| Ray LaMontagne – For The Summer Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Perhaps he wrote it while on the road touring and wishing he could get off the treadmill with his sweetheart. I spent five years working long distances from home and sometimes could only get home once every couple of weeks if I was lucky. This song reminds me of how I felt in those days, wishing I could make it all stop, just for a little while, and be home with my sweetheart. I wouldn't be able to stay because I'd have to get back out there, but oh, it would be nice to have that summertime feeling of endless days, just for a little while. When Ray sings the line "get back to loving each other," it sounds like "get back to love and each other," which provides multiple levels of meaning. He may have written it the first way, but I prefer the second. :-) And all this goes to show what happens when a song, or poem, or story, or whatever gets out into the hands of listeners and readers: it takes on many new lives. I often wonder what the writers of these songs would think if they every drop in on these threads. Thanks, Ray! |
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| Patti Smith – Dancing Barefoot Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Seems to me the lyric is not "heroin/e" but "heroine," as in "a female hero." Does anyone here know how Patti actually wrote that line? |
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| Patti Smith – Gloria Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Patti's Roman Catholicism comes through loud and clear here. Part of the traditional mass is the "gloria in excelsis" and Patti brilliantly sandwiches "Gloria" between her own theological take on salvation. God, I love Patti Smith. | |
| Prince – Let's Go Crazy Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Oh, for heaven's sake. The lyrics as written here are virtually identical to the way they appear on the lyric sheet of Prince's "Purple Rain" CD. The next time you criticize someone for being "lazy," remember how silly you looked when you didn't make even the mildest effort to know what you were talking about first. |
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