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| Loudon Wainwright III – Men Lyrics
| 4 months ago
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This has got to be the best song ever written on this subject. But then again, the same can be said about so many of his songs. |
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| The Roches – Hammond Song Lyrics
| 6 months ago
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How did I miss this band til now? What a beautiful and eerie song this is. As far as the lyrics, I've seen this dynamic happen in my own family when someone moves away. |
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| Kate McGarrigle – Heart Like a Wheel Lyrics
| 6 months ago
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This song is so tragic and honest. The man in the song appears to be the heartbreaker, but as the song says, "the wreck can take a human being and turn him inside out." Some people are damaged or just not ready for true commitment in the moment true love is offered, open-handed. But they are often haunted for life by what they once could not do. |
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| Martha Wainwright – Around the Bend Lyrics
| 6 months ago
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This song speaks for itself. She's assuming a role from a woman most of us would not want to consider. I think it's a hearfelt song for a certain type of disenfranchised. |
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| .38 Special – If I'd Been The One Lyrics
| 6 months ago
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@[Vinecent:53790]
Vincent, you are not alone. It's rare to be heartbroken so deeply for so long, but it happens. It happened to me, after all. Long story, but it feels like it was destined to happen. Either way, here we are. We must go on and try to find happiness, right. Al the best to you |
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| Steely Dan – Any World (That I'm Welcome To) Lyrics
| 8 months ago
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@[Slyfox6651:53597] Thank you for your honesty and willingness to be vulnerable. It's refreshing. I absolutely relate to your words. Children of abuse carry a reality which only other abused souls understand. If the damage were only in childhood, it would be far easier. But the sordid aftermath is even harder because it can take decades to heal from. It has a way of stealing much more than one's childhood. |
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| Bonnie Tyler – Holding Out For A Hero Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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Rubbish. However, it is proof positive of the longstanding pressure imposed upon women to "reach for the impossible super man"...a bloke who simply doesn't exist in the land of the living. The result? Lonely women, lonely men. The song is stinker...a pure, unadulterated pantload. Enjoy! |
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| Joe Jackson – One to One Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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You have the wrong lyrics with the right artist. "One to One" is from his album Beat Crazy. Please fix it. |
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| Joe Jackson – Forty Years Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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As a middle aged American, at a certain level I can only guess. Obviously, it speaks of post-war Europe and the Cold War. The entire song is at once cryptic, wistful, haunting, and daunting.
"They've looked around - and now there is no looking back
to when rivers ran red - now it's the sky that grows black."
What a prescient lyric there. Past, present, and future are all projected.
The thing is, the song came from the album Big World, a genuine masterpiece. This fantastic song is but one song from an album filled with equally fantastic songs. Is it a concept album? It could be. Big World concentrates upon geopolitics, international romance, and all things in-between. If I were to ever write a book about about an album, it would be Big World. It is painfully underrated and underrepresented.
Not to change the subject, but I will say the same about his album Heaven and Hell. |
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| Glen Campbell – Gentle On My Mind Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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Contrary to a number of comments, I don't think the song has anything to do about freedom or the hippie movement of the 1960s. Hartford was inspired by Dr Zhivago, which may be the greatest tragedy ever filmed. This should be clue number one.
To me the song speaks of the bigger than life realities that can ruin love, while the memory of that love does not utterly disappear. Sometimes love can resemble Romeo and Juliet, or like Zhivago, larger forces can forever separate someone from their beloved.
Some 35 years ago as a young man, I myself loved a girl very deeply, but it was a crippling fear of marriage that caused me to destroy it. This is the same girl who had been my muse whilst I had been in a rock band through high school and first year of college.
It took many years for me to understand my fear of marriage and why I would commit love suicide. Likely, it had to do with being taken from my Mother at a young age. Attachment issues, they say. Anyway, unbeknownst to me at the time, the relationship was ultimately doomed from the very beginning. I spent many years accumulating the reality of it all...forgiving myself, others, and destiny itself.
Anyway, like no other, this song speaks loudly to me of the things I have spoken above. Today, I am happily married now to a woman I dearly love. As far as the young woman grown older, I know she is happily married with a family, and I am very happy for that. My only regret is hurting her so badly so long ago, and with no apparent explanation on my part. From time to time, her memory bittersweetly comes up... gentle, or not so gentle on my mind. |
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| Kris Kristofferson – Me and Bobby McGee Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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The song is a snapshot: one is utterly smitten while the other is searching and not finding. Maybe it\'s timing, maybe it\'s one-sided love. Someone\'s haunted; someone else is gone. Both tragic and real. |
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| The Beach Boys – Don't Worry Baby Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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Yes, it\'s a car song, but it\'s deeper. It\'s about courage under fire, and how loving someone deeply really does give that pert courage and hope. It\'s how being loved can bring the best in someone. Besides that, it may be the most beautiful rock song ever recorded. |
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| Fleetwood Mac – Go Your Own Way Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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There is that moment where you just give up. You are left with no choice. It\'s an excruciating, unforgettable moment in time; a great love gone bad... into resigned impossibility. No other song personifies that moment like this song. Lindsay Buckingham knocked this one out of the park. |
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| Eric Clapton – Cocaine Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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@[vinnyfairplay:39296] Meh. Not really. It's not even one time better. It's just different. |
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| Poco – Crazy Love Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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This song is one of the few that drive the heartache of lost love pretty close to where it lives. It's crazy how long some of us can hold on to a memory. Love can be a drug, and when lose it it's hell. There should be support groups. Oh wait, they're down at the bar.... |
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| The Smiths – Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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Given the juxtaposition of lilting music to lyrics (along with Morrissey's reputation as a genius lyricist), I believe this song is about the fact that certain things cannot be helped. Genetics is but one example. The human condition is unfair and always will be. This is why "there is but one concern." We will never be all we wish to be, and we wish for things in others they often cannot fulfill. And between these fantasies, we yearn for love. This song is not comical or scatological. It speaks for a great truth of the human condition. At least I've always thought so. |
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| Steely Dan – Do It Again Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[hubofhip:25138] I think you are dead on. I believe the last verse suggests that a person has to live in integrity to have happiness. |
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| Steely Dan – The Caves of Altamira Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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I think this song a musician's realization that as important as art is, it is still subject to the ravages of time. - "They heard the call and the wrote it on the wall...but you and me we understood."
To express one's art is often imperative; and when others respond positively, one can feel a little immortal. And yet the art is not immortal, and even less so the artist. The artist knows this and wonders how long will he not be forgotten? How long will his art outlive him, or will it even do that? |
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| The Smiths – Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I think this song has very deep meaning, and I cannot believe that a good portion of you think it is about breast or penis size, exclusively. Those things may or may not have something to do with it, but I believe the most significant meaning of the song comes from the line:
"Some girls' mothers are bigger than other girls' mothers."
It is a statement of the unfairness of life. Our lot in life is somewhat determined by our genetic code, and our social class. Sure, we can exert great effort to out-do what we were given by our parents by virtue of our birth, but certain aspects of ourselves cannot be changed. We are simply stuck with them, or our lives are in part defined by our trying, often in vein, to surpass them.
It would be quite poetic if Moz wrote this song after a sexual attempt with a woman, and found that they were incompatable anatomically. That is what is great about Moz's lyrics. They are so hollow that we can put our own perspective and experience into them and they mean so many different things. It is the mark of a true lyrical genius. Certainly the best since Dylan. But truely, I believe that Moz had a broader, larger meaning in mind. I personally hold that his point was more along the lines of what I just mentioned. It is a sad song, just like Marr's guitar created it to be. If the lyrics really are talking about such a universally applicable subject, then Marr's incredible guitar line is only bettered by them, and not "ruined," or some such rot. The Smiths were genuises. In my opinion, their breaking up was the biggest disappointment and loss in recorded musical history. |
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