| Warren Zevon – Searching For A Heart Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This song is a clear contradiction, in Warren's style. He's been waiting for his soulmate for his whole life. His sole marriage and subsequent divorce makes it unclear whether he actually found this, though he admits in an interview (on "Preludes") that fiction and nonfiction are blurred in most of his songs. While waiting for a soulmate, though, Warren is "searching everyone" for a heart...or enjoying himself like Jim Morrison. |
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| Warren Zevon – Backs Turned Looking Down the Path Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I'm stupid to have overlooked this a moment ago, but this song is not unlike David Gray's "Indeed I Will" or Steve Winwood's "Back in the High Life." In his later years, Warren did a cover of the latter song, to a very different sort of style than Steve. Definitely worth checking out. | |
| David Gray – Full Steam Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Why can't this song be about life, instead of a national, personal, or other crisis? I think we're handling a standard couple, or family, or group of people that are simply coming to grips with something that was previously sidestepped or denied. Being awake at 3am makes me think of love lost, and perhaps that which is seen coming is another lover. The song reminds me of a less dark version of Warren Zevon's "She's Too Good for Me," though that song is hardly well-veiled. |
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| David Gray – Alibi Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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The relationship of this song to Babylon is not unlike that of the relationship of U2's Running to Stand Still to Bullet the Blue Sky, in my mind. While I personally doubt that these songs are about drug use specifically (though his Friday night enfant is never specified, and though the evidence toward the song referring to cocaine is strong), it's clear that there is a burst of some level of emotion at the beginning of the story and a level of coming-down at the end. I always assumed that the "chemicals running through [his] bloodstream" are adrenalin, or caffeine, or perhaps alcohol, or maybe not chemicals at all but instead the personification of the rush of emotion that comes all at once in these sorts of situations. |
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| Warren Zevon – Backs Turned Looking Down the Path Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Maybe this is a song about the true nature of love, not far outside Warren's usual writings. Instead of seeing, say, one's wedding day outside the context of where he's been, he sees it as a redemption from the past (perhaps alluding to themes from a number of his own songs, including Searching for a Heart, She's Too Good For Me, and others). TheThornBirds is right -- this is an honest song about love, yet no less beautiful than Wonderful Tonight or any of the other classics. |
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