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| Blur – Sweet Song Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Not meaning related, but a great (possibly unintentional) shout out to The Beatles by referencing Here Comes The Sun and then immediately following it with the main refrain of John Lennon's Jealous Guy ("I didn't mean to hurt you") |
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| The Kinks – Mr. Churchill Says Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Well, yes, they staved off the Nazis and it was a huge achievement. But all the garden gates and empty cans didn't actually make the British Empire "a better place for me and you". |
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| The Kinks – Mr. Churchill Says Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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there's more than a little bit of sarcasm in it... it's more addressing of Arthur's general theme of youthful idealism and naivete being exploited by the aristocrats and the bureaucrats). The lyric "And all the garden gates and empty cans are gonna make us win" illustrates this the best, I think... these are just people pleasing soundbites to get everyone behind the war effort, a series of empty promises that the British Empire will be a better place for everyone after the war when in reality all of the effort and sacrifice led to absolutely nothing. |
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| The Kinks – Some Mother's Son Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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The song's meaning should be pretty obvious from the lyrics... but for context's sake, it's about the death of Arthur's (the album's protagonist) son dying in the Korean War. |
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| The Kinks – Some Mother's Son Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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The song's meaning should be pretty obvious from the lyrics... but for context's sake, it's about the death of Arthur's (the album's protagonist) son dying in the Korean War. |
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| The Kinks – Victoria Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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The song is certainly sarcastic and it serves its point within the Arthur narrative as such. However, it's also easily the most self contained song on the album... it doesn't mesh with the story's timeframe (it's set some 60 years after Victoria's death and deals with a man in his 50s) and while the first two verses mesh with the albums overall theme, they have almost nothing to do with the actual plot. The last verse is a bit more complicated... Ray Davies is an old Tory at heart, his love for Victorian and Edwardian Britain knows no bounds and has been demonstrated in song on many, many occasions. It's easy to read it as both a lead in to the next two (decidedly anti-war, anti-military) songs and as a statement of Davies' personal feelings. |
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