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| City and Colour – Sleeping Sickness Lyrics
| 3 months ago
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Dallas is masterful at conveying his emotions through his songs. Anyone with a soul can relate because we've all felt these feelings. The Gord element takes it over the edge, especially since his passing. |
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| Rilo Kiley – It's a Hit Lyrics
| 10 months ago
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Hahaha. I'm reading the comments. I guess Dubya had a small group of cultists who assumed this was about him, so they came here specifically to trash the song. This is a perfectly solid tune that I just heard for the first time today when my brother texted me the link. The lyrics are clever and there is absolutely no reason to hate on it UNLESS you suffer from snowflakism and were triggered. Imagine if this song came out today and was about Trump. Our entire country would immediately be smeared with the feces of MAGA's army of insufferable maniacs |
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| Rilo Kiley – It's a Hit Lyrics
| 10 months ago
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Hahaha. I'm reading the comments. I guess Dubya had a small group of cultists who assumed this was about him, so they came here specifically to trash the song. This is a perfectly solid tune that I just heard for the first time today when my brother texted me the link. The lyrics are clever and there is absolutely no reason to hate on it UNLESS you suffer from snowflakism and were triggered. Imagine if this song came out today and was about Trump. Our entire country would immediately be smeared with the feces of MAGA's army of insufferable maniacs. |
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| Judy Collins – Houses Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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"Houses" is about Stephen Stills. It came six years after Stephen's "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," which was about his relationship with Collins. |
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| Elton John – Texan Love Song Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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I've known this song ever since I bought the CD when I was in college in the 80s. But I never absorbed the lyrics like I did just now. And it struck me how nothing has changed in America. Bernie's lyrics work perfectly in 2022, just as they did 50 years ago. Racism, homophobia, flat out out bigotry, all based on irrational anger disguised as Archie Bunker-style "patriotism." Fat Clown was fond of playing songs from Madman Across the Water at his hate rallies and, most appropriately, when he spoke overseas. But he should have played this song when he visted Texas. I swear that sweaty mofo was trolling everybody all time. This would have been the perfect ironic song to warm up his crowd of poorly educated suckers. |
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| Elton John – Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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According to Saturday Night Live legend, when Elton was the host in 2011, Colin Jost wrote a sketch where instead of Weird Al, Elton would be "Weird El" and perform parodies of his songs. At the table read, one of the suggestions was "Don\'t Let Your Son Go Down On Me." Elton did find that title mildly amusing but he didn\'t like the other song parody suggestions and kept saying "this isn\'t funny," to the majority of the ideas and the sketch went into the trash. Seth Meyers backed this up by saying Elton was very hard to please. Too bad. That sounds pretty great to me. |
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| Elton John – High Flying Bird Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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This song evokes similar imagery as "She Talks to Angels" by the Black Crowes, 17 years later. Perhaps the girl who talked to angels was the daughter of the high flying bird. In fact, I think she was born in this song\'s dressing room. :) |
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| Neil Young – T-Bone Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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I remember listening to this on my Walkman at age 16 for the first time circa 1986 while in the backseat on a trip to Las Vegas. I thought it was the most ridiculous thing I'd ever heard. |
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| Neil Young – Birds Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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@[hannah50:37053] I will think about what you typed whenever I hear this song now. And I will probably cry, just like I am doing now. |
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| The Tragically Hip – Springtime In Vienna Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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All I know is that this is one of their best songs. The lyrics are vague and perfect and it builds from gentle sleigh bells to a wall of guitars, mellows back down and then shreds to the finish line as the drums thump away. |
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| The Tragically Hip – An Inch An Hour Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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I know this much, these lyrics....
"but i'm helpless more with the people
than the space
I mean I'm helpless less with the people
than the space
You see, I don't know Neil
I don't know Neil"
...must be an answer to Neil Young's song Helpless (from Deja Vu by CSN&Y.) Gord & The Hip are talking about helplessness in response to Neil's helplessness in a town in North Ontario. |
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| The Tragically Hip – Inevitability Of Death Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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According to Leslie Mckay, "Terry" was the name of a lung donor. Her father, Bill McKay, was the recipient of those lungs and was close with Gord and his wife Laura. Bill traveled with the band, and according to his daughter, was practically an honourary member. Sadly, he passed away in 1993. His funeral is believed to be the inspiration for Greasy Jungle.
http://www.hipmuseum.com/iod.html |
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| Gram Parsons – Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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As a prelude to the performance of "Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man" at the Woodstock Music Festival in 1969, Jeffrey Shurtleff, accompanied by Joan Baez, spoke at length about the draft resistance movement(*see below) in the United States and dedicated the song to the Governor of California, Ronald Reagan (a stout supporter of the Vietnam War) referring to Mr. Reagan as "Ronald Ray-Gun ... Zap!” With his tongue-in-cheek dedication, Shurtleff set the stage for comparisons to follow. The character in the song "don't like resistance I know/And he said it last night on a big TV show./He's got him a medal that he won in the war/Weighs five hundred pounds and it sleeps by the door." Clearly, the conflict that existed was between the government and the people, between the draft resistance movement and the politicians, between the draft resister and Ronald Reagan. (http://home.comcast.net/~dongillette/contemp.html)
"Hello to all friends of the draft resistance revolution in America. Good evening, I hope it stops raining. One thing about the draft resistance that's different from other movements and revolutions in this country is that we have enemies. It's one of the beautiful about it. To show that our hearts are in the right place, I'll sing a song for the Governor of California, Ronald Ray-Gun...Zap!"
http://home.comcast.net/~dongillette/contemp.html
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| Badfinger – Name Of The Game Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This is really a great song that should be more widely known.
It starts with the famous rock star having a conversation with a common working man, showing the contrast as to how their actions are looked upon by society. The worker doesn't benefit from going out on a limb to express himself by standing up to "the man" like someone in the performing arts would. He keeps his feelings and views to himself, as he will only do himself harm should he buck the system while doing his job. The rocker, on the other hand, is free to express himself however he sees fit to the adoration of his fans. But this doesn't seem right. Shouldn't we all be free to express ourselves? Would we not have a better world if we took the time to understand one another instead of bottling up our frustrations?
The second verse is a lament about the condition of the modern world, which questions the intelligence of propagating our species in light of our sinful nature and our failures. We are not only destroying the planet, we haven't learned to live peacefully amongst ourselves... yet it doesn't stop us from introducing new humans into this heartless, painful world every second of every day. Perhaps we should fix what humanity has destroyed before making it worse by mindless reproduction.
Finally, it ends with the rock star looking up at another star, the sun. In an attempt to receive forgiveness for the problems expressed in the earlier verse, he confesses to the heavens that any victories won on any battlefield haven't solved anything - they've only scorched the earth. He feels insignificant, powerless and small compared to the master of the solar system - so really, what's the point of it all? The game of life is a paradox. We want to live, to speak our minds, to have others understand and agree with us. But ultimately each one of us, no matter what we've accomplished or solved, will encounter the great leveler of death. Every one of us, good or bad in life, will decompose is the same manner, succumbing to Mother Nature. And this my friends, is the name of the game.
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| Bush – Glycerine Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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As another user pointed out, Gavin went through a homosexual period earlier in his life and this song is about a relationship he had during that time. Glycerine is often used as a personal lubricant and its sweet flavour provides an added bonus to those who enjoy the sublime act of analingus. In an old interview I saw on me telly back when I lived in London in the '90s, Gavin explained the song in great detail and mentioned these details. While Gavin is now in a committed heterosexual relationship, he certainly looks fondly upon the good old days and this song brings back delightful memories for him. |
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