| Stone Temple Pilots – Interstate Love Song Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I never really listened deeply to the lyrics. The prominent guitar theme I interpreted as the sound of some kind of freedom, like that of the open road (interstate), and an end to something bad, like "it's really over, and that's good." | |
| The Black Crowes – Welcome to the Goodtimes Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This seems like a sarcastic "Welcome to the Good Times" song. When you're young and dream of reaching goals, you can't account for the effort and pain that it will take to reach them. For example, you're prepared, work hard and with a fair amount of luck your big dreams come true, but other than not having to worry about money, it totally sucks because you have no life because everybody needs you now that you're important. I'd call that "Welcome to the Good Times - - jokes on you." Hopefully one day you escape with some of the spoils but none of the burden and start anew and find happiness. |
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| Everclear – Santa Monica Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I agree with ConfusingPhilosophy's post on 4-22-2010 describing the song as an homage to the Southern California Ideal. To add a bit, SoCal including Santa Monica is generally so congested and money-focused that none of this carefree Ideal is really left anymore, and it was probably gone long before the media would care to have you know. For an adult who needs to work in some way for a living, life in LA has more in common with New York than it does with some fantasy tropical existence. I can relate very well to wanting to swim out past the breakers and watch the world die even though at the time in the 90's I had a very lucrative career, but one that kept me as a slave to the opportunity with no known end in sight (it eventually ended ok). In the singer's case he was perhaps a slave to any combination of addiction, his past, a bad relationship, or at least the demands of his record contract. A great song that stands the test of time. |
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