| Elvis Costello – Alison Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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This is Elvis being very sarcastic. He meets an old girlfriend who has the apparent perfect life with a new partner. She is not happy to see him (you were not impressed). She had a fling with an acquaintance of his years ago, a line which is there just to show how she was never really committed to him (I heard you let that little friend of mine, take off your party dress). (I don't know if you were loving some 'body', I only know it isn't mine) is a play on words. As is (My Aim Is true). It means both things. 1. I am an honest guy. 2. I'd like to shoot you. Such is the beauty of the lyric. The guy she finally married is an obnoxious twat, and very full of himself, who (took all he could take). She is so caught up in having the perfect life from the outside, that she spouts crap, and he just wishes she would stop embarrassing herself (sometimes I wish that i could stop you from talking when I hear the silly things that you say). He then heavily repeats the line 'My Aim Is True', just incase anyone did not get the double entendre the first time around. Marvelous song. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Walk Like A Man Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| The song seems to be about his father, and the emotion of his wedding brings it to the surface. It sounds as if it could be his second wedding. He recalls the first in the first verse, then the second verse hints at relationships going sour (will they ever look so happy again?). He then laments the lessons he has had to learn as a result. And he looks to his father as a figure of strength to inspire him to sort his own life out, and walk like a man. | |
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