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| Gas House Gang – Beethoven 5.1 Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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The Gas House Gang was a barbershop quartet. They sang this song to the tune of Beethoven's Symphony number 5, movement 1, hence the title. |
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| Wilco – One Wing Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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He tried to satisfy his mate by doing what she wanted or copying her. Thus, they acted as one instead of as a pair. While this unity is often held up as an ideal to which a couple should aspire, being too close can cripple as relationship. The metaphor of a bird being unable to fly with only one wing illustrates the point that two distinct, complementary and even sometimes opposing, individuals are necessary for a relationship to take off. |
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| Peter Gabriel – San Jacinto Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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There's a San Jacinto Peak near Los Angeles, California. It's quite a spectacular view from the bottom or the top: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jacinto_Peak. Maybe Peter Gabriel is referring to this mountain. I was one of those Scouts who climbed it. He seems to be describing the genocide of Native Americans. We should remember what one civilization can do to another when people think of themselves as belonging to "us" vs. "them" rather than as humans. Genocide is still happening all over the world; we humans still haven't learned to generalize and act on this simple lesson from history. Maybe we need to teach this explicitly in schools since songs like this, moving though they are, don't seem to get through all our thick skulls. |
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