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Leonard Cohen – Bird on the Wire Lyrics

12 years ago

Hmm, seems like a very personal song that channels all the great challenges of humanity. I would say it's one of those classics that people can relate to themselves. We all try to be different. We're all birds on wires, that's the nature of modernity. We are all free, but we are confined. Actually, I think the song might be sad, but it is also movingly so. It's like an old gospel song, where you just feel this huge release, and the way he sings it reminds me of that. It's a song about redemption. We all fuck up, but we can make it up. It's about feeling out of luck and down, but what we can find of ourselves through the remains. I don't think people can understand it, unless they have felt that way, but all good poetry means something different to every person.

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Grateful Dead – High Time Lyrics

13 years ago

It's about two souls that are intertwined, perhaps part fantasy and part reality. The reality is that they're broken and it's complicated. When he needs someone she's there, but maybe when he says, "i was having a high time living the good life," he's referring to drugs. When he's not high, she's the one he goes to. Seems perhaps they've known each other for a while and the relationship is deeper than just sexual. The song is so intimate and beautiful. Just so beautiful. Not even sure what it's about, but it does seem contradictory. I guess he wants his cake and to eat it too. He wants all of the goods of a relationship without the work, just when he's lonely. I personally like to think of it as a song about a deeper connection that could be everything, but for whatever reason it's just not happening. I have only a couple of soul connections, neither of them are necessarily sexual, but I've thought sometimes maybe they should be or could be. I've thought, why can't this happen, it could all be so perfect, but it never does. No one makes a move and we go through seeing one another go through our troubles separately, when we could be together, but not all connections are meant to be that way. You can be patient, but sometimes waiting isn't worth it and you just have to try to move on even though that person will always mean a great deal to you.

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Link 80 – Better Than Shit Lyrics

13 years ago

I think the song is definitely about parents and the establishment. I used to listen to this song all the time when I was a teenager. I didn't like the rules or like having to be boxed in with other people around me who were always trying to get you to conform or clean up your act or be who they want you to be. Punk rock and ska were a great outlet for how fucked up everything was and still is. Then you grow up and you find out adulthood isn't that much different. People are always trying to get you to conform to their ideals or their ideas of who or how you should be. That's what a lot of punk rock was about, kids dissatisfaction with growing up in a society that supposedly respects individualism, but is really constantly trying to conform you into this person who is respectable. A lot of people will act like they're doing you a favor when they try to conform you, but usually they are just hypocrites. Many people also act one way when it benefits them, but when it doesn't benefit them, you realize that they just used you. This happened a lot when I was a teen, and I always felt like this growing up in SF.

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Fleetwood Mac – Dreams Lyrics

13 years ago

I think this song is really universal...often women think that a man will miss what he had, even if it's not true, it's a woman's nature to care. It makes sense that men aren't as sensitive in that way usually, and it sounded like she had more hope than Lindsey did. She's living in her fantasy, which is why it's called "Dreams." She wants to be a part of his future, his hopes, but it will never happen because he won't let it. The whole relationship, the whole idea that it could ever work out, is all but a dream, a fantasy in her mind. Fantasies rarely pan out...and even if he's lonely, it doesn't mean he's going to want to be with her. In the end, there is redemption even though he broke her heart and will never mend it. She still forgives him and loves him. She's aware that even if he realizes it was a mistake, it doesn't mean he'll want her back.

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Townes Van Zandt – Columbine Lyrics

13 years ago

It's about letting yourself be free. A Columbine is a fancy buttercup (Townes also spent a good amount of time in the city in Colorado.) The flower is a symbol for how fragile and momentary life is. One second you're alive, the next second you're plucked. No matter what you're going to die, so why waste any time? Why waste time on all the fancy pleasures when we know they are false and useless in the end?

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Two Gallants – The Hand That Held Me Down Lyrics

13 years ago

This song reminds me of a guy who was bad for me, but he had a good heart. He was just damaged goods and I was part of the damage. In the end, he kept getting caught in his web of destruction, and I would always defend his honor as a friend until it dragged me down so hard I hit bottom. I was his only friend, but he couldn't hold it together, and I was reminded of this song, "Could you be the hand that held me down? When I was sick with common sense And now your statuettes are all torn down There's no-one left for you to lean against." The whole time this person is leaning on you, but they've pulled the rug out from under you and it doesn't make any sense to you, because you were the only one there for them. Basically, they try to hold on to you by making you feel like shit about yourself. Really sick and twisted!

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Two Gallants – Despite What You've Been Told Lyrics

13 years ago

I think it's about being on a string of rebounds. Many of us have been there or have felt this way. Maybe we do care about this person, maybe they care about us, but we're not sure, and we feel jaded. People we date just won't work out, so we have to keep searching and searching and through the threads of people we leave debris. Sometimes we're the debris and it feels soulless. Even though we feel soulless now, all things come in full circle...

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Two Gallants – Broken Eyes Lyrics

13 years ago

It reminds me of an old country ditty...I think it's about being out on the road, but wanting to be faithful that the relationship is going to last. It's the feeling when your in a relationship and you think it'll never end no matter where and with whom you're with, that person is always with you. He knows he'll be back home eventually, and even though he might regret these feelings in the future, this is his ode to his beautiful maiden.

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Johnny Thunders And The Heartbreakers – It's Not Enough Lyrics

13 years ago

Perhaps it's about someone he really cared for who had a lot of money and could afford great, fancy things, but in the end it wasn't enough because it was loveless. Or maybe it is meant to be through the eyes of one of these rich Wall Street sophisticate types in New York who just throw all the cash around with dazzle, but in the end it's not enough. The human condition, or the condition of being an "American". By not having enough he might mean the opposite, always wanting more. Still, he croons like it's a song about being brokenhearted, and so I wonder if it is both. Love the song and the lyrics. The way he sings, "i still feel like hell, it's not enough" makes me cringe. It shakes my soul for sure.

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