| The Killers – Runaways Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| The title lyric is actually "Ain't we all just runaways?" in the first verse and at start of each chorus. The night gets "wild," not wide. "Brandon Flowers | |
| Fleetwood Mac – Landslide Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think the notion that this song was written for Stevie's dad mainly comes from the version on The Dance; she dedicated it to him at that concert. At a show in Reading, PA in 2008, she said it was written when she was "trying to figure out what to do, whether I was going to try to continue on with Lindsey, or whether I was going to move to Aspen...I was young. I didn't really exactly know what my destiny was going to be at that point, and that's when I wrote this song. However, my whole life my father thought this song was about him, and certainly, who I am to tell him it wasn't?" She has frequently dedicated the song to someone when singing it live. Often the audience, other times a specific person (including her father, Buckingham, and Alicia Keys). She has explained what this song is about dozens of times. After their pre-Fleetwood Mac band 'Buckingham Nicks' flopped with its first album and was dropped by the record label, she and Lindsey Buckingham were fighting a lot. When she was visiting Aspen, CO, she was looking out at the mountains, and it occurred to her that her current situation was much like a landslide. Suddenly everything was coming down around her. In her own words, she was "pondering the avalanche of everything that had come crashing down on us...at that moment, my life truly felt like a landslide in many ways." That quote also goes to show swagv's assertion above that Nicks was ignorant of the word 'avalanche' and that 'landslide' doesn't work in the song is rather disposable. Also, the "reflection in the snow-covered hills" works as well, because it is - surprise - metaphorical, not literal. She's looking at a snow-covered mountain where an avalanche could happen at any moment. 'Reflection' isn't always a literal mirror image; it can be a representation. The lines about 'the child in my heart' are about a child's naivety and innocence. Unjaded by the more complex emotions that develop later in life, young children can move on quickly from setbacks. In the refrain, she brings up the dichotomy of growing up - "time makes you bolder / even children get older / I'm getting older too." While she might not be able to handle the changes with a child's innocence, time has made her bolder and she's going to try to move on anyway. Concerning other versions, I'm not sure why anyone would want to listen to a recording of this song without Buckingham's smooth electric guitar solo. I say that tongue-in-cheek, but I really do love his tone on the original album, and miss it when he plays it on an acoustic all by himself. I'm not sure he ever played the solo on an electric after the original record; live then, Christine McVie played it on an electric piano. |
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| The Brian Jonestown Massacre – (David Bowie I Love You) Since I Was Six Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The first two lines of verse are even phrased the same way. Try singing "Ground Control to Major Tom" instead of "Does she love you, you suppose." Love this song, so hypnotic. |
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