| Bob Dylan – Sara Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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DYLAN BIO FANS, am I correct? "I can still hear the sounds Of those Methodist bells I'd taken the cure And had just gotten through Stayin' up for days In the Chelsea Hotel": Sounds like he had come off of methadone. |
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| Peter Gabriel – Red Rain Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| p.s. "Check Wikipedia Red Rain (song)" for solid insight; and yes, see him do it w/ Michael Stipe and Natalie Merchant on YouTube! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2cdP14Idyw Wow. | |
| Peter Gabriel – Red Rain Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Given the comments below and my feelings--this song haunts me beautifully--this song sure touches lots of us. It's meaning? First, from Jungian psychology: Like lots of great songs, such as Dylan's, the meaning is enigmatic, yet it somehow makes sense to a deep part of the psyche. Though I, too, read in an interview with Gabriel that this song is based on a dream he had--he just put his dream into music--that does not contradict what it means to each of us. We project the unconscious parts of our psyches onto it, as with Dylan songs--and, many of us share similar unconscious minds. There is, in addition to a great collective unconscious mind, there are many, many lesser collective unconscious minds where it resonates. That's the Jungian trip. And who knows? Gabriel may be giving us just a piece by saying that it's from a dream of his. Like Dylan, he may conceal the truth. He's a guy that dressed up like a flower in Genesis some, and he's very, very bright. I wish I knew THE meaning; all we know is it touches us deeply enough to be on this site. Really something, ain't it? cheers |
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| Mark Knopfler – Boom, Like That Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Funny how when ya first hear this song and don't know the lyrics, as it's strutting and the guitar moans and cries, you get a totally different idea than the reality that the lyrics show. It is clearly related to McDonald's. When I first heard it, with Brit accent, it sounded like the refrain went, "Rock star" instead of "Kroc style." You, too? |
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| Bob Dylan – I and I Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Like many Dylan songs, this song is like a dream: it goes back and forth from the biblical imagery to him with this woman, to the train platform. After Dylan scrawled out one song, Baez says on film, they laughed how one day, people would be arguing over the meaning of the song. As cited above, Len Cohen said Dylan told him he wrote "I & I" in 15 minutes. You who are looking deeply and/or literally, remember: Though he once contradicted this in an interview, it seems that Dylan wrote largely from the unconscious part of his psyche, the part that dreams and free-associates: maybe you've been up all night, you've been real high for days, and you put out whatever comes to mind that sounds cool. There may be some kind of synchronistic intelligence of the universe at play, whereby it indeed means many things; but it's accidental, like how John Lennon said he didn't consciously intend for the initials "Lucy in Sky with Diamonds" to spell out LSD. A gorgeous song like this one is impressionistic and it connects with something deep inside of many of us, including me! Why is that, I wonder? It's powerful; and yet this song is known by so few of us. |
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| Neil Young – Don't Let It Bring You Down Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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willsall88, just above, is on the right track to me: you who are looking deeply and/or literally, remember: Neil and comrades wrote largely from the unconscious parts of their psyche, the part that dreams and free-associates: maybe you've been up all night, you've been real high for days, and you put out whatever comes to mind that sounds cool. i.e. After Dylan scrawled out one song, Baez says on film, they laughed how one day, people would be arguing over the meaning of the song. Dylan wrote "I & I" in 20 minutes. Lennon, interviewed before his death in the film "Imagine," says he wrote "Lucy in Sky with Diamonds" after young Julian brought home a picture he'd made at school and daddy when asked what it was, responded that it was "Lucy in Sky with Diamonds;" John loved the image; he said that everyone assumed it was about LSD, but he hadn't even considered what the initials meant. It's like the "Paul is dead" fiasco...There may be some kind of synchronistic intelligence of the universe at play, whereby it indeed was no accident that it spelled out LSD; but John didn't consciously intend that. Likewise,Neil? There are often similar themes in much of his music--old men, lonliness; longing for home, freedom and love; feeling on the outs while seeing what the average guy misses, etc. Clearly a song like Ohio is consciously intended. But a gorgeous song like this one is impressionistic, like his movie, "Journey through the Past." It connects with something deep inside of many of us! And that's all. One of us wrote that Young said in an interview that it was a protest son--where and when? Even if he did, it may have been in the goofing spirit that Neil's buddies the Dead often used. Interviewed by out-of-touch guys constantly, and stoned, you may get so that you tell folks whatever they seem to be wanting to hear: "Is it a protest song?" "yes!" Bob Weir once told a reporter that he wore a surgical mask whenever he saw his parents to convince them that he was in medical school, and in the Dead Movie, you see them put on interviewers. But only one person really knows the truth about this beloved song! |
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