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| Robert Plant – Big Log Lyrics
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how would you "fuel again" a fire? with a "Big Log". a writer as talented as Plant would of course be aware of the double entendre's involved with such a title. btw, Mark Twain and Nietsche, both with repressive households, were famously surmised to have done some of their best work whilst locked in the crapper... |
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| Harry Nilsson – Coconut Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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you put lime in the coca leaf and stir it up to make coca paste, from which you make cocaine; that being lime as in limestone, not the citrus fruit... |
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| The Beatles – Happiness Is a Warm Gun Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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i think you've got something there, @drgonzothx . length of habit, i'd forgotten that line from "Trainspotting". there was also a '50s movie called "A Hatful Of Rain", where the drug connection was named "Mother". |
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| Steely Dan – Reelin' In The Years Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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i like the father/ daughter angle you came up with, @writer17. "The weekend at the college didn't turn out as planned", parents are known to take their teens to check out, or be interviewed for admission, and maybe she wasn't prepared, or her grade average didn't measure up to her own self-claimed "genius". so maybe then she decided she would be an actress and dad paid for lessons, but when she went to try out Hollywood, not only did she not cut it, she found some dirty old man/"producer" who became her father figure,replacing dear old dad... |
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| Steely Dan – Reelin' In The Years Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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interesting take, @donutbandit! there are a FEW SD songs that aren't obscure (IMO)say,"King Of The World" and "Hey Nineteen", but i hope i find some other takes you have the songs of the Masters Of Mystique". |
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| Steely Dan – Do It Again Lyrics
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i have to agree, IMHO, this song is about reincarnation. each verse seems to talk about about an entity who either "gained" or "lost" during a sojurn on Earth, as Edgar Cayce used to put it. in the first verse, revenge against 'the man who stole your water' seems to me to be some rage carried over from a past life. if a man steals your water, odds are you would die a terrible death! it's not just the lyrics, it's the music too, with the sitar-like drone and primal percussion, feels to me like the endless(?) wheel of Karma. 'the hangman is not hanging' could refer both to the Tarot card and the fact that being hanged doesn't mean the end of the soul, just the need for another vehicle foe the soul. the second verse seems to be about a doomed relationship that will end with somebody getting shot in a hotel room. definitely bad karma there! the third verse, with all its gambling symbols, also feels like a life being wasted in pursuit of gold, but also that each reincarnation is a gamble, a spin of the wheel. unless we can figure a way out, it will be an 'eternal recurrance' as Nietsche put it. quite a mindblowing first AM radio hit for the masters of mystique, Mssrs. Fagen and Becker... |
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