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| Genesis – Say It's Alright Joe Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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This song is the story of Sydney who is the second cousin of Albert Duke (Duke's Travels).
And he likes to have a drink or two or ten. And every lunch time & evening, Sydney would go down to the bar & sit at a stool at the bar. He would listen to Joe who played the piano there.
So this is about Sydney - the pathetic drunk - who listens to Joe playing the piano at some seedy, dark bar somewhere in downtown London.... |
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| Genesis – Say It's Alright Joe Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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This song is the story of Sydney who is the second cousin of Albert Duke (Duke's Travels).
And he liked to have a drink or two or ten. And every lunch time & evening, Sydney would go down to the bar & sit at a stool at the bar. He would listen to Joe who played the piano there.
So this is about Sydney - the pathetic drunk - who listens to Joe playing the piano at some seedy, dark bar somewhere in downtown London.... |
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| The English Beat – Ackee 1-2-3 Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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does anybody know why they dont sing this song at their concerts? is it a copyright thing - david wakeling unable to sing it?
what a shame |
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| The English Beat – Stand Down Margaret Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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the 70's and 80's were a messed up time in the UK. Then came along Margaret Thatcher- she was a fake. Tried to act all uppity but really wasn't. And she made all of England competive vs neighbors. So stand down Margaret means to resign. It also means to stop acting like a fake and get off your high horse. |
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| The English Beat – I Confess Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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this song is about a typical 'love triangle' where he busts in maybe on his friend's relationship with his girl friend and screws it all up. so yea "I CONFESS I RUINED THREE LIVES" his, the girls and his friends. so then he has extreme guilt and sorrow for the situation he created |
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| The English Beat – Ackee 1-2-3 Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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yea the Ackee is a fruit - brought over from Africa to the Caribean Islands during slave trading. It is actually a very popular (if not the island fruit) of Hatii, Jamacia, Barbados, etc.
The song seems to obviously have that Ska / Ragae beat to is from the Caribbean culture. I'm not sure why they would say "ackee 1 2 3" - could be a cultural thing down there.
I'll try to find out when I go see the beat in a couple days |
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| INXS – Suicide Blonde Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I was a technician for INXS back in the 80's. This song is about Huchence girlfriend who was acting in a movie and needed to dye her hair blond. She made the comment that "they want to make me a suicide blond" so he took those lines and created the hit. Too bad he died soon after.... |
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| Grateful Dead – Casey Jones Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Casey Jones was the one of the worlds most famous train engineers. He ran the CannonBall Route between Chicagp and Memphis. Way back in 1900, a fellow engineer called out sick. Casey took the route but now was nearly 1hr 45 minutes behind. As we all know, being late is not good in railroad life. So Casey, being the best there is, ran the route going at times over 100MPH and averaging close to 65MPH over a very dangerous curvey run. He was close to schedule at his 2nd to last stop and departed for the final leg. Unbeknown to him and his crew, another train heading towards him was having problems. Trains travel both ways on the tracks and the train headin South has precedence over the train heading North. The NorthBound train must go into an adjacent track while the other train passes. Unfortunately the other train (train hundred and two) didnt get off the main track so Casey's train whammed into it. Casey Jones died at the crash. He was never on cocaine during his last run - those lines were just added by the Dead.
Driving that train - refers to casey jones the famous conductor in 1900
high on cocaine - not true but it can refer to going fast like a cannonball
casey jones you better watch your speed - he dude love to push the trains to their limit & he was the best there was
lady in red - the caboose of the other train he smashed to pieces
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