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| Linda Ronstadt – Somewhere Out There Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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This song is based partially from Beethoven's Pathetique no. 8 2nd movement which has the beauty of a night sky. This song is distinct yet describes the romance of certain moonlit nights whether shared with someone or alone because you sense you're not alone and someone does love you. And I can't help but wonder if Beethoven had such a feeling walking at night and if perhaps he would have liked these lyrics too. He certainly seemed to be drawn to Moonlght (Sonata no. 14)
Walking under the heavens late when most have quieted down and gently submitted to the starry beckoning to dream, this song helps so much because, the vaulted sky is the source of all love and this One Love differentiates as it descends into all the human kinds of love and all our human kinds of wishes ascend to the Glory that is perfect fulfillment. So, if you're out there, please don't be afraid. It's love, but as you wish it to be. |
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| Nat King Cole – It's Only A Paper Moon Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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This IS a really cute and sweet song. It also makes me feel sentimental, a little freaky and sad because it feels like these lyrics are about the nature of Creation and although we are made in His image we don't love enough and so have created virtual reality and what is there to believe in that? |
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| The Beatles – I Am the Walrus Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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As others have said this song seems to be based on Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus And The Carpenter" and one question about this poem has been how sincere the walrus is when he says "I weep for you" and "I deeply sympathize" (after tricking the oysters and eating them.) So it seems fair to wonder about The Beatles' sincerity as also suggested by various posts. As for the comment about Humpty Dumpty, and the eggman, maybe it's a comment about the old British cannon called Humpty Dumpty and a comment about religion (Humpty Dumpty was by St. Mary's Church and notice the word play of "cannon" and "canon." but, whatever it may mean we've all been on the fence about something and if we do build a wall, we have a barrier. That is how I see this song. It's like a drug barrier that closed off the gray matter of the brain leaving only residual fragments streaming in the white. The Beatles have done immeasurably better than this. |
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| Whitney Houston – So Emotional Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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This and How Will I Know are my favorite Whitney songs. She sang with such a digital clarity it was as if the radio suddenly got upgraded when one of her songs came on. She was collectively invented to be a pop princess but, she felt more in touch with her Newark tough girl roots. Thing is, the sweet lilt she would get in her voice showed her goodness and nobility despite some of her life circumstances. The drugs were like a spell easing her from a beauty a little too hard to face sometimes. My heart goes out to Dione Warwick and Aretha Franklin-every one who loved her. Rest well dear princess. |
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| Josh Groban – You Are Loved (Don't Give Up) Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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It is such a joy to hear a classically trained voice sing a contemporary song. Whether this song is about The Divine, Atlas singing to the Pleiades or simply Josh I think the angels sigh regardless. I just heard it twice in three days for the first time and there were no glotises, no vocal fry, no artificial "vocal enhancements" save microphoning and balancing his natural resonance in the studio environment. (Not that there isn't a place for that at times) In short, there were no flavor of the month vocal tricks other singers often mimic off each other. He just purely and beautifully creates a true intimacy rather than a faux familiarity. Oh Josh, say you mean it, say you do! |
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| Peter, Paul and Mary – Puff (The Magic Dragon) Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Whether this song is about Marijuana (more likely Opium of Heroin since that's known as dragon and never being able to match the ecstacy of the first experience chasing the dragon) or loss of innocence or Vietnam (what an incredible post!) I think the answer is yes in the same way that to Peter, Paul or Mary will be received affirmatively to The True. It's really a question of how we conceptualize wonder and things that do not reconcile with the brain.I mean, maybe Puff is a an imaginative little boy's kite with string sealing wax and tail and a puff of air is all it takes to make the magic happen. And he made so many or kept revising or adding on to his great dragon,he was nicknamed "Jackie Paper" it doesn't matter because the irreconcilable is an invitation for collaboration with the Universe rather than getting lost within the maze or the mind or scared to venture out of it. When I was little and learned this song I was told it was about "Nessie" and whether she is or isn't is still an open question. Gong Xi Fa Cai! Gong Hey Fat Choy! |
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| Al Stewart – Time Passages Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I think this is a brilliant song and I think Lewis Carroll would have liked it; maybe even some scientists and William James too. And I'm willing to bet there is a mathematically equivalent expression of it. It's kind of like each decision you make veering off to a new direction for your life path like the tracks of that last train he's going to ride. You could say it's like Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken except it isn't because, the chooser goes both ways on alternate planes.(I didn't come up with this alternate universe idea but, I can't remember the scientist who did.) But, I do say, there is no solid past or memory as it becomes as option filled as the future and as he reaches his hand as the girl comes towards him he once used to know, he's all alone because his track and her track crossed again but on different planes so they know each other yet never met because, it's only time and like night flows like a river. |
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| Adele – Set Fire to the Rain Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Just going by the lyrics, it is clear Adele is influenced greatly by Carole King's
'You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman" Further reflection makes me wonder if we ever could have discovered Adele without Carole King laying out a path. I would go even further to say that Adele through "Rolling in the Deep", "Someone Like You" and now in this song has shown us that to be loved as a natural woman has been her dearest and unanswered wish. There is imagery of rain (Indian symbolism for lovemaking) fire (Indian purification for reincarnation) which basically comes down to the impossibility of her being loved sincerely in her former ego state and her desire for rebirth. Rain and fire would create smoke and smoke and mirrors are illusion. Her cryptic descriptions point more to her speaking of her relationship with her ego self than someone else as she starts to realize they were responding to what she was transmitting and in dealing with this she may be truly loved as the natural woman. Fear not she will emerge more beautiful than before. |
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| Bruno Mars – It Will Rain Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I really like Bruno Mars. It's easy to see who or what might have influenced him (Michael Jackson, and for this song a blues tune called Aint No Sunshine When She's Gone) yet he still manages to feel authentic because all of his dramatic passion sounds sincere. His quirky off balance imagery; if you ever leave me baby, leave some morphine at my door works because he has a sort of desperate sensitivity/streetwise gallantry that is missing from other urban drawing artists. Also, his arrangements show an ingenious sophistication despite their simplicity. Go Bruno1 |
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| Adele – Someone Like You Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Rolling in the Deep was like a war dance with Native American sounding percussion. This song more like ballet. Her certainty is gone and she just begins musically to accept the possibility that what she'd found was her ego's conception of love; not romantic love itself. So, she sees a haze to her identity and everything she ever thought was clear. She's afraid and begs not to be forgotten because it was so true for her yet it couldn't have been true if it didn't last so, she offers herself upon a musical backdrop of grace and slowly, slowly will come to discover that this grace and delicacy is truly her and so she will become and truly love and authentically be loved for the vulnerable woman she is not the facade of a driving, assuming false image. |
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| Adele – Someone Like You Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Rolling in the Deep was like a war dance with Native American sounding percussion. This song more like ballet. Her certainty is gone and she just begins musically to accept the possibility that what she'd found was her ego's conception of love; not romantic love itself. So, she sees a haze to her identity and everything she ever thought was clear. She's afraid and begs not to be forgotten because it was so true for her yet it couldn't have been true if it didn't last so, she offers herself upon a musical backdrop of grace and slowly, slowly will come to discover that this grace and delicacy is truly her and so she will become and truly love and authentically be loved for the vulnerable woman she is not the facade of a driving, assuming false image. |
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