| Michelle Shocked – Memories of East Texas Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I like this song very much. On the first reading/listening you get a complete view of what East Texas is, but on the second reading/listening, you realize this is more of a "Bildungsroman", a "coming of age" song... "Learning to drive" refers to "learning to live" among people that are not really open-minded. |
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| Leonard Cohen – One of Us Cannot Be Wrong Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I'm new to this site, so I'm a bit shy, but nevertheless, here are my thoughts about that wonderful song. It's no wonder the candle is green, because it's the color of jealousy, and it has to be thin (has anyone heard about a big fat GREEN candle?)because jealousy is a mean feeling. I feel there's a gradation between all the strophes. In the first one he talks about sex, about his body, which is now "free" becaus she's left him. But still he feels the (moskito) bites of jealousy upon his skin.To take his revenge, he tortures - much like the moskitoes torture his body - the see-through dress she used to wear to make men fall for her. The shoes don't mean much to me, except that her feet were small, which added to her sex-appeal, and that it is perhaps some kind of fetishism. In the second strophe, he willingly goes to a doctor, to show him his heart. Here we're talking about feelings. But the good doctor gets obessed with the lady as well, and it causes his downfall. The third strophe is about a saint, who is by the way a bit down to earth because he says "that the duty of lovers is to tarnish the Golden Rule". This is about sanctity, about spirit, but this higher grade of feelings doesn't help either since the saint ends up drowned and "drooling", that is reduced to a "normal" kind of man. Now the Eskimo. To me he's just a man who came into contact with the lady... She lives in "a blizzard of ice", and she freezes any man she encounters. He met her - he became an Eskimo. He was not THAT involved with her - he just "took" a movie of "her", not of "them". Seeing her take off her clothes was too much, he never recovered, and neither did the others who came near to that lady. Now, which one is not wrong? |
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| Melanie Safka – Brand New Key Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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People may say I've got a wicked mind, but beyond the lecture of "when things were simple", I've always felt the brand new pair of roller skates referred to "a brand new pair of knockers", and that the "brand new key" was a phallic symbol... To me it's a song about teenager sexuality (she doesn't drive a car because she's too young), she's been around but she's focused on a childhood friend and she would like to experiment her brand new feminity on him. It bothers her when she hears "he's home, but not alone". |
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| Joan Baez – The House Carpenter Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| The lyrics I know say "our galleon ship". | |
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