| Tom Waits – Falling Down Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think the tearing down of the hotel is literal. Waits and many other artists occupied the Tropicana Motor Hotel in West Hollywood that was later torn down in the 1980's. "If you live in Los Angeles things change so rapidly. Places that you used to go, if you leave town for 2 or 3 months, chances are they'll tear down the gas station or the donut shop or the cleaners where you go. The hotel is gone so I guess it kind of stimulates your imagination about it once you tear down the place where it all happened. The stories get taller as the building gets shorter." |
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| John Cale – Guts Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"Embarrasing denouement, ne c'est pas?" I believe means "Embarrassing result, is it not?" In context of the verse it makes sense as being embarrassed by the hyperbolic nature of someone familiar fucking his wife and not a complete unknown stranger. |
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