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| Bruce Hornsby – Across the River Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I think Jakkijelene got some of the meaning, but I believe it's even deeper and - at the same time - less specific. The girl's longing and dream is not necessarily Hollywood, but likely something she perceives as better, higher, more worthwhile, and certainly not just making (more) money. The narrator observes that she came back 35 weeks ago, nearly the term of a pregnancy, perhaps intimating that she went away with high hopes, got taken advantage of, got pregnant, and had to come home without achieving whatever it was she left for. The idle talk of those who observed that she's come back with her tail between her legs, "like they always said she would" speaks to the small minds, mean spirits, and petty jealousies of those who don't want someone they perceive as thinking they're "better than we are" bettering themselves. Bruce's observation and response is one of faith and assurance to the girl, and to himself, that "Some Fine Day" both of them can make it to success and escape from the morass of negativity and small mindedness that tends to suck them down. |
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| Bruce Hornsby – Across the River Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I think Jakkijelene got some of the meaning, but I believe it's even deeper and - at the same time - less specific. The girl's longing and dream is not necessarily Hollywood, but likely something she perceives as better, higher, more worthwhile, and certainly not just making (more) money. The narrator observes that she came back 35 weeks ago, nearly the term of a pregnancy, perhaps intimating that she went away with high hopes, got taken advantage of, got pregnant, and had to come home without achieving whatever it was she left for. The idle talk of those who observed that she's come back with her tail between her legs, "like they always said she would" speaks to the small minds, mean spirits, and petty jealousies of those who don't want someone they perceive as thinking they're "better than we are" bettering themselves. Bruce's observation and response is one of faith and assurance to the girl, and to himself, that "Some Fine Day" both of them can make it to success and escape from the morass of negativity and small mindedness that tends to suck them down. |
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| Bruce Hornsby – A Night on the Town Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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A totally fascinating song for me, given my background as an Army brat periodically dropping-in (between moves across country and overseas) to my beloved red dirt, piney-woods, north Louisiana friends and relatives, a sufficient number of which fit the stereotype of "red-neck." I remember the disdain they expressed and demonstrated for "city boys" and "pencil necks," and the respect that was only earned by fighting (but not necessarily winning). Underlying the hostility toward city boys ( a category I could easily have fallen into except for the fact that I had spent my younger-than-eight-years-old days in those piney woods) was a very subtle feeling of unworthiness and inferiority fed by an often correct suspicion that the city boys thought they were better than "us," but were soft-handed and obviously out of their element in the piney woods. We felt outclassed verbally, but superior physically, so when words and insults failed, fists (and worse) were resorted to. A sad, but true vignette. . . |
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| The Beatles – Another Girl Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Not a historically significant song, nor one with a deep meaning, but it's lyrically clean, crisp, and actually quite a good song. |
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| The Beatles – Another Girl Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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MissCharlie: not to be unkind, but if you don't care for the Beatles, why are you visiting their song lyrics? The song may well be somewhat bitter, but it's a dynamite song! |
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| Bob Seger – Turn The Page Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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. . .atmospheric, evocative, compelling, all adjectives applicable to this Bob Seger gem. I've experienced the same sort of feelings on the road, especially the hostile reception to longhairs, although mine was in the rural south of the 60s and 70s. As for Metallica's version, it's clear that they loved the song too, and a cover version is often an homage to the original artist, and - especially - to the one who wrote the song. As for which one is the best, as a previous poster said, it's apples and oranges. . . but I nearly always prefer hearing a song interpreted by the one who wrote it, and Bob's one of the best rock storytellers . . . |
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| Bob Seger – Night Moves Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Living in the past is something Bob does a lot in his songs; but I don't think he's remembering it as being better. In this song, he's recalling fondly what may have been his first love, although he doesn't call it love or categorize what they shared as love. Undeniably, however, there's a note of melancholy in it, especially when he muses about waking to the sound of thunder, "how far off, I sat and wondered; started humming a song from 1962. . ." Great song... |
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| Bob Seger – Still The Same Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Interesting! so he said it was about his father. . . from the wryly written and very intimate lyric, my lady and I had thought the song might have even possibly been about Bob himself. |
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