| Los Lobos – One Time One Night Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I love this song, first heard it in Colors back in the day "Look at me, Pac Man!" I sing it every time I drive through East Los. |
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| Neko Case – Deep Red Bells Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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from a 2009 article in the ny times "The foundations of Case’s music are still – somewhere down there, almost subterranean – country and indie rock, but for some time now her melodies have been growing more complex, the instrumentations more varied and ambitious, the modulations more surprising, the lyrics more imagistic, to the point, sometimes, of surreal impenetrability: Who led you to this hiding place? Whose lightning threads spun silver tongues? The red bells beckon you to ride, A handprint on the driver’s side. “Deep Red Bells,” from “Blacklisted” This is one of Case’s most memorable compositions. An admirer of hers, the musical polymath T Bone Burnett, says that he heard her sing it at the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles some years ago, “and I don’t think I’ve ever heard a voice that sounded like that before. It was so full! I don’t know of another woman who has that same fullness and power.” Case did in this instance divulge one reason that this song may make such an impression – live or on “Blacklisted.” “It’s based on the Green River killer,” she says. “When I was a kid in Tacoma, we were all scared all the time. I actually carried a knife to school with me. The ‘you’ in the song is one of his victims. They were all prostitutes, but we didn’t know that. They could have been anybody; they could have been us.” When you know this, “hiding place” becomes pretty ominous, and “silver tongues” may allude to the way the killer – Gary Ridgway – used sweet talk and photographs of his son to lull his victims into trusting him." |
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| John Lennon – Mother Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Per The Beatles Bible http://www.beatlesbible.com/1958/07/15/julia-lennon-dies/ "On 15 July 1958, when John was 17, Julia died on Menlove Avenue shortly after leaving Mimi's house, while crossing the road to get to a bus stop. She was struck by a car driven by a drunk off-duty policeman, PC Eric Clague, who was a learner driver. He was acquitted of all charges and later left the police force to become a postman." |
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