| The Doobie Brothers – Long Train Runnin' Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| @[docholiday767:26456] this song is about Miss Lucy being found dead along the tracks. Suicide. Miss loose , as he says. Lost her family, won't be coming back . Permanently. | |
| The Doobie Brothers – Long Train Runnin' Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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@[Hipnoticed:26455] you miss the fact that train tracks are a common suicide method. This song touches on themes of mortality . 'Watch them disappear' is evocative of someone passing, as is 'she won't be coming back'. Miss Lucy was found 'down along the tracks'. why? Because she lost her home and her family. It is pronounced as 'Miss Loose'. Evocative of a woman who cheated on her husband and lost everything as a result.. Then ended it all. Because there was no forgiveness. |
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| The Doobie Brothers – Long Train Runnin' Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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@[Hipnoticed:26454] you miss the fact that train tracks are a common suicide method. This song touches on themes of mortality . 'Watch them disappear' is evocative of someone passing, as is 'she won't become back'. Miss Lucy was found 'down along the tracks'. why? Because she lost her home and her family. It is pronounced as 'Miss Loose'. Evocative of a woman who cheated on her husband and lost everything as a result.. Then ended it all. Because there was no forgiveness. |
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| The Doobie Brothers – Long Train Runnin' Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| @[Hipnoticed:26452] I love your observation of how the 'loooo-oooo-oooove' stanza mimics the blare of a train horn. Its a warning. Don't forget to love. | |
| The Doobie Brothers – Long Train Runnin' Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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@[buffalotice:26451] You know I saw miss Lucy down along the tracks She lost her home and her family and she won't be coming back I think Miss Lucy committed suicide on the tracks. "She won't be coming back" is cryptic , and it is not about leaving town . Its about checking out permanently. Leaving town is no guarantee of not coming back . Suicide was the guarantee of 'won't be coming back'. The song is about trying to save people with love and forgiveness before it is too late. Like it was for Miss Lucy . Because no one helped her, no one loved her enough to save her. the line 'watch them disappear' is foreshadowing to death. The whole song is cryptic , its about doom and damnation and forgiveness. |
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| Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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the song Smells Like Teen Spirit was about having to entertain people who didn't deserve to be entertained. The line "Here we are now, entertain us!" is a mocking or mimicking of what the usual crowd or audience demands, to be entertained.It makes the singer feel stupid and contagious to be put under the spotlight with such high expectations. The popular music crowd was also into interracial sex and black music (ie: hiphop, rap, r&b) and black musicians, so the line "a mulatto!" is a comment on the preference and popular demand for black music and interracial sex among the party girls , again mocking or mimicking their demands by shoving the product of interracial sex in their faces (A mulatto!) "An albino!" (wanting a mulatto baby is like wanting an albino baby) "A mosquito, my libido! Yay!" Basically saying that all the white girls are getting knocked up pregnant by black guys, and that his libido is considered to be a mosquito, something to be eradicated . A mosquito attempts penetration and then gets slapped and squashed before it can penetrate. Like the white male libido, white culture. Yay! is sarcastic, as though he's really happy about it, ("it's fun to lose and to pretend" is also sarcastic. If you put the two lines together it makes sense. "She's over-bored and self-assured" , means oversexed , she's over sexed, over bored means she's bored out, loose and hollow from too much sex. "Oh no, I know , a dirty word." (he's just called a woman over-bored , which is like calling her a whore, a dirty word) "Hello hello hello, how low?" How low does he have to go to please the audience? "With the lights out , its less dangerous" If he has to go all the way for them and strip his soul naked in order to please them, it would be less dangerous to do all that with the lights out. The crowd answers that with "Here we are now, entertain us!" (the crowd is excited at the thought of humiliating him) He answers them in protest with, "I feel stupid, and contagious!" but again the crowd replies with "here we are now , entertain us!" "I found it hard, so ha-ard to find the will, whatever, never mind" (double meaning, I found it hard , seems like he is talking about getting an erection, but then changes it to "so hard to find the will, whatever , never mind" Means that he is not aroused at the idea of having to strip himself bare emotionally or physically for the audience, cannot will himself to do it. "Whatever, never mind" means he's reached the limits of how far he's willing to go, or what he's willing to say or reveal about himself. Like saying "mind your own business you creeps, you don't deserve all this" The end of the song, the finale, is "A mosquito , my libido?" which the crowd answers with the demand for " A denial! A denial! A denial! A denial! A denial! A denial! A denial! A denial! A deniaaaaaaal!" The world demands that the truth be suppressed and denied |
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