| The Smiths – Half a Person Lyrics | 3 months ago |
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The line "I booked myself into the YWCA" comes from the book Pat Phoenix - All My Burning Bridges. As found by Barry Clavin. |
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| Inspiral Carpets – This Is How It Feels Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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Here’s what he wrote in The Guardian in March 2023. I wrote a kitchen-sink drama in which my emotions could play out in a fictitious world. I pictured a working-class family: in the first verse, the mother is depressed but no one knows why; in the second, it becomes apparent there’s been a suicide. The guy that’s just died has been having an affair with the woman from verse one. It goes: “She can’t say, they can’t see, putting it down to another bad day.” She can’t tell anyone why she’s so upset. So within the song you’ve got infidelity, deceit, mental health, suicide and loneliness. On the single version, I changed a couple of lines to make it less graphic. “It seems they found him under a train” became “He left a note for a local girl”. |
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| The Smiths – Paint a Vulgar Picture Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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You can find a bit more context in the demo versions of this song, which included some extra lyrics. "At the record company party, on their hands at last! a dead star. Double-pack with a photograph, extra track and a tacky badge. And they paint a vulgar picture of the way they say that you were but they can never really hurt you my darling, they can never touch you now". And there was another verse that ultimately made way for the guitar solo. "Anecdotes and stories / "Oh yes we were so close you know" / So why did the body lie for seven days / before someone passed his way?" And here's what Morrissey said about it in 1988. "No, it wasn't about Rough Trade at all. So I was a bit confused when Geoff Travis, the Rough Trade big boy, despised it and stamped on it. It was about the music industry in general, about practically anybody who's died and left behind that frenetic fanatical legacy which sends people scrambling. Billy Fury, Marc Bolan..." |
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| The Beatles – Blackbird Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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Here's verbatim what he said on 'Paul McCartney Breaks Down His Most Iconic Songs | GQ'. I recall once seeing a post here about the meaning of the term 'blackbird' and thought it was a laughable misinterpretation, but It turns out it's exactly what Paul meant. Anyway... "I was sitting around my acoustic guitar and I'd heard about the civil rights troubles that were happening in the 60s in Alabama Mississippi, Little Rock in particular so that was in my mind and I just thought it'd be really good if I could write something that if it ever reached any of the people going through those problems it might kind of give them a little bit of hope so I wrote Blackbird. And in England a bird is a girl so I was thinking a black girl going through this, you know, now's your time to arise, you you, set yourself free and take these broken wings." |
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