| Joni Mitchell – Rainy Night House Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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Joni Mitchell had a short relationship with Leonard Cohen, who was a bit older and a little more worldly than her. I'm not sure why the relationship ended, but I can imagine that after a while the novelty of Joni had worn off, just like it would with the other women in his life. When the muse-factor fades, time to move on. Joni wrote this song as a subtle put-down -- "You are a refugee from a wealthy family' -- I don't think Cohen could ever have identified with what Joni had gone through in her life, struggling with poverty, having to give up a baby for adoption. Cohen was the "holy man on the FM radio" -- yes, there were many people at the time who worshipped at the altar of Leonard Cohen, like he was some kind of prophet. And the fact that Joni keeps mentioning his mother -- "we took a taxi to your mother's home" -- "She went to Florida..." and "You called your mother she was very tanned" -- was her way of calling him a mama's boy. "...she left you with your father's gun alone..." -- could that mean Leonard had suicidal or depressive tendencies? Perhaps You can probably tell that I don't think much of Leonard Cohen... don't like the way he patronized women, honestly just an overrated douchebag. . |
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| Gogol Bordello – Zina-Marina Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| They need to write a song about Russian mail-order brides. I know a number of sexist pig American men who, after being dumped by their American wives, got themselves Russian mail-order brides. One was the ex- of a good friend of mine (thinking that she wanted to find a new husband, he suggested that she read a book called "The Subservient Wife"). | |
| Gogol Bordello – We Comin' Rougher (Immigraniada) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This could be a true asylum-seekers anthem. All of those damn anti-immigrant, anti- "illegal alien" conservatives have no clue as to why some of these people are here and what they have gone through. If they even has a tiny glimpse of the hardships they have gone through, they would open up their so-called "Christian" hearts and make room for them, at least room for them to take the crappy, minimum-wage jobs no normal native-born American would want. |
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