| Keane – Hamburg Song Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The first time I heard this was during the toughest day of my life. Three hours earlier I watched a friend collapse and die of a sudden heart attack during a softball game. He was only 43 and one of the best athletes on our team. I had his cell phone and knew little about his family. I kept calling numbers until someone answered and I reached his ex wife who then gave me his current wifes number. I called her to the hospital not knowing that he had died yet (they keep tight lips if your not family). When she got there she wanted me and a few others from our team who were there to go in to talk to the doctors. I figured he must still have been alive if they were letting us come back. He then proceeded to tell her he past away due to a massive heart attack. The next 15 minutes I will never forget as she cried and screamed in front of us while we stood there silent. How does this relate to the Hamburg song.? Well after I left the hospital that evening I was emotionally spent and I recalled the keen album was out. I needed some new music to calm me. I ran to Target and found it. I listened to it on the way home and when the Hamburg song came up it was like my friend was speaking from the grave to his wife. I thought the words were so fitting that he was now in a place with this greater awareness and she was still stuck here with the selfishness of her loss and not his gain. That's what anyone would feel I think and not a criticism of her. When we lose someone we greave over our own selfishness of losing/missing that person not realizing they are in a better place. I know that's not was the songwriter wrote about but i was able to gain an entirely different meaning from it. I'll never forgot that day or this song. |
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| Five for Fighting – Policeman's Xmas Party Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I always wanted to know the meaning of this song. It's interesting to hear these references. I had my own interpretation that is completely wrong but it helps me to enjoy the song each time I listen. I imagine the song being written from the perspective of a Police Robot (probably futuristic). Police robots can do many of things in the song like defuse bombs, surveillance. In the future perhaps they can process crime scenes. If you could give them feelings they would be wishing they could go to a Policeman's Christmas Party and get funky on the dance floor. After all they are doing all the work a police officer does. There might even be female robot so the the captain can get funky with her. :-) After reading the lyrics it doesn't quite match up but i still like to stretch it. |
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