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Calexico – The News About William Lyrics	13 years ago
I always figured that it was about a friend who got into heroin and died.

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The Felice Brothers – Ballad of Lou the Welterweight Lyrics	13 years ago
I thought that the song is not really about doing it doggy-style. I just think it shows us that it's not really good to have sex before a fight. Whatever the song might say about sex - it's still one of the saddest songs I've ever heard and the way it focusses on the moment that Lou is dying is just written in an awesome way. Great lyrics.

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The Felice Brothers – Your Belly In My Arms Lyrics	13 years ago
The song always strikes me as being a reference to Townes' "Snowin on Raton" which says: "Come mornin I'll be through them hills and gone".

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The Felice Brothers – Your Belly In My Arms Lyrics	13 years ago
The song always strikes me as being a reference to Townes' "Snowin on Raton" which says: "Come mornin I'll be through them hills and gone".

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Townes Van Zandt – A Song For Lyrics	15 years ago
I read somewhere that Jeneane found these lyrics in the morning and talked to townes about his "song". And he told her that this actually was a suicide note.

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Townes Van Zandt – Our Mother the Mountain Lyrics	15 years ago
Without thinking much about it I translated the song for my kids who keep on asking what the songs are all about that we listen to in the car. My daughter couldn't get to sleep that night, I felt terrible. Anyways, I always felt that this song is so much E.A. Poe, whatever the symbolims in it might mean.

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