| Counting Crows – Sullivan Street Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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The gut-wrenching emotion of this song would probably still get to me even if it were written in a foreign language. But now that I'm thinking about the lyrics, especially "I'm almost drowning in her seas She's nearly crawling on her knees She's down on her knees" ...it's clear that the key words are "almost" and "nearly." It seems to be about having to end a relationship with someone even though you still sort of love them, because it's not quite everything you need. Then there's no "almost" or "nearly" in the last line "I'm down on my knees"- because even though he wasn't fully into the relationship, he is still fully heartbroken by it ending. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Fire Down Below (Rogue's Gallery) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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You're right that the "Rogue's Gallery" songs are all covers. As with other traditional tunes, the original songwriter for 'Fire Down Below' is likely unknown, the song was recorded only by memory, and there are probably many different variations on the lyrics. While Nick Cave didn't write the lyrics, it's quite possible that he modified/adapted them from whatever version he heard. Following are the liner notes from the Rogue's Gallery CD: "A popular pumping chantey, this was actually the last chantey sung aboard a commercial British square-rigger, by Stan Hugill in 1929, as the barque was pumped out for the last time. There are a number of versions, and in some the 'fire down below' is more explicitly a reference to venereal disease.'" |
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| Joanna Newsom – Bridges and Balloons Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Just now reading "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville and stumbled into this in Chapter 47: The Mat-Maker: "Queequeg and I were mildly employed weaving what is called a sword-mat...As I kept passing and repassing the filling or WOOF of marline between the long yarns of the WARP... that it seemed as if this were the LOOM of Time, and I myself were a shuttle mechanically weaving and weaving away at the Fates." Joanna Newsom "A loom of metal, warp woof wimble" Coincidence? |
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