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| Paul Simon – Slip Slidin' Away Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Definitely one of my favorite Paul Simon songs - so philosophical and just wholly worthy perspective on it all. It is depressing, but so is life often times. |
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| Paul Simon – Still Crazy After All These Years Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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The lyrics listed are not the lyrics - but anyway "...four in the morning, crapped out, yawning, longing my life away...I'll never worry, why should I? It's all gonna fade" (and the music through that line and just after) - fucking great stuff! |
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| Bob Dylan – House of the Rising Sun (The Animals cover) Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I think it's about addiction, particularly in that it makes specific reference to the father being a drunk and the house of the rising sun is somewhere addicts live and the protagonist is headed back there because of being doomed to addiction. Prison doesn't make sense because you don't go there of your own volition. |
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| Bob Dylan – Don't Think Twice, It's All Right Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I used to play and sing this song unprofessionally so I got acquainted with it personally. I think it's really just a gripe - you didn't work at it, even though you said you loved me, so ... later, and this is how that felt (you suck, basically, but whatever, I'm outta here). |
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| The Rolling Stones – Dead Flowers Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I have no idea what these lyrics mean, but I used to sing it to my Grandfather's car which was given to me at 17 and had a bad head gasket which meant it might or might not turn over (or possibly something else was causing that problem - I'm not a mechanic), but it was perfect song for that situation, it seemed. |
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| The Rolling Stones – No Expectations Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I've loved this song since it soothed me on my first acid trip in some nasty old trailer full of strange young things in the 80s. "No expectations" to me suggests total acceptance and release. I love the way the piano trills off at the end like a bird flying away. The lyrics are full of gems - "as I watch you leaving me, you pack my piece of mind" - just phenomenal. Like this atrocity is occuring, but, fuck it, basically. |
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| Bob Dylan – Ballad of a Thin Man Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I don't think anyone can claim to know what any song lyrics are ultimately "about", particularly not Dylan's lyrics, but personally, this song always comes to mind when my general experience is confusing, nothing makes sense, chaos seems to be taking hold, etc. And, just like the lyrics suggest, this can happen no matter how learned, sophisticated, engaged, experienced, happening, etc., etc. whatever you are, and possibly, those things even only exacerbate the potential for the feeling of the poor "freak" (i.e., everyman) at the center of this situation. It's existentially about the fact that there is no particular "reality" and we are ever alone in recognition of that fact. And, now, I'll say it for you - Harumph! |
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