think the meaning of the song is the fellow is high on French Blues and tomorrow the girl will be so pregnant that he really won't be able to sleep at night and the girl will really get him and never set him free. |
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| The Kinks – Mr. Pleasant Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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The black girl in the advertisement for Could I Have Lupus? is horrible. She's looking at me and frightens me. |
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| The Pogues – London Girl Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This song means to me poetic romance from the pub's urinal at the cold white hours. I haven't slept for 24 hours and I'm alone dancing nude on my bed listening to this tune.
The sun was splashing in a crystal fountain, I'm dying! |
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| The Rolling Stones – Rip This Joint Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I don't know what they meant to say when they wrote the lines. What I know is that they were annoyed with the lyrics, they only had the music. So they decided to mix and twist sentences and words like a William Burroughs cut up to finish quickly and release the disc at last. |
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| The Velvet Underground – Lady Godiva's Operation Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I subscribe the view that it's about a sex change operation that turned bad. Sounds pretty obvious I find. An operation for a drag queen they knew, it's coherent with Lou Reed at this time, all songs from Transformer are about someone from the Factory.
Lady Godiva is a good name for a drag queen because the real Godiva was a female activist. She passed through the streets of Coventry naked on a horse to convince her husband to decrease taxes. In a way, we can call drag queens "female activists."
There's a sexual perversion based on Godiva: the fantasy of naked women on horses. |
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| Peter Doherty – Salome Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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The song refers to Oscar Wilde who wrote a play about Salome. Doherty is a massive admirer of Wilde. The atmosphere in the song also recalls the paintings from Gustave Moreau, they both are major figures of european Art of the XIXth century, a romantic period in many ways.
Salome's story is part of an episode of Matthew and Marc's gospel. She was Herodiade's daughter, who did marry King Herode. Salome was divine and she was able to obtain everything in the world by her charms and the grace of her dancing skills. Once she was dancing for Herode Antipas, he fell in love and asked her what he could give, she turned to her mother and Herodiade said "the head of John the Baptist." Herode gave it to Salome on a plate, and she gave it to her mother.
In the song, Doherty mentions Isadora Duncan who was probably the greatest dancer of all times. She could have been a rival for Salome.
With a legend like that, it's easy to rely with the pain a man can have with girls. At the end of the song, Pete adds "as she dances and demands the head of any bastard on a plate." Pete is the bastard in question. He's hypnotized and consents to give his own head. Salome is Kate Moss or whoever you want. |
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| The Libertines – Time For Heroes Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I think the song is about the May Day riots but ArcadianDream gives an interesting reading with football and Queens Park. All his arguments are working. Could be a double sense. |
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